Ithaca College

The Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Jeffery Meyer, begins the concert season early this year with two masterworks by Beethoven and Brahms on Saturday, September 20, at 8:15 p.m. in Ford Hall. The concert will be free and open to the public.

Beethoven's "Leonore Overture Number 3," with its famous offstage trumpet calls, and Brahms' third symphony comprise the program.

The Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra, comprised of approximately 90 to 100 musicians, is dedicated to performing symphonic repertoire from the baroque era through the twentieth century, as well as contemporary works of our time.

The symphony orchestra presents five to eight concerts per year, including the annual Concerto Concert, at which winners of the school's annual Concerto Competition perform with the orchestra.

The orchestra has collaborated with many of today's most prominent composers, including Joan Tower, Jennifer Higdon, Chen Yi, Karel Husa, and Michael Gandolfi. It has performed to high acclaim in Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York, the "Light in Winter" Festival in Ithaca, New York State School Music Association conferences, and New York University.