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Katherine Kilburn


Recipient of the Thelma A. Robinson Conducting Award, Ms. Kilburn has been Assistant Conductor of the National Repertory Orchestra, the El Paso Opera, the Hot Springs Music Festival, the Bowling Green State University Philharmonia, and the St. Louis Symphony Chorus, as well as Conductor of the Interlochen Arts Academy Wind Ensemble, Music Director and Conductor of the Greater New Haven Youth and Chamber Orchestras, Conductor of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Repertory Orchestra, Interim Director of the Vermont Youth Orchestra Association’s Philharmonia, and Guest Conductor of the Mansfield Symphony Orchestra, the Lawrence University Symphony Orchestra, the Green Bay Symphony, Ensemble X, Cleveland Opera Theater, the Lawrence University Opera Theater, and the Baldwin Wallace Symphony Orchestra​.

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Catherine Apert

Catherine Appert Receives Richard Waterman Prize

<p>Assistant Professor Catherine Appert has been awarded this year's <a href="http://www.ethnomusicology.org/?Prizes_Waterman">Richard Waterman Prize</a>, 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</p>

Sheng playing piano

Andy Sheng ’20 wins Cornell Concerto Competition

<p>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 <a href="http://www.cuorchestra.org/">Cornell Symphony Orchestra</a> in a concert March 11, 2018, in Bailey Hall.</p>

Roberto Sierra

Composer Roberto Sierra awarded Spain’s Tomás Luis de Victoria Prize

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.

Spinelli

Stephen Spinelli performs on 2018 GRAMMY-winning recording

<p>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." <a href="http://music.cornell.edu/stephen-spinelli">Stephen Spinelli,</a> director of the Cornell Chorale and Chamber Singers, was one of The Crossing's 24 singers on the album. </p>

Big Galut(e) Jewish Music Ensemble: Richard Sosinsky, Sasha Margolis, Robin Seletsky, Michael Leopold, Mark Rubinstein

Big Galut(e) Klezmer Ensemble Brings Epic Yiddish Tale to Life

“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.

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Music prof premieres work in Germany

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.

Marina Rosenfeld 2017 installation &quot;Deathstar&quot; at Portikus Frankfurt.

Experimental music symposium features concerts and speakers

<p><a href="http://afterexperimentalmusic.com/">After Experimental Music</a>, 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.</p>

Eli Marshall by big instrument

Chamber Opera "Mila" Premieres in Hong Kong

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.

Cornell hosts Switch Ensemble residency

<p>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.</p><p>The concerts will feature pieces composed by Cornell graduate students and faculty, and performed by the Switch Ensemble.</p>

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Timna Mayer


Timna Mayer’s expertise in violin pedagogy stems from a lifetime of dedication to the instrument that began in her hometown of Salzburg, Austria. Beginning her undergraduate work at Mozarteum University, she finished her Bachelor’s degree at Ithaca College in May, 2015. For over three years, Mayer offered supplemental violin lessons there as a teaching assistant to professors Nicholas DiEugenio and Susan Waterbury while studying. During this appointment, she curated a highly individualized teaching approach intent upon helping the student practice and realize musical achievements autonomously. With the string department on her side, Mayer started her own group scale classes, bringing all string instruments together in a setting of peer-to-peer teaching centered on tone production. Many of her teaching methods from this period have been documented and subsequently accoladed for their effectiveness and originality, namely by the International Fund, which continues to support Mayer’s pedagogical research in the United States.

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Wynton Marsalis

Jazz Legend Wynton Marsalis in concert with Cornell ensembles March 28

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John Hsu

Professor emeritus, musician and scholar John Hsu dies

<p><a href="https://music.cornell.edu/john-hsu">John Hsu</a>, the Old Dominion Foundation Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, died March 24 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was 86.</p><p>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.</p>

Ryan McCullough leaning on the open piano

Concert celebrates Ensemble X's 20th anniversary

<p>Twenty years ago, a musical collective of Cornell and Ithaca College faculty joined together to create an ensemble dedicated to presenting new musical works, and Ensemble X is still going strong. On Sunday, April 15 at 8:00pm at Barnes Hall, they will perform the blockbuster concert of their season in celebration.</p>

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Christine Bacareza Balance

Christine Bacareza Balance is Associate Professor of Performing &amp; Media Arts and Asian American Studies. Her writings on former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos, Asian American YouTube artists, Bruno Mars, Glee’s karaoke aesthetics, and spree killer Andrew Cunanan have been published in Women and Performance: a feminist journal, Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS), Women's Studies Quarterly (WSQ), and Theatre Journal. Her first book, Tropical Renditions: Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America (Duke University Press, 2016), examines how the performance and reception of post-World War II Filipino/Filipino American popular music compose Filipino identities, publics, and politics. It received the Best First Book award from the Filipino Studies caucus of the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS). Her current book project, Making Sense of Martial Law, analyzes how the former President Ferdinand Marcos and First Lady Imelda Marcos employed the sensorial and sensational, during their 21-year dictatorial rule, and how U.S.- and Philippines-based performances, events, and cultural objects critique the “Marcosian imaginary,” modeling new forms of cultural memory. With Prof. Lucy San Pablo Burns (UCLA), she is co-editor of the artist-scholar anthology, California Dreaming: Movement &amp; Place in the Asian American Imaginary (University of Hawai’i Press, 2020).

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New book explores Latin music experimentalism

Professor Alejandro Madrid's book includes essays about experimental practices in Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Cuba, Costa Rica and Colombia and among Latinos in the United States

Jerrold Meinwald

Jerrold Meinwald, 2014 National Medal of Science winner, dies at 91

<p><a href="http://chemistry.cornell.edu/jerrold-meinwald">Jerrold Meinwald</a>, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry Emeritus and a 2014 winner of the <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/03/president-obama-honors-nation-s-top-scientists-and-innovators">National Medal of Science</a>, the nation’s highest honor for achievement in science and engineering, died April 23 in Ithaca. He was 91.</p>

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