Miri Yampolsky and Xak Bjerken posing after performance

10th annual Mayfest features music, wine, yoga, poetry

<p>Under the artistic direction of pianists <a href="http://music.cornell.edu/people/faculty/profile/miri-yampolsky/">Miri Yampolsky </a>and <a href="http://music.cornell.edu/people/faculty/profile/xak-bjerken/">Xak Bjerken</a>, Cornell University’s Department of Music celebrates the 10th anniversary of Mayfest, its annual springtime festival of chamber music, May 19-23.</p>

Charles Peck

Doctoral student chosen for institute, wins commissioning competition

<p><a href="http://charlespeckmusic.com/">Charles Peck,</a> a doctoral student in music composition, was one of seven emerging composers selected as participants in the Minnesota Orchestra’s 15th annual Composer Institute. Peck also recently was named the winner of the Boston New Music Initiative’s (BNMI) fifth annual Commissioning Competition.</p>

Goldwin Smith Hall

Awards honor Cornell advisers, social scientists, humanists

<p>College of Arts and Sciences faculty members <a href="http://music.cornell.edu/people/faculty/profile/roger-moseley/">Roger Moseley</a> and <a href="http://neareasternstudies.cornell.edu/lori-khatchadourian">Lori Khatchadourian</a> received the Robert and Helen Appel Fellowship for Humanists and Social Scientists, and <a href="http://english.cornell.edu/margo-natalie-crawford">Margo Crawford </a>received the Robert A. and Donna B.</p>

Leo Ikenaga playing taiko drum

Alum tours the world with Japan drumming group

<p>This <a href="http://bit.ly/2taGeJv">Cornell Alumni Magazine article</a> tells the story of Leo Ikenaga ’12, a member of Kodo, an elite, 30-member Japanese musical group. The group is primarily focused on the dynamic drumming style known as taiko. Ikenega was introduced to taiko at Cornell, where he was a member and became musical director of Yamatai.</p>

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'Bitter Banquet' a feast for the senses

“Bitter Banquet,” an original staged song cycle composed and performed by Annie Lewandowski, lecturer in music, will be staged at the newly opened Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry St., Ithaca, on September 29 and 30.

Julia Adolphe

Alum receives young composer award

Julia Adolphe ‘10 is one of 19 recipients of the 2017 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. The awards are given to concert music composers up to 30 years of age whose works are selected through a national competition.

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Cornell Council for the Arts supports 35 new projects

<p>The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) is supporting 35 projects that will be presented on campus this academic year. Through its Individual Grant Program, the CCA awarded 15 grants of $2,500 each to Cornell faculty, departments and programs, and 20 grants of $1,000 each to undergraduate and graduate students and student organizations. Recipients were selected by a panel of faculty in the arts.</p>

Radio producers Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett standing together in black and white

NPR’s “The World According to Sound” comes to Klarman Hall

<p>Radio producers Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett, co-creators of the 90-second NPR radio show, “The World According to Sound,” will be on campus to offer a presentation at 7 p.m., Oct. 25 in the Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium in Klarman Hall. The event is free and open to the public.</p>

Klarman Hall

Joseph Hermann


Joseph Hermann is Director of Bands Emeritus at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee, where he served for 28 years. Under his leadership the Tennessee Tech Bands grew to a level of national prominence, over 25 new pieces were premiered, and the wind and percussion program became an influential force for bands in the Southeast. Graduates of Tech and past members of the TTU Bands are leading educators, performers in the premiere military bands, and orchestras, and composers, arrangers, recording engineers, and music business directors across the nation.

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Roger Moseley

Moseley wins musicological book award

Roger Moseley, associate professor of music, has been presented with the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society (AMS) for his 2016 book “Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo.”

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