This year’s Mayfest, May 17-21, features five “fabulous concerts,” say artistic directors Xak Bjerken and Miri Yampolsky, by “fan favorite” guest musicians playing music from Bach to Britten to Hildegard von Bingen – and the world premiere of a composition by Christopher Stark DMA ‘13. Tickets can be purchased in-person or online; all concerts will be held on the Cornell campus and the…
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Dr. Yunn-Shan Ma will conduct the Empowerment Through Music concert March 9.
The annual Empowerment Through Music concert, presented by the Cornell Department of Music and Chorus and Glee Club in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), will be held Saturday, March 9 at 7:30 pm in Sage Chapel. In celebration of International Women’s Day, the choirs will present a concert of music centering women composers and music at the intersection of Asia and the Asian diaspora.
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Mayfest artistic directors Xak Bjerken, professor of music in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Miri Yampolsky welcome longtime friends and new collaborators for five world-class concerts May 19-23, featuring works from Mozart to Messiaen and Arensky to Weill.
Invited artists this year include five-time Grammy-winning soprano Dawn Upshaw; and violinist Roi Shiloah, who has performed as…
Cornell Department of Music’s Chorus, Glee Club, and Symphony Orchestra
The Cornell Department of Music’s Chorus, Glee Club, and Symphony Orchestra collaborate for this year’s Major Works concert on Saturday, April 29 at 7:30 pm in Bailey Hall.
Led by Guillaume Pirard, CSO conductor, and Joe Lerangis, the Priscilla E. Browning Director of Choral Music in the College of Arts and Sciences, the performance will include Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony…
The Cornell Department of Music welcomes chamber group loadbang for their second visit to campus as the Steven Stucky Memorial Residency for New Music ensemble. Their performance on Saturday, April 15 at 7:30 pm in Barnes Hall will feature world premieres of new works by Cornell composers Laura Cetilia, Coral Douglas, Seare Farhat, and Matias de Roux.
During their fall 2022 visit to Cornell,…
The Cornell Department of Music in the College of Arts and Sciences and A.D. White Professors-at-Large program welcome internationally acclaimed and five-time GRAMMY Award-winning soprano Dawn Upshaw when she performs Maria Schneiders’ “Winter Morning Walks” on Friday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m. in Barnes Hall.
Guest artist Scott Robinson (saxophonist-clarinetist)…
loadbang, the Steven Stucky Memorial Residency for New Music ensemble for this year, will visit campus for two concerts in early October.
Founded in 2008 and based in New York City, loadbang features a unique instrumentation of trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet and baritone voice. Dedicated to education and the cultivation of an enthusiasm for new music, loadbang has premiered more than 450…
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Romanian pianist Aurelia Visovan, one of the 12 artists participating in the Forte/Piano Summer Academy.
For seven days this summer, 12 young artists from around the world will be immersed in one of the world’s most significant collections of performance-ready historical pianos, as part of the Forte/Piano Summer Academy at Cornell University’s Center for Historical Keyboards, in partnership with the Westfield Center.
“The new educational initiative will give these students the opportunity of a…
Under the artistic direction of pianists Miri Yampolsky and Xak Bjerken, the Department of Music in the College of Arts and Sciences presents Mayfest, its annual springtime festival of world-class chamber music. Held May 20-24, Mayfest will feature performances by exceptional guest artists from around the world.
Bjerken and Yampolsky say they look forward to this celebration of music,…
The Cornell Department of Music presents Ariana Kim, playing the Korean traditional zither (gayageum) and violin, and Young-Nam Kim, playing violin, on Saturday, April 16 at 7 pm in Anabel Taylor Chapel.
“Gayageum, Meet Violin” is a recital and discussion featuring a preview performance of a new composition “Apba Hagoo, Nah Hagoo” by Ariana Kim for gayageum and violin. The concert…
Nancy Mooslin
This piece, Concerto for Orchestra By Steven Stucky, was created by artist Nancy Mooslin.
Cornell ReSounds welcomed an esteemed slate of musicians, composers, and instrument builders for a two-day virtual play | pen symposium on February 4-5. Looking at tradition and past inventions as a way forward, the presenters showcased their innovations and design sensibilities, highlighting connections between music and technology.
ReSounds aims to establish Cornell as a…
The Cornell Department of Music and Center for Historical Keyboards present an organ festival, “The Orpheus of Amsterdam: Sweelinck and his legacy,” from Oct. 20-23.
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the Dutch composer and keyboardist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck’s death, and the festival presents an opportunity to revisit a body of inventive and pioneering keyboard work that stands as a…
Carrying on a beloved annual tradition, the Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club will offer a musical holiday celebration including singalong carols (featuring the virtually assembled choirs), seasonal poetry readings, and recordings from past Christmas services Dec. 16. As this most unusual year comes to a close, this family-friendly multimedia concert will provide space to rejoice, mourn,…
The Cornell Gamelan Ensemble presents two days of Indonesian performances at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art with visiting guest artists from Java and Bali. On Thursday, Nov. 21 at 7 p.m., guest artists Gusti Sudarta (Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Denpasar) and Darsono Hadiraharjo (SEAP Visiting Critic) will perform excerpts of traditional wayang (shadow puppetry), providing audiences a…
The Cornell Department of Music’s Steven Stucky Memorial Residency for New Music begins with the Israeli Chamber Project (ICP) visiting campus as the initiative’s inaugural ensemble Sept. 16. ICP is a dynamic ensemble with variable instrumentation that brings together distinguished musicians for chamber music concerts and educational and outreach programs both in Israel and abroad. ICP has…
The Department of Music announces its spring semester slate of concerts, featuring a wide range of performances from faculty, students, and special guests. Highlights include the Chorus and Glee Club collaborating with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra to perform Brahms’ Requiem on April 27; the Wind Symphony, Chorale, and Chamber Singers teaming up for Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms on May 5;…
For the first time in more than 60 years, the music of J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion will fill Cornell’s Bailey Hall. The masterwork performance will utilize the combined talents of the Cornell University Glee Club and Chorus, orchestral musicians from NYS Baroque, and six internationally-renowned vocal soloists, including tenor Rufus Müller, who is regarded in the press as one of the world’s…
Twenty years ago, a musical collective of Cornell and Ithaca College faculty joined together to create an ensemble dedicated to presenting new musical works, and Ensemble X is still going strong. On Sunday, April 15 at 8:00pm at Barnes Hall, they will perform the blockbuster concert of their season in celebration.“This concert is our way of saying thanks to the Ithaca community for twenty fun…
*/Internationally acclaimed musician, composer, and bandleader Wynton Marsalis will play in concert with student musicians at Cornell’s Bailey Hall on Wednesday, March 28 at 8:00 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public with no tickets required. Seating is first-come, first-served.Marsalis is best-known as a premiere jazz trumpeter, but his varied career has also included classical music…
*/Founded in 1997 by Steven Stucky and a group of performers from Cornell University and Ithaca College who shared a passionate commitment to new music, Ensemble X celebrates its 20th anniversary season with a quartet of concert performances, the first of which will be Sunday, September 24, at 3:00 PM at Barnes Hall Auditorium.The ensemble's mission is to perform both very new music of the…
