Sierra wins Latin Grammy for guitar sonata
Composer Roberto Sierra won for “Music from Cuba and Spain, Sierra: Sonata para Guitarra.”
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Students reflect on Marsalis visit: ‘He really touched my soul’
Wynton Marsalis visited campus Nov. 1-6 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tania León visits Cornell
The Cornell Department of Music welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tania León to campus November 18-19. Born in Havana, Cuba, León is highly regarded as a composer, conductor, educator, and advisor to arts organizations. In 2021, her orchestral work Stride, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music....
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ONEcomposer returns for second season
ONEComposer returns for a second season honoring Margaret Bonds.
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Sierra symphony premiered by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Professor Roberto Sierra's Symphony No. 6 received its world premiere on October 26, 2021, in a performance by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, under the direction of Domingo Hindoyan. The performance was then broadcast by BBC Radio 3, which is available to stream on-demand through November 26.
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Louilarpprasert commissioned for 100th celebration of Donaueschinger Musiktage
Piyawat Louilarpprasert's work Ohm-Na-Mo (โอม นะ โม) was recently premiered as a part of the 100th celebration of the Donaueschinger Musiktage festival in Germany. Louilarpprasert, a graduate student in composition, was commissioned by the Südwestrundfunk (SWR), along with four other composers; the resulting piece was a 70-minute collective...
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Arts Unplugged: Marsalis offers Nov. 6 concert with wind symphony
A.D. White Professor-at-Large Wynton Marsalis will visit campus the week of Nov. 1, offering a concert with the Barbara and Richard T. Silver ’50, MD ’53 Cornell Wind Symphony, open to the public, and a talk open to members of the Cornell community.
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New A&S program expands undergrad research opportunities
The Nexus Scholars program will leverage the student-to-faculty ratio and the vibrant research enterprise in A&S to expand opportunities for students, while also enhancing the culture of collaborative scholarship at Cornell.
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Israeli Chamber Project performs Oct. 20-21
On Wednesday, October 20th and Thursday, October 21st, current Steven Stucky Memorial Residency Ensemble the Israeli Chamber Project will finally be performing new works live by Cornell’s very own D.M.A composition students, including Joshua Biggs and John Eagle, as well as chamber music repertoire by Debussy, Milhaud, and Messiaen.Both Biggs and...
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Wynton Marsalis with the Cornell Wind Symphony
Cornell welcomes Pulitzer and Grammy-winning artist Wynton Marsalis as A.D. White Professor-at-Large. The Cornell Wind Symphony, conducted by Barbara & Richard T. Silver '50, MD '53 Assistant Professor of Music James Spinazzola, along with Marsalis and his rhythm section, perform a wide-ranging program including ragtime, blues, and jazz. The...
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