Performance

Performance is a fundamental part of Cornell’s cultural life. The Department of Music encourages music-making through a wide array of chamber and large ensembles, as well as its offerings in private lessons and directed coaching by members of the music faculty. Master classes, degree and non-degree recitals, contemporary music concerts, and an annual concerto competition supplement the music department’s concert offerings.

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Featured Ensemble Performance: Symphony Orchestra, 4/29/18

Cornell Symphony Orchestra (CSO), led by conductor Chris Younghoon Kim, features Tchaikovsky's Slavonic March and Symphony No. 6.

Music events

Feb 21

Friday 01:30 PM

Composers Forum: John Eagle

Lincoln Hall 316

Feb 21

Friday 07:30 PM

Cornell Concert Series presents: Pianist Jonathan Biss

Bailey Hall

Feb 23

Sunday 03:00 PM

Isabelle Demers, guest organist

Sage Chapel

Feb 26

Wednesday 12:30 PM

Midday Music for Organ: Guests Anne Laver and William Knuth (violin)

Sage Chapel

Feb 27

Thursday 04:30 PM

Music and Sound Studies Colloquium: Roger Moseley "Failing in a Cool Way: Gestures of Insouciance and Resignation in the Music of Louis Cole"

Lincoln Hall 124

Feb 28

Friday 07:30 PM

Jack Yarbrough, piano

Barnes Hall

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Music news

Chief Adjuah featured on Cornell Concert Series March 7

NPR has hailed Adjuah as “ushering in a new era of jazz."

Person sitting at a grand piano, playing thoughtfully

Pianist Jonathan Biss featured on Cornell Concert Series Feb. 21

Biss is a performer, teacher and musical thinker whose on-stage repertoire ranges from the core canon to contemporary commissions. He will perform works by Franz Schubert and Tyson Gholston Davis.

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New Klarman Fellows to join the College of Arts and Sciences

Pursuing research in sciences, social sciences, and humanities, the incoming Fellows will be the sixth cohort since the program was launched in 2019 with a major gift from Seth Klarman ’79 and Beth Schultz Klarman.

Concerto Competition announces three winners

This year's Cornell Concerto competition honored three students as winners.

Martin Davids, holding a violin, stands alongside David Yearsley in front of an organ. — Martin Davids and David Yearsley.

February 1: David Yearsley and Baroque violinist Martin Davids Album Release Recital

The newest album by False Azure Records, "In the Cabinet of Wonders with Scheidemann and Schop: Music for Organ and Violin from 17th-Century Hamburg," featuring violinist Martin Davids and organist David Yearsley will be presented in recital on February 1st at Anabel Taylor Chapel.