The Department of Music will present "An Evening of Chamber Music" on Friday, April 21, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. This event is free and open to the public.
The performance will feature the world premiere of Visiting Assistant Professor Gabriel Ian Gould's Root Glen Dances and Hamilton senior Alex Taddei's Divertimento. The instrumental chamber ensembles, under the direction of Florent Renard-Payen and Dan Carno, will also perform works by James Boeringer (b. 1930), Louis Maurer (1789-1878), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791).
Student performers will include Mary Beth Day, Adele Paquin, Paul Bleiberg, Andrew Fulton, Yiyang Cao, Sarah Wissel, Katie Naughton, Sarah Prusasky, Alex Taddei, Jen Buttery, Yubo Lu, Alix Lamsa, Helen Lok, Heather Montana, Chelsea Bryant, Caryn Mickle, Lauren Steates, Heather Michael, Rachel Bennek, Mark Fitzsimmons, and Kaity Hill. Associate Professor of Music "Doctuh" Michael Woods and Jeff Stockham, lecturer in jazz trumpet, will also be featured.
Gabriel Ian Gould received his bachelor's degree from Bard College, where he studied with Joan Tower and Daren Hagen, and his M.M. and D.M.A. in composition from the University of Michigan, where he studied with William Albright and William Bolcom. He has been commissioned by the Albany and Ann Arbor Symphonies, the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra and the new music group Dogs of Desire. Root Glen Dances was commissioned for the students in the Hamilton College Chamber Music Program.
The composer writes: "The Root Glen is a wooded ravine on the campus of Hamilton College. Since 1850, the College has been planting an enormous variety of trees, shrubs, and flowers, in an ongoing effort to create a unique collection of specimens, some quite rare and distinguished. I have spent many hours in the Root Glen admiring not only the landscape but also many individual trees. The Glen in many ways represents my strongest feelings about the College and the campus. I chose five specific trees which would identify each of the movements of a standard dance suite and tried to associate each dance with the character of the tree."
All seating is general admission. For more information or tickets, call the box office at (315) 859-4331, 1-4 p.m. weekdays.
