Cheryl Engelhardt ’02 Is a rising star in new age music
Her latest album snagged a Grammy nomination—and she once scored a Cheerios commercial starring Grumpy Cat
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The College welcomes new faculty for 2023-24
Our 34 new faculty will enrich the College of Arts & Sciences with creative ideas in a vast array of topics.
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New Faculty: Gabriela Gómez Estévez
Gabriela Gómez Estévez, Music
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Event Notice: Barnes Hall elevator out of service
Elevator is out of service
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From breaking to Beyoncé: Hip Hop Collection empowers students
Cornell's collection is the largest hip-hop collection in the world.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/08/breaking-beyonce-hip-hop-collection-empowers-students
Campus center holds the ‘keys’ to musical history
From fortepianos to pipe organs, the Hill boasts one of the world’s leading collections of performance-ready vintage instruments.
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A&S dean Jayawardhana named provost at Johns Hopkins
Rachel Bean, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor in the Department of Astronomy and senior associate dean for math and science, has been named interim A&S dean.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/07/dean-jayawardhana-named-provost-johns-hopkins
Music student helps expand Ethiopian nun’s musical legacy_image
Thomas Feng, a doctoral student in performance practice, is identifying and cataloging the piano music of the late Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru, a composer with a cult following.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/07/music-student-helps-expand-ethiopian-nuns-musical-legacy
Save the Date for Sustaining Keyboards symposium Sept. 15-16
This symposium asks how notions of sustainability might prompt us to think anew about keyboard histories, embedded as they are in ecologies of nature and commerce, artifice and art, craft and industry. To what extent are those histories, and the instruments that embody them, sustainable into an uncertain future?
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Spinazzola releases new book
James Spinazzola's new book presents a new approach to the performance tour
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Poll arranges music for guitar to resonate with past and present
Through historical research and instrumental innovations – like playing on a seven-string guitar – Michael Poll has developed a framework to "translate" lute and violin pieces for guitar.
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Newsletter 2023: Letter from the Chair
Department Chair Ben Piekut reflects on the past academic year
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Cornell Atkinson awards $1.6M in seed grants
The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability’s Academic Venture Fund will support 11 new projects across nine colleges; three include Arts & Sciences investigators.
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Han Xu named postdoctoral fellow at Peking University
Han Xu (DMA, 2023) has been named a postdoctoral fellow in composition and sound studies at the School of the Arts at Peking University.
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Student Spotlight: Nic Vigilante
A doctoral student in music with a concentration in music and sound studies, Vigilante studies how music, sound, and performance are used to create “unreality."
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A&S faculty honored for exemplary teaching, advising
“Helping students realize their greatest potential is at the core of our mission in the College of Arts & Sciences."
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Rachel Horner and Kate Thorpe win Spencer Prize
Rachel Horner and Kate Thorpe win Spencer Prize
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Three Piekut Paperbacks
Three paperbacks of Benjamin Piekut's work released
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Nexus Scholars Program expands research opportunities to 101 students
This summer, 101 students in the College of Arts and Sciences will take part in groundbreaking research on campus with 61 faculty as part of the Nexus Scholars Program.
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Two doctoral students selected as Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellows
The fellowships will provide a stipend as well as funding for research and other activities.
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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.
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New recording of Sierra works
A new recording of Roberto Sierra's works has garnered a rave review.
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Mayfest chamber music festival returns to Ithaca May 19-23
Cornell's international music festival welcomes longtime friends and new collaborators for five world-class concerts May 19-23.
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'I co-founded the Biology Undergraduate Research Program'
Hannah Robins is a biological sciences and music major.
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Friday appointed at UTSA
Miles Friday will join the faculty at the University of Texas San Antonio
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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.
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Mozart’s Requiem, jazz trumpeter highlight late-April concert schedule
Music department concerts offer a major works concert, a jazz trumpet collaboration, a hope-filled organ recital and more, April 27 – May 2.
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Book examines the mainline Christian ‘Worship Wars’
Ethnomusicologist Deborah Justice analyzes how White American mainline Protestants used internal musical controversies to negotiate their shifting position within a diversifying nation.
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Ensemble-in-residence loadbang performs April 15
Featuring a unique instrumentation of trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, and baritone voice, loadbang headlines a week of great musical performances April 11-17.
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Cressy receives Cambridge fellowship
Ph.D. candidate Thomas Cressy has received a prestigious fellowship at Cambridge
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Dead & Co. to play benefit at Barton Hall, honoring legendary ’77 show
Remaining members of the Grateful Dead will return to play a benefit concert in Barton Hall on May 8 as part of the band’s final tour.
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Math communicator visits campus to explore math in everyday life
“Ellenberg is a distinguished mathematician and a master of public communication."
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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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Anna Steppler receives Cambridge Fellowship
Anna Steppler has won a coveted Junior Research Fellowship and Peterhouse, Cambridge.
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GRAMMY-winning soprano Dawn Upshaw performs Feb. 24
Maria Schneiders’ “Winter Morning Walks” headlines the program in Barnes Hall.
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Doctoral student to speak in Soup & Hope series
Alex Nik Pasqualini will share their story of hope in a talk as part of the Soup & Hope series on Feb. 23.
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Ogonek pieces performed around the world
Orchestral works by Elizabeth Ogonek with recent and upcoming performances
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New work by Prof. Roberto Sierra featured in Jan. 29 concert
The Sierra Duo – John Haines-Eitzen, cello, and Matthew Bengtson, piano – will Sierra’s “Cuatro Piezas para cello y piano” and other pieces Jan. 29.
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First-years share their transformational journeys ... so far
"Welcoming students to campus and providing them with the opportunity to connect to faculty and each other is a joy."
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Pianist Brian Wang wins Concerto Competition
The 18th Concerto Competition highlighted the exceptional musical talent on campus
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Annette Richards publishes new book: The Temple of Fame and Friendship
Annette Richards' new book was recently published by the University of Chicago Press
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Fictional civilization leaves behind lasting legacy
Llhuros – its relics, rituals, poetry, and music – as well as the academic commentary it inspired, "documents just one tiny little sliver of Cornell’s history. But it’s a fascinating one.”
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Papalexandri wins award from the Canton of Zurich
Professor Marianthi Papalexandri Alexandri won the CHF 24,000 Wekbeitrage des Kanton Zurich award for a new sound installation
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Students can now choose new minor in data science
The minor is distinctive in including courses from many disciplines, from across Cornell’s schools and colleges.
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Nexus Scholar applications open for summer 2023
The program matches undergraduate students with summer opportunities to work side by side with faculty from across the College.
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Reflections on loadbang's first Stucky Residency visit
2022-2023 Stucky Residency ensemble loadbang started off their two-part visit to Cornell’s campus with a bang.
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Tacet(i) Ensemble visits Cornell for Biennial project
Read more about their residency events
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Christopher J. Miller publishes new volume: Sounding Out the State of Indonesian Music
Cornell University Press has recently published Sounding Out the State of Indonesian Music, co-edited by Senior Lecturer Christopher J. Miller and Andrew McGraw.
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