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“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 ‘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.
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.
A weekend-long celebration remembers Cornell's central role in Voyagers 1 and 2 and in the creation of the Golden Record.
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.
The economics department is transforming its undergraduate curriculum with help from an Active Learning Initiative grant.
Joshua Sadinsky '19 combines the passion and tenacity of a concert pianist with a heady love for nature.
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.”
The project, “Steven Stucky: Chamber Music,” honors Stucky, who passed away in 2016.
Assistant Professor Catherine Appert has been awarded this year's Richard Waterman Prize, bestowed by the Society for Ethnomusicology for “the best article by a junior scholar in the ethnomusicological study of popular music published within the previous year (in any publication).” Her article, "On Hybridity in African Popular Music: The Case of Senegalese Hip Hop," was published in ethnomusicology’s flagship journal, Ethnomusicolo
Pianist Andy Sheng ’20 is the winner of the 14th annual Cornell Concerto Competition, held Dec. 10 in Barnes Hall Auditorium. He performed the first movement of Beethoven’s Concerto No. 4 and will perform the piece as a featured soloist with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra in a concert March 11, 2018, in Bailey Hall.
Roberto Sierra, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Music, has been awarded the Tomás Luis de Victoria Prize, the highest honor given in Spain to a composer of Spanish or Latin American origin, by the Society of Spanish Composers (SGAE) Foundation.
The 2018 GRAMMY Award for Best Choral Performance was awarded to Donald Nally and The Crossing, for their recording of Gavin Bryar's "The Fifth Century." Stephen Spinelli, director of the Cornell Chorale and Chamber Singers, was one of The Crossing's 24 singers on the album.
“Monish,” by I.L. Peretz, is the story of an irascible Satan, his irresistible wife Lilith, and a young Jew who just wants to be left alone with his books. On Wednesday, February 21 at 7:30 pm the Cornell Jewish Studies Program and Cornell Department of Music present an evening of music and dance, inspired by Peretz’s classic poem.
A new performative sound kinetic installation by Assistant Professor Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri will premiere at the ECLAT Festival in Stuttgart, Germany on February 3. Titled Distanz, the work invites the audience to a refined and focused exploration of objects and sounds, carefully shaped and placed at different distances.
After Experimental Music, a symposium to explore current perspectives on experimental music studies, will bring scholars, performers, and artist-practitioners from across North America to Cornell University Feb. 8-11. In addition to academic presentations in Lincoln Hall, the symposium will feature two concerts of experimental music. All events are free and open to the public.
Both undergraduate musicians say they've been composing music since middle school.
Mila, a chamber opera with music by Eli Marshall, postdoctoral associate and visiting faculty member in the Department of Music, recently received its world premiere in Hong Kong.
The Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players (CCCP) will host The Switch Ensemble for a five-day artistic residency Feb. 26 to March 3 that will include workshops, a lecture recital, a recording session and two concerts.The concerts will feature pieces composed by Cornell graduate students and faculty, and performed by the Switch Ensemble.
The female a cappella group Sweet Honey In The Rock has used the power of music to advocate for justice, freedom, and democracy since the 1970s.
The Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) will present the 2018 Locally Grown Dance concert March 1-3 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts on the Kiplinger Theatre mainstage. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. nightly.
Young musicians from Ithaca High School Chamber Orchestra, the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra’s Youth Orchestra and the Cornell Synphony Orchestra will come together to perform a concert for the Ithaca community on Sunday, March 11.
John Hsu, the Old Dominion Foundation Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, died March 24 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was 86.Hsu joined the Department of Music in 1955 and was a member of the Cornell faculty for 50 years, retiring in 2005. He served as department chair from 1966 to 1971 and was named the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in 1976.