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Dorian Bandy: Cornell's Undergrad Artist of the Year | Wed Oct 21, 2009

Los Angeles native Dorian Komanoff Bandy, '10, music major and College Scholar, is a man of many parts -- historian, linguist, and above all, musician. In the last category he has ventured into the arcana of music history, music theory, and historical-informed performance of music of the Baroque and Classical periods. He plays baroque and modern violin and viola, and as violinist is currently concertmaster of Cornell baroque string band, Les Petits Violons. In the fall of 2008 he organized a fully-staged production of Don Giovanni, which played to standing-room-only audiences in the Risley College Great Hall. Bandy led the performances from the harpsichord.
 
Next semester he will be directing performances of music relevant to a conference put on by Cornell graduate students in musicology. The subject of the conference is the musical world of Dr. Charles Burney, a harpsichordist and composer who was the father of Fanny and one of the founders of the discipline of music history.

On Tuesday, October 27, 2009, in Sage Chapel Bandy will lead Les Petits Violons and soloists in an 8 PM concert (free and open to all) honoring the two-hundredth anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn. On that occasion he will be presented with the Cornell University Undergraduate Artist Award, given annually by the Cornell Council for the Arts to an undergraduate who demonstrates distinction and excellence in one or more disciplines in the arts, and has realized notable achievements while at Cornell.