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Concerto Competition announces three winners

1/22/2025 Department of Music

This year's Cornell Concerto competition honored three students as winners.

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Forte/Piano Summer Academy returns to Cornell

7/11/2024 A&S Communications

The July 30-Aug. 3 experience for young artists will culminate with a series of concerts, presentations and roundtable discussions featuring distinguished performing artists, teachers and “rising stars."

Roi Shiloah playing violin while leaning back in his chair — Provided Roi Shiloah

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Mayfest, Cornell’s Int’l Chamber Music Festival, begins May 17

5/3/2024 A&S Communications

Mayfest is “a festival of joy, music, friendships, and deep connections among the musicians and with the loyal and wonderful audiences,” said co-artistic director Miri Yampolsky.

Provided Dr. Yunn-Shan Ma will conduct the Empowerment Through Music concert March 9.

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Concert celebrates International Women’s Day

3/1/2024 A&S Communications

The annual Empowerment Through Music concert will be held Saturday, March 9 at 7:30 pm in Sage Chapel.

Person leaning against a wall, holding a violin — Provided Violinist Maria Ioudenitch

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Mayfest chamber music festival returns to Ithaca May 19-23

5/5/2023 A&S Communications

Cornell's international music festival welcomes longtime friends and new collaborators for five world-class concerts May 19-23.

an orchestra and a chorus on a stage — Cornell Department of Music’s Chorus, Glee Club, and Symphony Orchestra

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Mozart’s Requiem, jazz trumpeter highlight late-April concert schedule

4/19/2023 A&S Communications

Music department concerts offer a major works concert, a jazz trumpet collaboration, a hope-filled organ recital and more, April 27 – May 2.

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Ensemble-in-residence loadbang performs April 15

3/31/2023 A&S Communications

Featuring a unique instrumentation of trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, and baritone voice, loadbang headlines a week of great musical performances April 11-17.

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GRAMMY-winning soprano Dawn Upshaw performs Feb. 24

2/10/2023 A&S Communications

Maria Schneiders’ “Winter Morning Walks” headlines the program in Barnes Hall.

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loadbang offers concerts as 2022-23 Stucky Residency for New Music ensemble

9/23/2022 Department of Music

The ensemble will collaborate with graduate composers on new works and engage with students in a variety of ways.

Person posing at a piano — Sofija Palurović Romanian pianist Aurelia Visovan, one of the 12 artists participating in the Forte/Piano Summer Academy.

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Center for Historical Keyboards summer academy hosts 12 young piano stars

7/14/2022 A&S Communications

Young artists from around the world will be immersed in one of the world’s most significant collections of performance-ready historical pianos, with performances open to the public August 1-6.

Person sitting on a stool, holding a flute — Flutist Gili Schwarzman will perform at Mayfest

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Mayfest chamber music festival returns to Ithaca May 20-24

5/9/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The music department's annual springtime festival of world-class chamber music will feature performances by exceptional guest artists from around the world.

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Ariana Kim’s piece for Korean zither highlights April music offerings

4/4/2022 Cornell Chronicle

“Gayageum, Meet Violin” is a recital and discussion, set for April 16, featuring a preview performance of a new composition “Apba Hagoo, Nah Hagoo” by Ariana Kim for the Korean traditional zither (gayageum) and violin.

colorful painting — Nancy Mooslin This piece, Concerto for Orchestra By Steven Stucky, was created by artist Nancy Mooslin.

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Cornell ReSounds presented play | pen symposium Feb. 4-5

1/31/2022 Department of Music

Cornell ReSounds welcomed an esteemed slate of musicians, composers, and instrument builders for a two-day virtual symposium.

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Music department presents organ festival Oct. 20-23

10/5/2021 Department of Music

An organ festival on campus will feature the works of the Dutch composer and keyboardist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.

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Chorus and Glee Club present virtual Readings & Carols

12/10/2020 Department of Music

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.

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Indonesian Gamelan performances this week

11/11/2019 Department of Music

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 rare opportunity to experience both Balinese and Javanese forms of this vital art form.

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Israeli Chamber Project performs in inaugural Steven Stucky Residency concert

9/4/2019

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.

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Music announces spring semester events

1/14/2019 Cornell Chronicle

The new Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards offers chances for study, performance and recording.

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Cornell and NYS Baroque to perform Bach’s monumental St. Matthew Passion

4/23/2018

On May 5 in Bailey Hall, the Cornell University Glee Club and Chorus, orchestral musicians from NYS Baroque, and six internationally-renowned vocal soloists, including tenor Rufus Müller, will perform the music of J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.

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Concert celebrates Ensemble X's 20th anniversary

4/2/2018

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.

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Jazz Legend Wynton Marsalis in concert with Cornell ensembles March 28

3/8/2018

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New Music Performers Ensemble X Celebrate Twentieth Anniversary Season

9/18/2017

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