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The Department of Music at Cornell is dedicated to excellence in the study of music that reflects a concern for the constant interaction of scholarship, performance, and composition by faculty members and students alike. Opportunities reflect the breadth of faculty expertise, across genre, region and time.

Music News

Center for Historical Keyboards boosted by $5 million gift

DMA Candidate Jack Yarbrough Releases Debut Recording

Five elephants of various sizes wade in a water hole

In ‘Silence’ spring conference, Fellows ‘attend to what is not there’ 

A dancer in the foreground stands upright, holding their left arm at an angle. In the background another dancer replicates the pose, and several other people take different poses or stand around

PMA’s ‘SHED’ performance features intermedia dance

about a dozen people in creative clothing sit in a richly decorated room

Vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth featured on Cornell Concert Series April 24

‘Collaborative creativity’ of Gamelan inspires student band

Morton Wan Awarded Junior Research Fellowship at University of Oxford

Cornell Concert Series hosts Sona Jobarteh, musician of the West African griot tradition

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Music events

Apr 25

Friday 01:30 PM

Composers Forum: Pe Lang

Lincoln Hall 316

Apr 25

Friday 07:30 PM

Keyboard Energies Symposium: Elemental Energies at the Keyboard

Barnes Hall

Apr 26

Saturday 11:45 AM

Keyboard Energies Symposium: David Yearsley Lecture-Recital

Anabel Taylor Chapel

Apr 26

Saturday 05:00 PM

Keyboard Energies: Gary Versace Organ Trio

Lincoln Hall B20

Apr 26

Saturday 07:30 PM

Cornell Chorus, Glee Club, and Symphony Orchestra Major Works Concert

Bailey Hall

Apr 27

Sunday 03:00 PM

Cornell Percussion Ensemble Concert

Lincoln Hall B20

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Chopin Masterclasses at CCHK

In collaboration with the International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments, the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards presents a weekend of masterclasses, lectures, and recitals drawing on its collection of "Chopin" instruments – original Pleyel, Broadwood, Graf, and Erard pianos.

Students’ island clean-up trip inspires multimedia projects

Students trekked to Cuttyhunk Island during spring break to clean up traps and other fishing gear that had been abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded.