Events

Kick off the 2025 academic year with a recital featuring Hamilton College faculty artists. Free admission. 

Art Under Pressure: Shostakovich Piano Trio & Weinberg Piano Quintet.  A program of chamber music for strings and piano focusing on music and Russian politics, inspired by current events.  Featured guests include Sar-Shalom Strong, piano; Shem Guibbory, violin; Edgar Tumajyan, violin; Andrey Tchekmazov, cello; and historian Alice Nakhimovsky. Free admission. 

Early Music ensemble The Sebastians present Inner Riches: Music by Biber, Erlebach, Rosenmüller, Schmelzer, and Vivaldi. Before Bach, a generation of German composers was creating music of startling depth, richness, and beauty—music that rarely makes it to the stage today. Featuring works by Rosenmüller, Biber, Schmelzer, and Erlebach, this concert dives into the darker, sweeter side of the baroque, where glorious five-part string textures shine with clarity and warmth. Come for a rare chance to hear this repertoire live—where every voice ma...

Chaeyoung Park has been praised as a passionate pianist who “does not play a single note without thought or feeling” (New York Concert Review). Embracing a broad range of classical music literature, her programs feature works ranging from the early French Baroque by Rameau, to Beethoven sonatas, to new music by living composers including South Korean classical composer Unsuk Chin. This concert is free and open to the public. More information at www.hamilton.edu/performingarts

Known as one of jazz’s most vibrant emerging artists, Owens delivers joyful, soul-stirring jazz that blends infectious rhythms with a powerful message of community and activism.  Tickets $20 for adults/$15 for senior citizens/$5 students. Tickets and information at www.hamilton.edu/performingarts

Dr Elena Nezhdanova, piano, presents  a concert of music written by award-winning women composers (past and present). The concert will feature sopranos Julia Ebner, Dr. Julianna Sabol, Olya Swart, and cellist Dr. Roman Placzek. This event is free and open to the public.  More information at www.hamilton.edu/performingarts. 

The Hamilton College Choir, Jazz Ensemble, and Choir present a shared program for Family Weekend. Free and open to the public. More information at www.hamilton.edu/performingarts.

The Department of Dance and Movement Studies presents their fall concert for student dancers plus faculty and guest choreographers. Free and open to the public. More information at www.hamilton.edu/performingarts.

The Department of Dance and Movement Studies presents their fall concert for student dancers plus faculty and guest choreographers. Free and open to the public. More information at www.hamilton.edu/performingarts.

A mainstay of the chamber music scene performing both classical and contemporary music for string quartet, the Jupiter String Quartet perform Haydn's Quartet in C Major, Op. 33 No. 3 “The Bird,: Salina Fisher's Heal,  selections from Florence Price's Five Folksongs in Counterpoint, and Schumann's Quartet in A minor, Op. 41 No. 1.  Tickets are $20 adult/$15 senior citizen/$5 student. Tickets and info at www.hamilton.edu/performingarts.