
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
/news/cheryl-engelhardt-02-rising-star-new-age-musicHer latest album snagged a Grammy nomination—and she once scored a Cheerios commercial starring Grumpy Cat
/news/cheryl-engelhardt-02-rising-star-new-age-musicOur 34 new faculty will enrich the College of Arts & Sciences with creative ideas in a vast array of topics.
/news/college-welcomes-new-faculty-2023-24Gabriela Gómez Estévez, Music
/news/new-faculty-gabriela-gomez-estevezElevator is out of service
/news/event-notice-barnes-hall-elevator-out-serviceCornell's collection is the largest hip-hop collection in the world.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/08/breaking-beyonce-hip-hop-collection-empowers-studentsFrom fortepianos to pipe organs, the Hill boasts one of the world’s leading collections of performance-ready vintage instruments.
/news/campus-center-holds-keys-musical-historyRachel 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-hopkinsThomas 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-legacyThis 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?
/news/save-date-sustaining-keyboards-symposium-sept-15-16James Spinazzola's new book presents a new approach to the performance tour
/news/spinazzola-releases-new-bookThrough 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.
/news/poll-arranges-music-guitar-resonate-past-and-presentDepartment Chair Ben Piekut reflects on the past academic year
/news/newsletter-2023-letter-chairThe Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability’s Academic Venture Fund will support 11 new projects across nine colleges; three include Arts & Sciences investigators.
/news/cornell-atkinson-awards-16m-seed-grantsHan Xu (DMA, 2023) has been named a postdoctoral fellow in composition and sound studies at the School of the Arts at Peking University.
/news/han-xu-named-postdoctoral-fellow-peking-universityA doctoral student in music with a concentration in music and sound studies, Vigilante studies how music, sound, and performance are used to create “unreality."
/news/student-spotlight-nic-vigilante“Helping students realize their greatest potential is at the core of our mission in the College of Arts & Sciences."
/news/faculty-honored-exemplary-teaching-advisingRachel Horner and Kate Thorpe win Spencer Prize
/news/rachel-horner-and-kate-thorpe-win-spencer-prizeThree paperbacks of Benjamin Piekut's work released
/news/three-piekut-paperbacksThis 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.
/news/nexus-scholars-program-expands-research-opportunities-101-studentsThe fellowships will provide a stipend as well as funding for research and other activities.
/news/two-doctoral-students-selected-mellonacls-dissertation-innovation-fellowsIn 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.
/news/chopin-masterclasses-cchkA new recording of Roberto Sierra's works has garnered a rave review.
/news/new-recording-sierra-worksCornell's international music festival welcomes longtime friends and new collaborators for five world-class concerts May 19-23.
/news/mayfest-chamber-music-festival-returns-ithaca-may-19-23Hannah Robins is a biological sciences and music major.
/news/i-co-founded-biology-undergraduate-research-programMiles Friday will join the faculty at the University of Texas San Antonio
/news/friday-appointed-utsaStudents trekked to Cuttyhunk Island during spring break to clean up traps and other fishing gear that had been abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded.
/news/students-island-clean-trip-inspires-multimedia-projectsMusic department concerts offer a major works concert, a jazz trumpet collaboration, a hope-filled organ recital and more, April 27 – May 2.
/news/mozarts-requiem-jazz-trumpeter-highlight-late-april-concert-scheduleEthnomusicologist Deborah Justice analyzes how White American mainline Protestants used internal musical controversies to negotiate their shifting position within a diversifying nation.
/news/book-examines-mainline-christian-worship-warsFeaturing a unique instrumentation of trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, and baritone voice, loadbang headlines a week of great musical performances April 11-17.
/news/ensemble-residence-loadbang-performs-april-15Ph.D. candidate Thomas Cressy has received a prestigious fellowship at Cambridge
/news/cressy-receives-cambridge-fellowshipRemaining 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.
/news/dead-co-play-benefit-barton-hall-honoring-legendary-77-show“Ellenberg is a distinguished mathematician and a master of public communication."
/news/math-communicator-visits-campus-explore-math-everyday-lifeMark 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!
/news/cornell-giving-day-march-16-0Anna Steppler has won a coveted Junior Research Fellowship and Peterhouse, Cambridge.
/news/anna-steppler-receives-cambridge-fellowshipMaria Schneiders’ “Winter Morning Walks” headlines the program in Barnes Hall.
/news/grammy-winning-soprano-dawn-upshaw-performs-feb-24Alex Nik Pasqualini will share their story of hope in a talk as part of the Soup & Hope series on Feb. 23.
/news/doctoral-student-speak-soup-hope-seriesOrchestral works by Elizabeth Ogonek with recent and upcoming performances
/news/ogonek-pieces-performed-around-worldThe Sierra Duo – John Haines-Eitzen, cello, and Matthew Bengtson, piano – will Sierra’s “Cuatro Piezas para cello y piano” and other pieces Jan. 29.
/news/new-work-prof-roberto-sierra-featured-jan-29-concert"Welcoming students to campus and providing them with the opportunity to connect to faculty and each other is a joy."
/news/first-years-share-their-transformational-journeys-so-farThe 18th Concerto Competition highlighted the exceptional musical talent on campus
/news/pianist-brian-wang-wins-concerto-competitionAnnette Richards' new book was recently published by the University of Chicago Press
/news/annette-richards-publishes-new-book-temple-fame-and-friendshipLlhuros – 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.”
/news/fictional-civilization-leaves-behind-lasting-legacyProfessor Marianthi Papalexandri Alexandri won the CHF 24,000 Wekbeitrage des Kanton Zurich award for a new sound installation
/news/papalexandri-wins-award-canton-zurichThe minor is distinctive in including courses from many disciplines, from across Cornell’s schools and colleges.
/news/students-can-now-choose-new-minor-data-scienceThe program matches undergraduate students with summer opportunities to work side by side with faculty from across the College.
/news/nexus-scholar-applications-open-summer-20232022-2023 Stucky Residency ensemble loadbang started off their two-part visit to Cornell’s campus with a bang.
/news/reflections-loadbangs-first-stucky-residency-visitRead more about their residency events
/news/taceti-ensemble-visits-cornell-biennial-projectCornell University Press has recently published Sounding Out the State of Indonesian Music, co-edited by Senior Lecturer Christopher J. Miller and Andrew McGraw.
/news/christopher-j-miller-publishes-new-volume-sounding-out-state-indonesian-music