Pianist Randall Hodgkinson to Perform at Williams College

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – Randall Hodgkinson will perform a Bösendorfer piano recital on Sunday, Feb. 8, at 3 p.m. in Chapin Hall on the Williams College campus. Hodgkinson will also give a master class for Williams College piano students that evening at 7:30 p.m. in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall. These free events are open to the public.     

Hodkinson will play Beethoven’s Sonata, opus 10; Carter’s Sonata; and Schumann’s Davidsbündler Dances.

Grand Prize winner of the International American Music Competition sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and Carnegie Hall, Randall Hodgkinson has performed with New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony and Boston Pops, Iceland Philharmonic and the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia in Rome. Many solo and collaborative recordings include the BBC double 5 star award winner "Petrouschka and other Prophesies" the Grammy Award winner with Dawn Upshaw, “The Girl With the Orange Lips”, the complete music for cello and piano by Leo Ornstein with cellist Joshua Gordon for New World Recordings Numerous appearances in festivals include BargeMusic, Santa Fe Festival, Chamber Music Northwest and Mainly Mozart in La Jolla, California.

Mr. Hodgkinson performs the 2 piano and 4 hand repertoire with his wife, Leslie Amper and the piano trio repertoire with the Gramercy Trio, and is an artist member of the Boston Chamber Music Society. Faculty appointments include New England Conservatory of Music and the Longy School in Cambridge and Boston University and Wellesley College.
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Swann, Williams College Harriers Compete at NCAA Championships

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Mount Greylock Regional School alumna Kate Swann and the Williams College women's cross country team are in Terre Haute, Ind., Saturday morning to compete at the NCAA Division III Championship.
 
Williams crushed the field at the 24-team regional championship in New London, Conn., to qualify for the national championship.
 
On Nov. 16 at the Mideast Regional, Williams finished with 59 points, well ahead of runner-up Rensselaer Polytechnic, which collected 110 points.
 
Swann, a junior, was the second Williams runner across the finish line, finishing 10th overall with a time of 21 minutes, 36 seconds on the 6-kilometer course.
 
Williams has finished first or second in every event it entered this fall, winning titles at its own Purple Valley Classic, Keene State (N.H.) Invitational, James Eareley Invitational (Westfield State), Connecticut College Invitational and New England Small College Athletic Conference Championships.
 
The NCAA DIII Championships get underway at 11 a.m. on Saturday at the LaVern Gibson Cross Country Course.
 
The Division I Stonehill College women's cross country team placed fourth at the Northeast Conference Championship; Pittsfield High graduate Kellie Harrington was the second finisher for the Skyhawks, placing 17th at the season-ending meet.
 
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