Ithaca College

The Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra will open its season with a free concert of music by Ithacan Steven Stucky, Ravel, and Berlioz on Saturday, October 3 at 8:15 pm in Ford Hall on the Ithaca College campus.  Jeffery Meyer will conduct the concert, which will feature Berlioz’s epic “Symphonie fantastique,” the “Mother Goose” suite by Maurice Ravel, and “Jeu de timbres for Orchestra,” composed in 2003 by Cornell composer Steven Stucky.

The Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra, comprised of approximately 90 to 100 musicians, is dedicated to performing symphonic repertoire from the baroque through the twentieth century, as well as contemporary works of our time. They present 5 to 8 concerts per year including the annual Concerto Concert, at which winners of the School's Annual Concerto Competition perform with the orchestra.  Guest conductors have included Daniel Hege of the Syracuse Symphony and Jose-Luis Novo of the Binghamton Philharmonic, and the orchestra has collaborated with many of today's most prominent composers including Joan Tower, Jennifer Higdon, Chen Yi, Karel Husa and Michael Gandolfi.  The ensemble has performed to high acclaim in Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York, the Ithaca "Light in Winter" Festival, the New York State School Music Association Conferences, and New York University.