Concerts
The Department of Music sponsors more than a hundred concerts on campus each year, given by faculty members, students, departmental ensembles, and distinguished visiting artists. All are open to the public and most are free, unless ticketing information is given. The listings below also include the Cornell Concert Series, which brings artists of international stature to campus; admission is charged for all of these events. The Cornell Concert Commission hosts large-scale pop and rock acts, and many additional student-organized musical events take place on campus; for information, check with the Willard Straight Hall Ticket Office at 255-3430 (Mon-Fri).
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Saturday, November 7 8:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | Ensemble X celebrates Steven Stucky's 60th with a birthday salute. Features music by Ades, Stravinsky, Salonen, Lutoslawski, Sibelius, and three works by Stucky (Whispers, Album Leaves, and Ad Parnassum). |
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Sunday, November 8 3:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | Contrapunkt: Julia Adolphe, Greg Weisbrod, and Liza Sobel, officers. Features music by Cornell undergraduate composers. |
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Sunday, November 8 8:00 pm |
Bailey Hall | Founded and based in the ancient capital of Nara, the Japanese taiko (drum) group Yamato brings exuberant new energy and meaning to old traditions. "The rhythmic beating in my heart and yours become one through the taiko", says founding director Masa Ogawa: Yamato expresses and celebrates the continuous sound of life from the beginning until today. "When we feel the pulsating power of life and the surge of energy between our spectators and ourselves ... we become united with the sound." Yamato, the Drummers of Japan TICKETS can be purchased (starting mid-August 2009) online at BaileyTickets.com or via Ticket Center Ithaca, 171 The Commmons, Center Ithaca, tel. (607)273-4497 or (800)248-8422 |
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Monday, November 9 8:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | Mathieu Langlois, baroque flute, Dorian Bandy, baroque violin and viola, with fortepianists Blaise Bryski and David Yearsley. Features works by C.P.E. Bach and Haydn. |
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Wednesday, November 11 12:30 pm |
Sage Chapel | Midday Music for Organ: Annette Richards performs "War, Peace, Recollection" on the Aeolian-Skinner organ, featuring works by Cesar Franck, Jehan Alain, and Herbert Howells. |
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Wednesday, November 11 8:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | Stefania Neonato, fortepiano. "Clementi Grand Piano in Concert" celebrates the CD release of the same name and features music of Muzio Clementi and Beethoven performed on a Clementi fortepiano. Funded, in part, by the Italian and French Studies Programs. |
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Thursday, November 12 12:30 pm |
Lincoln B20 | Midday Music at Lincoln: guest ensemble, the Israeli Chamber Project, presents Saint-Saens' Fantasy for Violin and Harp; Matan Porat's Night Horses for clarinet, violin, cello and piano; and Bartok's Contrasts for clarinet, violin and piano. |
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Friday, November 13 8:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players; Jesse Jones, Peter Fahey, Takuma Itoh, Eric Nathan, and Amit Gilutz, directors. Music by Cornell graduate composers performed by the guest ensemble, Israeli Chamber Project. Funded in part by grants from the Cornell Council for the Arts, GPSAFC, and Cornell Hillel. |
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Sunday, November 15 3:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | Student Chamber Music Recital. |
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Sunday, November 15 8:00 pm |
Other | Cornell Chamber Singers; Holland Jancaitis, conductor. Features music by Charpentier, Mendelssohn, Peter Cornelius, and Arvo Part. [This event has been moved from Barnes Hall to the Unitarian Church, corner of Buffalo and Aurora Streets.] |
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Monday, November 16 8:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | Faculty Chamber Music Concert: Xak Bjerken, Miri Yampolsky and Blaise Bryski, piano; Joseph Lin, violin; John Haines-Eitzen, cello; and Judith Kellock, soprano. Features Beethoven's Cello Sonata in C Major, Mendelssohn's Songs without Words for piano four-hands, songs of Hugo Wolf, and Lutoslawski's Partita for violin and piano. |
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Tuesday, November 17 8:00 pm |
Sage Chapel | Tim Pyper, organ. Features a 20th-century program of music by Herbert Howells, Edward Bairstow, Marcel Dupre, Vincent Persichetti, and Maurice Durufle. |
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Thursday, November 19 12:30 pm |
Lincoln B20 | Midday Music at Lincoln: an undergrad, a visiting scholar, and a graduate student perform Haydn sonatas from Hob. XVI: Daniel Anastasio, C Minor, no. 20; Christina Bratterud, B-flat Major, no. 2; and Stefania Neonato, C Major, no. 50. |
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Thursday, November 19 8:00 pm |
Willard Straight Memorial Rm | Cornell Steel Band, World Drum & Dance Ensemble, and Percussion Ensemble; Tim Feeney, director. Sponsored by the WSH Program Board as part of the WSH Coffeehouse Series. [Willard Straight Hall, Memorial Room] |
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Friday, November 20 8:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | Haydn Festival: Chris Younghoon Kim, director. Chamber music of Joseph Haydn, as well as the Ithaca College Chamber Orchestra; Jeffery Meyer, conductor, performing Symphony No. 103 in E-flat Major ("Drum Roll"). Chamber music includes the Sonata in E Minor, Hob. 34 (Malcolm Bilson); four part songs; Quartet in F Minor, op. 55, no. 2 (Nicholas DiEugenio and Bee-seon Keum, violins; Joseph Lin, viola; John Haines-Eitzen, cello); and Piano Trio in A Major, Hob. 18 (Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano; Joseph Lin, violin; John Haines-Eitzen, cello). |
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Saturday, November 21 3:30 pm |
Other Ford Hall | New York Young Men Singing; Scott Tucker, director, features the Cornell University Glee Club and the Young Men's Chorus of Ithaca; Jennifer Haywood, director, and Janet Galvan, artistic director. High school boys from all over the state join the two ensembles for a day's workshop with a guest clinician Gene Peterson, culminating in this unique free concert. [Ford Hall at Ithaca College, within the Whalen Center for Music] |
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Saturday, November 21 8:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | Haydn Festival: Cornell Chamber Orchestra, Chris Younghoon Kim, conductor. Features the Overture to L'incontro improvviso, Sinfonia in D Major, Keyboard Concerto in G Major, Hob. 18:4, with Malcolm Bilson, and Symphony No. 45 in F-sharp Minor ("Farewell"). |
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Sunday, November 22 3:00 pm |
Sage Chapel | Haydn Festival: Cornell Chorale; Holland Jancaitis, conductor, with members of the Cornell Symphony Orchestra; Chris Younghoon Kim, conductor. Haydn's "Lord Nelson" Mass, with guest soloists Melanie Russell, soprano; Sylvia Aiko Rider, alto; and Steven Caldicott Wilson, tenor; and music major John Chambers, bass. |
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Sunday, November 22 8:00 pm |
Bailey Hall | Cornell University Wind Symphony; Cynthia Johnston Turner, conductor, and the Cornell University Percussion Ensemble; Tim Feeney, director. CUWS presents David Gillingham's Concertino for Four Percussion and Wind Ensemble and works by Kim Portnoy and Robert Russell Bennett. CUPE performs John Cage's Amores and Lou Harrison's Fifth Simfony. |
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Monday, November 23 8:00 pm |
Other Carriage Hse. | Cornell University Jazz Ensembles: Jazz Combo Concert; Paul Merrill, director, with CU Voices; Cookie Coogan, director. [Carriage House Cafe's Hay Loft] |
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Monday, November 30 8:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | POSTPONED to Feb 6,2010: Xak Bjerken and Miri Yampolsky, piano. Features works by Mendelssohn and music for piano four-hands. |
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Tuesday, December 1 8:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | Student Chamber Music Recital. |
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Wednesday, December 2 12:30 pm |
Sage Chapel | Midday Music for Organ: David Yearsley presents a program of music by the extraordinary Elizabethan composer William Bryd on the Vicedomini organ in Sage Chapel. |
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Wednesday, December 2 8:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | Studio 342: voice students of Judith Kellock. |
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Thursday, December 3 12:30 pm |
Lincoln B20 | Midday Music at Lincoln: Les petits violons; Dorian Komanoff Bandy, director. |
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Thursday, December 3 8:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | Studio recital: piano students of Xak Bjerken. |
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Friday, December 4 8:00 pm |
Sage Chapel | Annette Richards, University organist, presents music for Advent and Christmas on both organs in Sage Chapel: the Neapolitan organ of Augustinus Vicedomini and the Aeolian-Skinner organ. Includes works by J. S. Bach, Nicolas Lebegue, and Messiaen. |
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Saturday, December 5 3:00 pm |
Lincoln B20 | Sound Art Forum: Kevin Ernste, director. Features music of Cornell student composers in conjunction with the Cornell Electroacoustic Music Center. |
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Saturday, December 5 3:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | Studio recital: violin students of Joseph Lin. |
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Saturday, December 5 8:00 pm |
Bailey Hall | Cornell University Jazz Ensemble I; Paul Merrill, director, with guest guitarist/composer-arranger Steve Brown. |
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Sunday, December 6 3:00 pm |
Bailey Hall | Cornell University Wind Ensemble; Cynthia Johnston Turner, conductor, and the Cornell Symphony Orchestra; Chris Younghoon Kim, conductor. In preparation for its return to Costa Rica, the CUWE presents Bernstein's West Side Story, Lauridsen's O Magnum Mysterium, and Stephen Gryc's Las Campanas. The CSO performs Wolf songs, orchestrated by Steven Stucky with soloist Judith Kellock, and Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture. |
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Sunday, December 6 7:30 pm |
Sage Chapel | Sage Chapel Christmas Vespers: a candlelit Lessons and Carols service sung by the Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club, with traditional readings by members of the Cornell community. Features John Rowehl, conductor, and Annette Richards, University organist, with audience participation in the familiar Christmas hymns. |
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Monday, December 7 7:30 pm |
Sage Chapel | Sage Chapel Christmas Vespers: a candlelit Lessons and Carols service sung by the Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club, with traditional readings by members of the Cornell community. Features John Rowehl, conductor, and Annette Richards, University organist, with audience participation in the familiar Christmas hymns. [repeat of previous evening, but with different readers] |
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Tuesday, December 8 8:00 pm |
Lincoln B20 | Cornell Gamelan Ensemble; Christopher J. Miller, director. Features music for Javanese gamelan. |
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Tuesday, December 8 8:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | Student Chamber Music Recital. |
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Saturday, December 12 8:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | D.M.A. recital: Stuart Duncan, composer. |
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Sunday, December 13 8:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | Finals for the sixth annual Cornell Concerto Competition. |