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.

The Ithaca College Concert Band will give a free concert entitled “Bloc Party” on Wednesday, October 7 at 8:15 pm in Ford Hall in the James J. Whalen Center for Music.  Mark Fonder will conduct music about or from Russia and eastern Europe, including music by Kozhevnikov, Husa, Tschesnekov, Gulyas, Gliere, Cesarini, and Doss.

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.

The Ithaca College Chamber Orchestra will feature faculty clarinetist Richard Faria in an upcoming free concert on Friday, May 1, at 8:15 p.m. in Ford Hall on the Ithaca College campus.

Jeffery Meyer will lead the orchestra in Stravinsky's "Danses Concertantes" and Haydn's Symphony No. 99. Faria will be the soloist for the orchestration by Luciano Berio of a Brahms sonata for clarinet.

Kulmusik, the Ithaca College School of Music contemporary chamber ensemble, performed at the 20th International New Music Festival, "Sound Ways," in St. Petersburg, Russia, this past fall. The concert took place at Glinka Hall of the Philharmonic, one of St. Petersburg's most beautiful and prestigious halls.

The ensemble combines six faculty members and eight students under...