The Geneseo Chamber Singers and Spectrum Women’s Ensemble will join together on Dec. 6 at 3 p.m. in Doty Recital Hall for their second collaborative concert of the semester. The performance is free and open to the public.
The program will feature an eclectic mix of music from the early and high Renaissance, Cantata 147 of J.S. Bach ("Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”), seasonal music from colonial America, and a joyful mixture of American spirituals and folk tunes.
GENESEO, N.Y. – The Geneseo Jazz Ensemble will showcase "Jazz" and celebrate the history and spirit of an art form that has influenced all of American popular music during a concert Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. in the Doty Hall Recital Hall. The performance is free and open to the public.
Led by Music Department faculty member Mark Collins ’07, the group will present a variety of music styles that are popularly known as being in the genre. While doing so, the talented student musicians and soloists will be showcased.
Nine Geneseo students received 2015-17 scholarships this year through the Jewish Foundation for Education of Women-SUNY International Relations and Global Affairs Program. Back row (l to r) are Stella Oduro, Kiarra Monroe, Cynthia Medina, Ashley Hernandez and Cindy Lin. Front row (l to r) are Simone Weinmann, Antoinette Lubich-Claps, Nicola Mohan (2014-16 scholar), and Kami Smith.
Junior Brandon Gaylord is organizing a day-long leadership workshop on campus Dec. 4 for high school juniors and sophomores from seven area school districts.
GENESEO, N.Y. – Juniors and sophomores from seven area high schools are coming to the SUNY Geneseo campus Dec. 4 to experience a day-long leadership training program created by a Geneseo student focused on empowering tomorrow’s leaders.
SUNY Geneseo senior Jacquie Huben finished an All-America 29th place out of 280 runners to lead the Knights to second place out of 32 teams at the 36th NCAA Division III Women's Cross Country Championships hosted over the weekend by the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. The result was the team's second-highest finish ever at the national championship race and best since winning the title 10 years ago in 2005.
SUNY Geneseo President Denise A. Battles (left) presented alumni Joe '67 and Elaine '66 Bucci with the college’s Medal of Distinction Nov. 19. It’s the college’s highest honor recognizing exceptional professional achievement and contributions to society.
GENESEO, N.Y. – Ganie DeHart, Distinguished Teaching Professor and chair of SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Psychology, has been named the 2015 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching New York Professor of the Year.
GENESEO, N.Y. –– The Geneseo Department of Music is thrilled to present Geneseo Festival Chorus and Geneseo Symphony Orchestra in their performance of composer’s Haydn’s epic masterpiece, “The Creation” on Sunday Nov. 22 at 3:00 p.m. in Wadsworth Auditorium.
The concert will also feature soprano soloist Amy Cochrane, adjunct lecturer in music at Geneseo; tenor soloist Matthew Valverde, lecturer in music at Nazareth College and baritone Jorell Williams, who is a critically-acclaimed opera singer and theatrical performer.
GENESEO, N.Y. – Pier Gabrielle Foreman, the Ned B. Allen Professor of English and Professor of Black American Studies at the University of Delaware, will deliver this year’s Walter Harding Lecture Nov. 16 at SUNY Geneseo.
The lecture, titled “To Speculate Darkly: Slavery, Black Visual Culture and the Promises and Problems of Print,” begins at 7:30 p.m. in the college’s Doty Recital Hall and is free and open to the public.
GENESEO, N.Y. –– The Department of Theatre and Dance will present its first main stage production of the 2015-2016 season, Tina Howe’s “The Art of Dining,” from Nov. 11–15 in Brodie Hall’s Alice Austin Theatre.
Directed by Professor Randy Barbara Kaplan, the heartfelt comedy explores the interesting ways that individuals use eating not only as a means of nourishment, but as a means to satisfy both internal and external emotional goals like comfort and seduction.