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Event Calendar
The Harpur Jazz Ensemble and the Harpur Studio Jazz Band are thrilled to announce a spectacular evening of music featuring acclaimed pianist, Nick Weiser!
Join us in the Chamber Hall of the Anderson Center at 7:30 pm for what promises to be an unforgettable joint concert. The program is stacked with high-energy original big band compositions and thrilling, new takes on classic repertoire.
Be sure to catch the afternoon concert featuring the Harpur Jazz Quartet and Nick Weiser at 1:30 pm in the Casadesus Recital Hall. It's the perfect warm-up for a full day of world-class music!
These events are proudly made possible by the Karen and Robert Pompi Jazz Artist Series Endowment.
Free Admission.
ARTIST BIO
Dr. Nick Weiser is a rare kind of musician—equally at home as a classically trained pianist, creative improviser, and master jazz practitioner, unified by a commitment to using music as a bridge between people and communities. A pianist, conductor, bandleader, composer, arranger, educator, and scholar, Weiser has built a career defined by artistic versatility and genuine connection. Raised in the small town of Dighton, Kansas, he followed his passion for music to the University of Kansas and later to the Eastman School of Music, where he earned his M.M. and D.M.A. in Jazz Studies under the mentorship of Harold Danko, Bill Dobbins, and other influential teachers.
Weiser has appeared throughout the United States and abroad, performing at the Santiago de Cuba International Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, Umbria Jazz Festival, the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival, New York City’s “Prez Fest,” and Carnegie Hall. His collaborative and sideman work continues to grow, with recent and regular performances alongside ensembles such as the Glenn Miller Orchestra, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, and the New York Voices. He has shared the stage with artists including Dick Oatts, Byron Stripling, Bob Brookmeyer, Christian McBride, and Peter Erskine, and recently premiered Dana Wilson’s Concerto for Jazz Piano and Wind Ensemble. As a recording artist, Weiser appears on albums by tubist Justin Benavidez, trumpeter Frank Gabriel Campos, and his own trio, i3o. His forthcoming 2026 solo piano release will reflect insights gathered during a full-year sabbatical supported by the 2024 John Stites Jazz Award, during which he studied with more than twenty-five of the living legends of jazz piano across the country.
A devoted educator, Weiser is the architect and director of the Jazz Studies program at the State University of New York at Fredonia, where he has served since the program’s founding in 2017. Under his leadership, Fredonia’s ensembles and students have earned six DownBeat Student Music Awards in the past seven years. He conducts the Fredonia Jazz Orchestra as well as the DownBeat award-winning Fredonia New Jazz Ensemble and Fredonia Jazz Flextet. His scholarship and creative activity were recognized in 2021 with SUNY Fredonia’s Hagan Young Scholar/Artist Award.
In the broader community, Weiser serves as President of the Fredonia Jazz Society, a nonprofit organization he helped establish to bring world-class jazz performances and educational opportunities to Western New York. Prior to joining the faculty at Fredonia, he taught at Ithaca College and Cornell University and has maintained an active private studio for many years.
Throughout all facets of his work—as performer, collaborator, educator, and organizer— Weiser remains guided by a belief in music’s power to elevate, inspire, and serve the communities that nurture it.
The Harpur Jazz Ensemble and the Harpur Studio Jazz Band are thrilled to announce a spectacular evening of music featuring acclaimed pianist, Nick Weiser!
Join us in the Chamber Hall of the Anderson Center at 7:30 pm for what promises to be an unforgettable joint concert. The program is stacked with high-energy original big band compositions and thrilling, new takes on classic repertoire.
Be sure to catch the afternoon concert featuring the Harpur Jazz Quartet and Nick Weiser at 1:30 pm in the Casadesus Recital Hall. It's the perfect warm-up for a full day of world-class music!
These events are proudly made possible by the Karen and Robert Pompi Jazz Artist Series Endowment.
Ticketing information: https://www.binghamton.edu/anderson-center/events-list.html
Free admission.
ARTIST BIO:
Founded in 2013, Hub New Music is one of today’s leading contemporary music ensembles. Hub has expanded the repertoire for its distinct combination of flute, clarinet, violin, and cello with over two dozen commissions by today’s most celebrated composers. In its thoughtfully curated programs, Hub New Music performs works exclusively written for the ensemble that strike notes of contemporary relevance.
Recent and upcoming performances include concerts presented by Tanglewood, Seattle Symphony, Morgan Library, Suntory Hall (Tokyo), the Williams Center for the Arts, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center, King’s Place (London), Thailand International Composer’s Festival (Bangkok), Soka Performing Arts Center, Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, Bowdoin International Chamber Music Festival, and the Celebrity Series of Boston.
Current touring projects include Daniel Wohl’s UFO-inspired electroacoustic piece Mirage, and What If We’re Beautiful, a program exploring queerness, chosen family, and identity with music by Daniel Thomas Davis and choreography by Aaron Loux & Brian Lawson. In recent seasons, Hub has collaborated on commissions with Angélica Negrón, Nico Muhly, Tyshawn Sorey, Donnacha Dennehy, Christopher Cerrone, Carlos Simon, and Kati Agócs, among others. The group has also developed genre-defying collaborations with the Asia/America New Music Institute, Boston’s Urbanity Dance, Silkroad’s Kojiro Umezaki (shakuhachi), and trumpeter/spoken word artist MK Zulu.
Hub New Music’s recordings have garnered consistent acclaim. The group’s recent album with Kojiro Umezaki, a distance, intertwined, featured five works for Hub & shakuhachi which I Care if You Listen called “beautiful, haunting music that presents a clear and authentic dialog between varied cultural paradigms and traditions.” Hub’s debut album, Soul House, released on New Amsterdam Records, was called “ingenious and unequivocally gorgeous” (Boston Globe) and “intensely poignant.” (Textura) In 2022, Hub’s album with Carlos Simon, Requiem for the Enslaved, was nominated for a GRAMMY award for Best Classical Composition.
Hub is sought after for its multifaceted educational residency programs, having been recent guests at Princeton University, University of Michigan, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, among many others. In 2021, Hub was a resident ensemble for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Nancy and Barry Sanders Composer Fellowship program for high school aged composers. Also in 2021, Hub launched its flagship K-12 educational program, HubLab, that uses improvisation and storytelling to create original pieces with students of all musical levels.
Free Admission
ARTIST BIO:
Founded in 2013, Hub New Music is one of today’s leading contemporary music ensembles. Hub has expanded the repertoire for its distinct combination of flute, clarinet, violin, and cello with over two dozen commissions by today’s most celebrated composers. In its thoughtfully curated programs, Hub New Music performs works exclusively written for the ensemble that strike notes of contemporary relevance.
Recent and upcoming performances include concerts presented by Tanglewood, Seattle Symphony, Morgan Library, Suntory Hall (Tokyo), the Williams Center for the Arts, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center, King’s Place (London), Thailand International Composer’s Festival (Bangkok), Soka Performing Arts Center, Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, Bowdoin International Chamber Music Festival, and the Celebrity Series of Boston.
Current touring projects include Daniel Wohl’s UFO-inspired electroacoustic piece Mirage, and What If We’re Beautiful, a program exploring queerness, chosen family, and identity with music by Daniel Thomas Davis and choreography by Aaron Loux & Brian Lawson. In recent seasons, Hub has collaborated on commissions with Angélica Negrón, Nico Muhly, Tyshawn Sorey, Donnacha Dennehy, Christopher Cerrone, Carlos Simon, and Kati Agócs, among others. The group has also developed genre-defying collaborations with the Asia/America New Music Institute, Boston’s Urbanity Dance, Silkroad’s Kojiro Umezaki (shakuhachi), and trumpeter/spoken word artist MK Zulu.
Hub New Music’s recordings have garnered consistent acclaim. The group’s recent album with Kojiro Umezaki, a distance, intertwined, featured five works for Hub & shakuhachi which I Care if You Listen called “beautiful, haunting music that presents a clear and authentic dialog between varied cultural paradigms and traditions.” Hub’s debut album, Soul House, released on New Amsterdam Records, was called “ingenious and unequivocally gorgeous” (Boston Globe) and “intensely poignant.” (Textura) In 2022, Hub’s album with Carlos Simon, Requiem for the Enslaved, was nominated for a GRAMMY award for Best Classical Composition.
Hub is sought after for its multifaceted educational residency programs, having been recent guests at Princeton University, University of Michigan, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, among many others. In 2021, Hub was a resident ensemble for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Nancy and Barry Sanders Composer Fellowship program for high school aged composers. Also in 2021, Hub launched its flagship K-12 educational program, HubLab, that uses improvisation and storytelling to create original pieces with students of all musical levels.
Free Admission
Free Admission
An eclectic mix of solo trombone with piano works in recital format, including performances by the Binghamton University Low Brass Ensemble. Expect to hear works in varying styles from Baroque to Jazz.
Free Admission.
Featuring Dan Miller, alto saxophone, with works by Percy Grainger, Malcolm Arnold, Dmitri Shostokovich, Roshanne Etezady, with premiers of Giovanni Santos, Randall Standridge, and graduate student composer Nicky Kuláy.
Ticketing information: https://www.binghamton.edu/anderson-center/events-list.html
Featuring composers ranging from J.S. Bach to Steven Sondheim, Liam Flatley, tenor, explores what it means to be steadfast in one’s sense of devotion. Whether expressed by exalting the power of God like in Bach’s Magnificat, or explored through the struggle to be vulnerable enough to love and be loved in Sondheim's Company, devotion manifests in our lives in many ways and asks us to consider what gives our lives meaning. Additional works will also be featured by George F. Handel, Robert Schumann, Francis Poulenc, Daniel Catán, and Benjamin Britten.
Free Admission.
Hippocrates Cheng, assistant professor of music theory and composition prestent, Re/Sonic, a concert of new music for east Asian instruments. This performance features nine distinguished artists of East Asian instruments who will premiere new compositions composed by Dr. Cheng. The program includes trio music for Chinese instruments (Dizi, Erhu, Pipa); trio music for Japanese instruments (Ryūteki, Hichiriki, Shō); trio music for Korean instruments (Daegeum, Haegeum, Gayageum), and a large ensemble piece for all nine instruments.
This concert is sponsored in part by, Harpur college, School of the Arts, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, Institute for Asia and Asian Diasporas.
FACULTY BIO:
Hippocrates Cheng 鄭靖楠 is an assistant professor of music theory and composition in the Binghamton University Music Department. He is a composer, theorist, ethnomusicologist and multi-instrumentalist from Hong Kong. In 2024, he completed his Doctor of Music Composition with a minor in ethnomusicology at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His composition teachers included professors Don Freund, Eugene O'Brien, David Dzubay and Aaron Travers.
As an award-winning composer, Cheng writes contemporary classical music, new music for Asian instruments, jazz and music for interdisciplinary productions. As a multi-instrumentalist, he performs overtone singing, piano and viola while also practicing qin, dan bau and phin pia.
He draws on music theory, composition, ethnomusicology and sound studies in his research of both traditional and contemporary East Asian music. This intersectional approach is exemplified by his research on the music of the Hong Kong composer Doming Lam, the player piano and piano rolls in early jazz history, and braille music notation. His papers were selected by conferences hosted by AMIS, IAML, ICTMD, ISJAC, APME, AMS, the CUNY Graduate Center, the University at Buffalo, the University of Southern California, the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Humboldt University, University College Dublin, the University of Malaya and the Korean Performing Arts Institute of Chicago.
Cheng began his musical journey by learning to play piano, violin and clarinet in choir and ensembles. He pursued his Bachelor of Music in composition at the Hong Kong Baptist University under the guidance of Christopher Coleman and Christopher Keyes. In 2018, with the support of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund, he completed his master's degree in Music Composition at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) with distinction. His composition teachers included professors Clarence Mak and Florence Cheung.
Before joining Binghamton University, he taught as an associate instructor in music theory at IU and as adjunct faculty at IU Northwest. As a guest lecturer, he gave lectures, talks, masterclasses and workshops at Butler University (USA), Ball State University (USA), University of Indianapolis (USA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA), Shanghai Conservatory of Music (China), Peking University (China), Lingnan University (Hong Kong), Senzoku College of Music (Japan), Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts (Japan), Mahidol University (Thailand), Chiang Mai Rajabhat University (Thailand), Naresuan University (Thailand) and Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University (Thailand).
In June 2024, his chamber opera on anti-Asian hate, All of US, was premiered as the winning work commissioned by the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana. In the summer of 2024, he was selected for an exchange program funded by Indiana University (IU) and the Free University of Berlin (FUB). During his residency in Berlin, he conducted research and created new works.
He is currently working on a creative research project titled "East Asian Music in the Contemporary World."
Ticketing information: https://www.binghamton.edu/anderson-center/events-list.html
Free Admission.
Free Admission.
Free Admission.
Free Admission.
Ticketing information: https://www.binghamton.edu/anderson-center/events-list.html
Free Admission.
Free Admission.
Free Admission.
In celebration of the Drawing Connections: Frank Lloyd Wright exhibition, the Momenta Quartet presents a genre-defying program of works by Binghamton composers, which were developed in a semester-long collaboration with the quartet — moving from pencil sketches to fully rendered structures.
Free Admission.
Free Admission.
Free Admission.
Ticketing information: https://www.binghamton.edu/anderson-center/events-list.html
Ticketing information: https://www.binghamton.edu/anderson-center/events-list.html
Free Admission.
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