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Annie Lewandowski

Annie Lewandowski is a composer and performer who works in song and improvisation. As an improviser on piano, accordion, and electronics, she has performed and recorded with musicians including Fred Frith, the London Improvisers Orchestra, Caroline Kraabel, Theresa Wong, Tim Feeney, CAGE, Sarah Hennies, Spinneret.s, and Doublends Vert. As a singer, guitarist, and keyboardist, she has recorded with bands and ensembles including Emma Zunz, Xiu Xiu, The Curtains, Former Ghosts, and Yarn/Wire. Her own band Powerdove has released ten recordings, including Machination(Murailles Music, 2021) andBitter Banquet(fo'c'sle records, 2018).

In 2017, Lewandowski began studying humpback whale song with pioneering bioacoustician Katy Payne. Her 2018 composition Cetus: Life After Life,for humpback whale song and chimes, traces the evolution of Hawaiian humpback whale song from 1977-1981. She is currently working on thecreative project Siren - Listening to Another Species on Earthwith artist and coder Kyle McDonald exploring the meeting of multiple intelligences - human, humpback whale, and artificial.Sirenwill be presented on Martha's Vineyard, at the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, in New York City, and at MASS MoCA in 2021-2022.

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Chris Younghoon Kim


Associate Professor of Music Chris Younghoon Kim has been the Director of Orchestras at Cornell University since 2004. He directs the Cornell Chamber Orchestra and the Cornell Symphony Orchestra; teaches conducting; and works closely with graduate student and faculty composers to present their work in concert.

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Ariana Kim

Noted byThe New York Timesfor giving “the proceedings an invaluable central thread of integrity and stylishness,” violinistAriana Kimmade her New York recital debut at Carnegie’s Weill Hall during her doctoral studies at Juilliard and is now a tenured a professor at Cornell University. At 16, Ariana made her debut withthe St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and at 24 was appointed acting concertmaster ofthe Louisiana Philharmonic in New Orleans; she has since become one of the most respected artists of her generation.

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Robert Isaacs

Robert Isaacs is the director of choral activities at Cornell University, a position generously supported by Priscilla E. Browning.  He has conducted Cornell choirs in performance at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the U.S. Supreme Court, led them on tour to over sixty cities across North and Central America, and prepared them for nine world premieres.  Prior to his arrival at Cornell, Robert ran choral programs at Princeton University and the Manhattan School of Music, and served as interim director of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain.  He has worked as a guest conductor with ensembles on both sides of the Atlantic, including Laudibus, Cerddorion, Amuse, TENET, and the Vox Vocal Ensemble, and released critically acclaimed recordings with Priory Records, Delphian Records, and the BBC.  Robert made his conducting debut at Carnegie Hall with the Argento New Music Project;  he has also conducted at the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Snape Proms, the Guggenheim Museum, and other venues ranging from Stockholm to the Cook Islands.
As a singer, Robert has appeared as a countertenor soloist with choirs and orchestras of many stripes, including Saint Thomas Fifth Avenue, Musica Sacra, Trinity Wall Street, the Wells Oratorio Society, Polyphony Voices of New Mexico, the Gotham City Baroque Orchestra, and so on.  Currently he tours and records with Pomerium and the Vox Vocal Ensemble.  Robert has performed with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, accompanied the Mark Morris Dance Group on tour in Russia, and appeared twice in Jonathan Miller’s staged St. Matthew Passion at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.  He was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2006.
A specialist in musicianship training and sightsinging, Robert has led workshops with a wide range of choirs and developed curricula for several institutions.  He has published articles on eartraining pedagogy in Church Music Quarterly, and given lectures at Oxford University, the Royal Northern College of Music, and the Uppingham School.
Robert graduated with high honors from Harvard University, where he designed his own course of study in choral music.  After a stint as a juggler and unicyclist on the streets of San Francisco, he spent a year as a Trustman Fellow, researching choral rehearsal psychology throughout England and Scandinavia.  In 2002, Robert earned an MFA in creative writing at Columbia University;  he has published articles on travel and politics in the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and the Baltimore Sun.  His musical arrangements are published by the Royal School of Church Music.
 

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Class of 2021

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Music Events Feb. 23-24

Our Midday Music series begins this week with an organ concert at First Presbyterian Church, plus Yarn/Wire makes a special visit to Lincoln Hall!

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Andrew Hicks

Andrew Hicks’ research focuses on the intellectualhistory of early musical thought from a cross-disciplinary perspective that embraces philosophical, cosmological, scientific and grammatical discourse in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and spans the linguistic and cultural spheres of Latin, Greek, Persian, and Arabic. His first book, Composing the World: Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos(Oxford University Press, 2017), won the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson book award (2018) and the Society for Music Theory's Emerging Scholar book award (2018). He collaborated with Fr. Édouard Jeauneau on John Scottus Eriugena’s Commentary and Homily on the Gospel of John (CCCM 166, Brepols 2008), and he is currently preparing the first edition ofWilliam of Conches’Glosulae super Priscianum(Brepols). His published essaysrange across the history of music theory, late ancient and medieval Pythagoreanism, the reception of Martianus Capella, textual criticism, and musical metaphors and modalities in Classical Persian literatures. He won the 2018 Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin for research on his next book titled The Broken Harp: Listening Otherwise in Classical Persian Literature.

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Rebecca Harris-Warrick


Rebecca Harris-Warrick brings to her primary specialization in the field of French baroque music an interdisciplinary background in musicology, performance, dance history, and literature. Her research also extends beyond the Baroque into later periods of operatic history, particularly in France, and she has prepared critical editions of theatrical works by Gaetano Donizetti and Jean-Baptiste Lully. In addition to her musicological work she has performed as a baroque flutist and studied both renaissance and baroque dance. As a result, much of her scholarly work has been informed by her interests in performance and performance practice and, conversely, some of her research has been brought into practice on the stage, such as in productions of operas at the Boston Early Music Festival. In 2003 she organized performances at Cornell and the Eastman School of Music of Lully’sCarnaval Mascarade(first performed at the Paris Opera in 1675) and in 2007 a program entitled “Harlequin’s Capers,” which included the first performance since 1734 of a ballet from the stage of the Théatre Italien in Paris, Jean-Joseph Mouret’s Pygmalion.

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Faculty News 2021

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Music Events March 3-6

The Cornell Symphony Orchestra presents their annual Young Person's Concert on March 5 at Bailey Hall, and the Cornell Concert Series returns to live presentations on March 6! Plus, join us for Midday Music, Musicology Colloquium, and an organ duo recital!

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Festival takes listeners on musical pilgrimage around Arts Quad

The Resounds Festival kicks off a yearlong project focused on innovation in acoustic instruments and includes installations at the Johnson Museum and concerts each day beginning at 4 p.m. that take listeners on a pilgrimage to various locations around the Arts Quad.

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Letter from the Chair:

Dear Friends of Music, 

Many things have happened since the last time I had a chance to write to you at the outset of my term as Chair of the Department of Music. We lived through a second year of incredible challenges brought to us by COVID-19 and its variants. Nevertheless, the return to in-person teaching and music-making last Fall — thanks to the safety restrictions in place and the moving resilience and solidarity of our staff, students, and faculty — was a very welcome change to the many months of isolation that had prevented us from enjoying the intellectual conversations, artistic partnerships, and even trivial chit-chat that many of us had taken for granted before the pandemic...

[Read more of the Letter from Department Chair Alejandro L. Madrid]

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This academic year featured numerous highlights from programs and individuals. Please follow the links below to read more!

Cornell Giving Day is March 16!

Cornell Giving Day is March 16!

Mark your calendars for Cornell Giving Day, March 16th! Your donation of any size on March 16 will go towards direct costs of music making, including scholarships for lessons. Thank you for your generosity and for making a difference for our students!

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Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards 2021 news

Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards 2021 news

The Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards had another busy, productive, and exciting year in 2021.

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Festival takes listeners on musical pilgrimage around Arts Quad

The Resounds Festival kicks off a yearlong project focused on innovation in acoustic instruments and includes installations at the Johnson Museum and concerts each day beginning at 4 p.m. that take listeners on a pilgrimage to various locations around the Arts Quad.

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Students reflect on Marsalis visit: ‘He really touched my soul’

Wynton Marsalis visited campus Nov. 1-6 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.

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Project celebrates the beauty of humpback whale songs

Project celebrates the beauty of humpback whale songs

“The Whale Listening Project,” which runs Sept. 23-26, is a four-day immersion in the beauty of whale song and a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the best-selling 1970 album, “Songs of the Humpback Whale,” co-produced by pioneering bioacoustics researchers Roger Payne, Ph.D. ’61, and Katy Payne ’59, a retired research associate with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Bioacoustics Research Program.

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Your support makes a difference! 

Throughout the pandemic, students and faculty have demonstrated innovation, creativity, and adaptation to continue making music an important part of their Cornell experience. Your donation on March 16 will go towards direct costs of music making, including scholarships for lessons. Thank you for your support!

You can also make a gift online any time or send a check payable to “Cornell University” (Memo: Music Department) to:

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John A. Haines-Eitzen

Cellist John Haines-Eitzen has performed in major concert halls throughout Europe, Asia, North America, and South America. He was a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1995 until 2005 and has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Columbus Symphony, and the North Carolina Symphony. His solo and chamber music appearances have taken him to cities in Japan, China, Brazil, and Italy, as well as the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, the Sarasota Music Festival in Florida, and numerous concert series throughout the United States.

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Music Events March 7-12

The Voice and Piano programs present several events surrounding International Women's Day: the March 8 concert presents works by women composers, and the March 9 performance will include a premiere of a new piece by Katherine Balch. Balch also visits Composers' Forum on Friday. On Saturday, don't miss Big Red Icon, featuring student bands competing for a chance to perform at Slope Day events!

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Arthur Groos


Arthur Groos is Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities, and is a member of the graduate fields of German Studies, Medieval Studies, and Music. In the former, his interests include Arthurian romance, the courtly love lyric, medieval science, early modern city culture, and the Age of Goethe; in the latter they focus on issues of music and culture, text-music relations, and opera, especially Wagner, Puccini, and modern opera. Founding co-editor of the Cambridge Opera Journal, he is also general editor of Cambridge Studies in Opera (Cambridge University Press), and co-editor of a monograph series on medieval/early modern literature and culture, Transatlantische Studien (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht). A co-founder and Vice President of the Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini in Lucca, Italy, he also edits its periodical (Studi pucciniani) and monograph series. He held Guggenheim and Senior Fulbright Fellowships in Munich in 1979-80, and an Alexander von Humboldt Forschungspreis in Berlin in 2001-02. In fall 2007, he was Fowler Hamilton Visiting Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford. 

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Music Events March 16-18

Midday Music for Organ is in Barnes Hall on Wednesday, and the Cornell Concert Series presents Irish band Lúnasa to celebrate St. Patrick's Day on Friday! Plus, Cornell's Giving Day is all day on Wednesday - please join us in supporting our students in their musical endeavors!

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Music Events March 21-27

This week features 8 different events, including Ariana Kim's recital and the opera project The Pleasures of the Quarrel that are finally happening after two years of postponement! Jazz, keyboards, new compositions for sinfonietta, and more fill out the schedule. 

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