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Heather Buchman, associate professor of music and director of the Hamilton College Orchestra, conducted Symphony Syracuse on Friday, Nov. 18, at the Syracuse Civic Center. A review that appeared in the Post-Standard the following day described her performance. “Buchman’s every gesture, every breath, was purposeful, and the Symphony Syracuse artists responded in kind, turning in a performance marked by precision as well as passion.”

Hamilton's Department of Music presents a Fall Performing Arts Weekend on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 21 and 22, with free concerts by the College Choir and College Hill Singers and Hamilton College Orchestra in Wellin Hall.

The Hamilton College Orchestra, conducted by Heather Buchman, will perform its final concert of the season on Saturday, April 30, at 8 p.m., at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

The Hamilton College Orchestra, conducted by Heather Buchman, will perform its winter concert on Thursday, Dec. 9, at 8 p.m., at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

The Hamilton College and Community Oratorio Society presented its winter concert on Nov. 30 in Wellin Hall. Directed by G. Roberts Kolb, the program celebrated the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann’s birth. Featured on the program were Schumann’s Missa Sacra, Nachtlied, and Scenes From Goethe’s Faust.

The Departments of Music and Dance and Movement Studies will offer a full schedule of free performances in Wellin Hall during the College’s Family Weekend, Friday, Oct. 29, and Saturday, Oct. 30.

The Hamilton College Orchestra, conducted by Heather Buchman, will perform its final concert of the season on Saturday, May 1, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

The Hamilton College Music Department hosted several esteemed musicians and conductors last week as part of a workshop that Heather Buchman, associate professor of music and director of the College Orchestra, instituted last year.

G. Roberts Kolb, conductor, and the Hamilton College and Community Oratorio Society and Orchestra celebrate the 200th anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn’s birth with a performance of his celebrated Oratorio, Elijah, on Tuesday, Dec. 1, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall.

The Hamilton music department is hosting the International Academy of Advanced Conducting after Ilya Musin, a conducting workshop with two renowned teachers who studied with the 20th century Russian pedagogue Ilya Musin, from Jan. 21 to Jan. 25. The Hamilton Orchestra will act as the host ensemble playing for the workshop. The final performance  will take place at noon on Sunday, Jan. 25, in Wellin Hall and is free and open to the public.