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Academic festivals provide engaging and diverse learning opportunities

Academic festivals provide engaging and diverse learning opportunities

By The Ithacan • January 30, 2020
Diverse speakers fill gaps in the curriculum and allow students to see how much industries have changed. 
Steven Banks, assistant professor in the Department of Performance Studies at Ithaca College, and three other musicians were chosen to receive three-year comprehensive management contracts. This contract offers Banks performing opportunities at recital halls and with orchestras in New York City and Washington, D.C. 

Music professor wins international performance award

By Cody Taylor, Senior Writer • January 29, 2020
Steven Banks, assistant professor at Ithaca College, is the first saxophonist in 59 years to earn a place on the YCA roster.
La Jerne Cornish, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, announced that Karl Paulnack, dean of the School of Music, and Diane Gayeski, dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications, will be leaving their positions at the end of the 2019–20 academic year.

College begins national searches for new deans

By Alexis Manore, Assistant News Editor • October 23, 2019
Ithaca College is beginning two national searches for new deans of the School of Music and the Roy H. Park School of Communications.
The Ithacan is highlighting exceptional seniors from each of the five schools on campus who have done exemplary work in their major and across campus throughout their four years at Ithaca College.

Senior Spotlights: School of Music

By Alexis Manore, Staff Writer • May 1, 2019
The Ithacan is highlighting seniors from each of the five schools on campus who have done exemplary work throughout their time at the college.
Harpist and IC affiliate Anna O’Connell performed examples of therapeutic harp music during the Community-Based Learning Spotlight Event hosted by the Office of Civic Engagement and the Center for Faculty Excellence on April 4 in McHenry Lounge in the Whalen Center for Music. The event reintroduced the Music as Medicine Project and highlighted students’ work with the initiative.

Staying Sharp: Service project links music to memory

By Angela Weldon, Assistant Life & Culture Editor • April 13, 2016
The Music as Medicine Project, a new initiative at the college highlights the therapeutic power of music and the importance of service-learning.
From left, seniors Kaitlyn DeHority, Benjamin Allen and Victoria Boellmembers — members of music group add 5 — and Mnozil Brass member Leonhard Paul receive feedback from Paul during a master class April 4.

Students take notes from Austrian music group

By Silas White, Staff Writer • April 6, 2016
Ithaca College student brass groups took a master class April 4, where they received feedback on their performances from Leonhard Paul, a member of Austrian brass septet Mnozil Brass.
Performers form a human centipede during rehearsals for “Semele,” MainStage Theatre’s first show of the semester, directed by R.B. Schlather.

Ithaca College takes on opera in “Semele”

By Alexandria Kemp, Contributing Writer • February 17, 2016
Ithaca College's School of Music and MainStage Theatre will be presenting the first show of the semester, "Semele," a baroque opera by G.F. Handel.
Members of ICU Sound Works rehearse for their first performance at 8:15 p.m. Oct. 30 in Ford Hall.

Music schools collaborate for new performance group

By Cecilia Morales, Staff Writer • October 27, 2015
With the help of professional new music performance group Ensemble X, ICU Sound Works, which will hold its first performance at 8:15 p.m. Oct. 30 in Ford Hall, integrates students, faculty and professional players.
Matthew Inkster conducts Ithaca Colleges Symphonic Band, which will perform Oct. 5.

Newcomers conduct three of campus’s four concert bands

By Silas White, Staff Writer • September 30, 2015
Last year marked the departure of three established professors from the School of Music. Now, of the four major bands on campus, three have new directors: Concert Band, Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble.

Preview: Music school faculty to perform showcase

By Maura Aleardi, Staff Writer • February 9, 2015
Ithaca College’s School of Music faculty will perform in the After Dinner Mint faculty showcase recital at 7 p.m. Feb. 9 in the Hockett Family Recital Hall.

December graduates gather to celebrate commencement

By Maura Aleardi, Staff Writer • December 17, 2014
On Dec. 13, Ithaca College celebrated the commencement of the December graduates.
Disney in Concert Recap

Disney in Concert Recap

By Emma McQuade and Vicky Wolak • February 20, 2014
Get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Tale as Old as Time: Disney in Concert," presented by the Ithaca College School of Music and the Voices Multicultural Chorus.
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