Hannah Krall: 'Knowing and understanding art, literature and music is vital to the longevity of our society'

Hannah Krall

Music

West Lawn, PA

What was your most profound turning point while at Cornell?

I took a music history class taught by Professor Rebecca Harris-Warrick my sophomore year. I fell in love with learning about music history, so I decided to become a musicologist.

What Cornell memory do you treasure the most?

Weiss releases new album

Zoe Weiss (ABD, Musicology) has produced and released a CD with her ensemble LeStrange Viols for the New Focus label. The disc, Æternum: Music of the Elizabethan Avant Garde from Add. MS 31390 is an outgrowth of her dissertation research into British Library Additional Manuscript 31390, “A booke of In nomines and other solfainge songes.” Having...

Ko awarded 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship

Composer Tonia Ko (DMA, 2017) has been awarded a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship. During her fellowship year, she will begin work on two large-scale projects: "Mapmakers", an opera for five soloists with libretto by Tyran Grillo, and one of her long-standing dreams, a bubble wrap concerto with chamber orchestra featuring the composer as soloist.

Reisnour appointed to Reed College

Nicole Reisnour has been appointed Visiting Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Reed College for the 2018—19 academic year. At Reed, she will teach general courses in ethnomusicology as well as seminars related to her research on Southeast Asian music, religion, and ethics. She is currently in the final stages of completing her dissertation...

Dwinell appointed to Jacobs School of Music

Samuel Dwinell (Ph.D. '17) has been appointed Postdoctoral Resident Scholar and Visiting Assistant Professor of Music in the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University Bloomington, beginning Fall 2018. Sam's Ph.D. dissertation, "Blackness in British Opera," received the 2016–17 Donald J. Grout Memorial Prize. Since defending his dissertation in...

Levenson appointed to Crane School of Music

Erica Levenson (Ph.D. '17) has been appointed Assistant Professor of Music History at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, after serving as a visiting lecturer at Syracuse University this year. She is currently completing an article that explores the transnational circulation of early eighteenth-century popular music, and beginning a book...

Shay Collins: 'Learning how to dance is enhancing how I think about and perform music'

Shay Collins

Music

Averill Park, NY

Why did you choose Cornell?

ASCAP Foundation awards two graduate composers

Piyawat Louilarpprasert and Charles Peck have both received a 2018 Morton Gould Young Composer Award from The ASCAP Foundation. This prize, which carries a financial award, is offered to talented young composers of concert music ranging in age from 12 to 30.Charles Peck currently serves as a Senior Lecturer at The University of the Arts in...

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

Jerrold Meinwald, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry Emeritus and a 2014 winner of the National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest honor for achievement in science and engineering, died April 23 in Ithaca. He was 91.

Cornell and NYS Baroque to perform Bach’s monumental St. Matthew Passion

On May 5 in Bailey Hall, the Cornell University Glee Club and Chorus, orchestral musicians from NYS Baroque, and six internationally-renowned vocal soloists, including tenor Rufus Müller, will perform the music of J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.