Department Homepage
The College of Arts & Sciences
Grammy award-winning soprano Dawn Upshaw will engage with students and faculty at Cornell University and offer a public performance as part of her visit to campus the week of Oct. 19.
Chucho Valdés launches Cornell’s Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series 2026-27 concert season Oct. 23 at Baily Hall with an 85th birthday celebration featuring Joe Lovano and Etienne Charles. The performance highlights the NEA Jazz Master’s influence on Afro-Cuban jazz.
Pianist Daniel Anastasio ’11, who was a music and philosophy major in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, is on a mission to make classical music welcoming.Through social media videos and live performances he breaks down classical music for new and casual listeners.
Environmental photographer James Balog launches the 2026-27 schedule of Cornell's A.D. White Professors-at-Large Sept. 16-17 with a lecture on glacier retreat. The fall series also features visits from artists, scientists and public intellectuals across disciplines with many ties to the College of Arts and Sciences.
Cornell College of Arts and Sciences scholars are among the 42 faculty members and staff from 19 Cornell schools, colleges and units named Engaged Fellows for 2026-2027, the largest cohort since the program’s launch in 2013.
Cibele Moura (PhD, Music and Sound Studies, 2025) has accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami.
Graduate students connected to Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences departments — history, linguistics, Asian studies, history of art and visual studies, government, comparative iiterature, Romance studies and music —have received Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies East Asia Program fellowships and grants for the 2026-2027 academic year.
Cornell University’s 2026-27 Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series will feature global artists spanning Afro-Cuban jazz, classical music and cross-cultural traditions at Bailey Hall. The season schedule includes Chucho Valdés, Time for Three with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra, Isabelle Faust and Sunny Jain.
Cornell University alumni highlight June 2026 book releases, including a College of Arts & Sciences professor's punk-rock history and alumni works on academia, civil rights, and poetry.
MUS 1213 Students Partner with Center for Coastal Studies to Document Marine Debris
Cornell University baritone Jean Bernard Cerin released album tracing evolution of Haitian Creole song Lisette across global history. The Lisette Project, in the College of Arts & Sciences, expands Haitian classical music research and performance.
The Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards announces historical keyboard festival and public concerts June 23–27. The Chamber Music Collective and Fortepiano Tech Academy highlight collaborative performance, rare repertoire, and hands-on training with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century instruments.
The Herbert Gussman Jazz Septet at Cornell has been recognized with a DownBeat 2026 Student Music Award in the category of Small Jazz Ensemble/Combo - College/Undergraduate Outstanding Performance.
Laurel Gilmer of Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences competed on Jeopardy! May 12, showcasing trivia expertise after a rigorous audition process. The music department events director highlighted preparation strategies and contestant experience on the iconic quiz show.
Several Cornell College of Arts and Sciences graduate students and one faculty member from the college were honored with 2026 Graduate Excellence and Impact Awards. Presented May 13, the awards honor leadership, service and mentorship.
Cornell University honored 31 Merrill Presidential Scholars May 19, recognizing academic excellence and mentorship. College of Arts and Sciences senior Carolina Aguilera-Garza and peers celebrated influential teachers and Cornell mentors shaping leadership, scholarship, and public impact.
The department celebrates eight music majors in 2026, including many double-majors: Turner Aldrich (Environment and Sustainability), Felicia Chen (Computer Science), Isaac Dorio (Anthropology), Catherine Frank (Government), Junoh Lee, Evelyn Smith (Economics), Derek Thompson (Computer Science), Joseph Wolff
Performed by baritone Jean Bernard Cerin, soprano Michele Kennedy, and keyboardist Nicholas Mathew, LISETTE traces the three-century journey of Lisette quitté la plaine, the earliest known Haitian Creole song text, following its evolution across Haiti, France, and the United States.
Cornell’s College of Arts & Sciences honors the winners of its 2026 teaching and advising awards. Faculty members Nicole Giannella, Karola Mészáros and Landon Schnabel stand out this year, earning major awards for excellence; many instructors and teaching assistants received recognition, as well.
PhD candidate Mark Mahoney has been awarded a prize for Best Research Paper in Jazz and Improvised Music by the Jazz & Improvisation Study Group of the American Musicological Society. The essay, titled "'Europe’s Answer to Woodstock': Genre, Politics, and Genre Politics at the 1969 Actuel Festival,” examines the 1969 Actuel Festival held in Amougies,…
After a two-year break, Cornell University music faculty are bringing back Mayfest from May 15-19 in Barnes Hall. The event will feature music from Bach to Kurtág, including works by Arensky, Dvořák, Puccini, Brahms and a new commission by Cornellian Joseph Phibbs, a tribute to his teacher, Steven Stucky.
Violinist Ariana Kim, faculty member in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences explores improvisation in pieces from classical to folk traditions in her new album, “(un)common thread,” which will drop from Saffron Soul Records May 26. A May 3 listening party will celebrate the release.
At Cornell University, Christopher J. Miller and Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit present Thai-inspired gamelan music in Klarman Hall’s Groos Family Atrium on April 26, marking Wangpaiboonkit’s arrival as assistant professor.
Student Ambassador Alexandra Hui, Class of 2029, describes finding mentorship and belonging in Cornell Chamber Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra.