The Ithaca College Contemporary Chamber Ensemble will present a free concert  on Wednesday, November 4 at 8:15 pm in the Hockett Family Recital Hall in the James J. Whalen Center for Music.  Under the direction of Jeffery Meyer and Richard Faria, the ensemble combines faculty and student musicians for music of our time by Saariaho, Adès, and Stucky.  The second half of the concert will be Arnold Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire” led by graduate conductor Jesse Livingston and with sopranos Katie Cohen, Sarah Toth, and Ashley Carver.

Violinist Susan Waterbury will present a free recital at 4 p.m. on Sunday, November 1 in the Hockett Family Recital Hall at Ithaca College. Pianist Jeffery Meyer and narrator Mary Alice Dillman will collaborate. Besides the children’s classic “Ferdinand the Bull,” music of Ravel, Beethoven, and Lutoslawski is on the program.

The Ithaca College Chamber Orchestra will present a free concert on Friday, October 9 at 8:15 pm in Ford Hall.  Jeffery Meyer will lead the ensemble in Shostakovich’s “Chamber Symphony” and Haydn’s Symphony No. 103, known as the “Drum Roll.”

The Ithaca College Chamber Orchestra will open its season with a free concert in the intimate acoustics of the Hockett Family Recital Hall on Monday, September 21 at 7 pm. Conductor Jeffery Meyer will be joined by faculty colleagues Richard Faria, conductor; David Parks, tenor; and Alex Shuhan, French horn for Benjamin Britten’s “Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings.” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s serenade number 12, for wind octet, will round out the program.