School of Music

Junior Recital: Katie Cohen, soprano

Senior Recital: Carami Hilaire, soprano

Faculty Recital: Susan Waterbury, violin

Jeffery Meyer, piano
Mary Alice Dillman, narrator
Music of Ravel, Beethoven, and Lutoslawski, with "Ferdinand, the Bull" for Speaker and Solo Violin by Alan Ridout.

Junior Recital: Lisa Meyerhofer, flute

Junior Recital: Drew Serafini, guitar

Guest Recital: Mirror Image, French horn duo

Michelle Stebleton and Lisa Bontrager, with Tomoko Kamanaru at the piano, will present works from their upcoming compact disc project, “Safari.” The concert will include commissions for the ensemble by Paul Basler, Ray Chase, and Larry Lowe, in addition to several opera arrangements by Ray Chase, which have been recorded on the ensemble’s recent compact disc release, “MirrorImage at the Opera,” on MSR Classics.

Pre-Concert Lecture: John Daniel Jenkins, theorist

Contemporary Ensemble

Richard Faria, Jesse Livingston, and Jeffery Meyer, directors
Kaija Saariaho: Lichtbogen
Thomas Adès; Les Barricades Misterieux
Steven Stucky: Ad Parnassum
Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire

U.S. Air Force Band of Liberty's Colonial Brass

Brass Choir, with guest brass musicians from Boynton Middle School

Keith Kaiser, conductor

Faculty Chamber Music: Ithaca Wind Quintet

Wendy Herbener Mehne, flute; Paige Morgan, oboe; Michael Galvan, clarinet; Lee Goodhew Romm, bassoon; Alex Shuhan, horn
Gyorgy Ligeti: Sechs Bagatellen
Paquito D'Rivera: Wapango
Anatoly Liadov: Eight Russian Folk Dances
Steven Stucky: Serenade for Wind Quintet

Family Weekend Concert: Concert Band and Vocal Jazz Ensemble

Mark Fonder and Lauri Robinson-Keegan, conductors. Tickets required. Tickets may be obtained: (1) by participation in one of the family weekend packages, information is mailed OR (2) students in the concert may obtain two free tickets at the office the week before the concert. Students without family members attending may share theirs with students needing more. In addition, after those with tickets are seated, there is usually room for people without tickets to be admitted.
Concert Band:
“Musical Storytime”
Percy Aldridge Grainger: The Gum-Sucker’s March
Carter Pann: Hold That Boy and Listen
Johan De Meij: The Wind in the Willows

Junior Recital: Elena Galvan, soprano

Rescheduled from 24 October

Senior Recital: Kristen Gobetz, voice

Junior Recital: Lydia Walrath, mezzo-soprano - Cancelled

Senior Recital: Ian Cruz, saxophone

Junior Recital: Erik Johnson, clarinet

Family Weekend Concert: Symphonic Band and Jazz Ensemble

Elizabeth Peterson and Mike Titlebaum, conductors. Tickets required. Tickets may be obtained: (1) by participation in one of the family weekend packages, information is mailed OR (2) students in the concert may obtain two free tickets at the office the week before the concert. Students without family members attending may share theirs with students needing more. In addition, after those with tickets are seated, there is usually room for people without tickets to be admitted.
Symphonic Band:
George Gershwin: An American in Paris
Frank Ticheli: Sanctuary
Eric Whitacre: Godzilla Eats Las Vegas

Family Weekend Choral Collage

Women's Chorale, Madrigal Singers, Chorus, and Choir. Lawrence Doebler and Janet Galvan, conductors. Tickets required. Tickets may be obtained: (1) by participation in one of the family weekend packages, information is mailed OR (2) students in the concert may obtain two free tickets at the office the week before the concert. Students without family members attending may share theirs with students needing more. In addition, after those with tickets are seated, there is usually room for people without tickets to be admitted.

Graduate Lecture/Recital: Sarah Plunkett, flute

Senior Recital: Katherine Penyak, voice

Faculty Chamber Music: Ithaca Brass

Frank Campos and Kim Dunnick, trumpets; Alex Shuhan, French horn; Harold Reynolds, trombone; Ed Diefes, tuba
Andre Previn: Four Outings
Irving Rosenthal: Three British Folk Songs
Maurice Ravel: Piece en forme de Habanera
Jan Sweelinck: Variations
Victor Ewald: Quintet No. 2

Junior Recital: Matteo Longhi, violin

Lecture by Heather Laurel: Ani DiFranco, Musician and Activist

Laurel will focus on Ani DiFranco's most recent political songs demonstrating how DiFranco's recording techniques, in conjunction with her musical, lyrical, and performative choices, embody DiFranco's musical-political persona.

Composition Premieres II

Flute Ensemble

Sarah Plunkett, director

Trombone Troupe

Charles DePaolo, conductor

Senior Recital: Margaret Flower, mezzo-soprano - Cancelled

Faculty Recital: Carol McAmis, soprano - Cancelled

Choral Composition Festival

Featuring the world premiere of Steven Stucky's "Gravity's Dream" by the Ithaca College Choir.
Participating High Schools: Niagara Wheatfield (NY), Westborough (MA), Ward Melville (NY), West Genesee (NY), Newark (NY), and Ithaca (NY). Includes the announcement of the Robert Campbell ’40, M.S. ’50 Endowed Choral Composition Prize winner.

Elective Senior Recital: Zachary Stadtmueller, piano

Junior Recital: Elizabeth Kane, French horn

Senior Recital: Maggie Gallagher, flute

Faculty Recital: Elizabeth Simkin, cello

Jennifer Hayghe, piano
Bartok: Roumainian Folk Dances
Currier: Aerialism
Schumann: Fantasiestueke
Debussy: Sonate

Faculty Chamber Music: Ariadne String Quartet - Cancelled

Elective Senior Recital: Michael DeWeaver, trumpet - Cancelled

Junior Recital: Samuel Bianco, tenor

Faculty Recital: Charis Dimaras, piano

Haydn Sonatas and Beethoven's "Appassionata"

Faculty Recital: Alexander Shuhan, French horn; Elizabeth Shuhan, flute; Jennifer Hayghe, piano

Music of Dana Wilson, Steven Winteregg, Paul Hindemith and Lowell Liebermann.

Opera Workshop

Brian DeMaris, director
Scenes from operas based on Beaumarchais' "Figaro" trilogy: "Barber of Seville,"
"Marriage of Figaro," and "La Mere Coupable," and also John Corigliano's "Ghosts of Versailles" and Massenet's "Cherubin," all sung in original languages. The complete story of of Figaro, Susannah, Cherubino, Countess Rosina, and Count Almaviva from the countess's first music lessons in "Barber of Seville" to the moment they find themselves facing the guillotine of the French Revolution in a cell with Marie Antoinette in "Ghosts of Versailles."

Chamber Orchestra

Jeffery Meyer, conductor
Susan Waterbury & Nicholas DiEugenio, violin soloists
Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Stravinsky: Concerto in E-flat (Dumbarton Oaks)
Schnittke: Moz-Art à la Haydn
Kodály: Dances of Galanta

Jazz Lab Ensembles

Mike Titlebaum and Tom Killian, directors