ITHACA, NY — The Ithaca College Choir, conducted by Lawrence Doebler, will perform the world premiere of “Dreams in the Dust” by René Clausen at the 32nd annual Choral Competition Contest and Festival on Saturday, Nov. 13. Beginning at 7 p.m. in Ford Hall in the James J. Whalen Center for Music, the free event will also feature six high school choirs, each performing...

ITHACA, NY — The Ithaca College School of Music and the Syracuse Opera have announced a cutting-edge conductors’ training program for the study and performance of opera. Beginning in the 2010-2011 academic year, three graduate-level students from the School of Music will be selected annually as Syracuse Opera conducting fellows to study the operatic repertoire, languages and the...

ITHACA, NY — In keeping with the 2010–11 Ithaca College Concerts theme of ‘Collaborations,’ the New Zealand String Quartet and clarinetist James Campbell will combine their talents for a concert on Tuesday, Nov. 16. The second of three performances presented by Ithaca College Concerts, the concert will begin at 8:15 p.m. in Ford Hall in the James J. Whalen Center for...

ITHACA, NY — “Chopin the Dancer” — the fourth of five fall concerts to be performed at Ithaca College in celebration of the bicentennial of Frédéric Chopin’s birth — will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 9. Free and open to the public, the concert will begin at 8:15 p.m. in the Hockett Family Recital Hall in the James J. Whalen Center for Music....

ITHACA, NY — A new series of free concerts featuring the faculty of the Ithaca College School of Music will kick off on Tuesday, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m. in the Hockett Family Recital Hall in the James J. Whalen Center for Music. Designed to incorporate a variety of music in a single performance, the opening concert will include a duet for flute and guitar by Gnattali; Elizabethan music...