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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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The program includes Bach’s uplifting Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, Dvořák’s triumphant Te Deum—featuring soloists Rachel Schutz, soprano, and Jean Bernard Cerin, baritone—Brahms’ lyrical Schicksalslied. Performed by the Cornell Glee Club and Chorus, and the Cornell Symphony Orchestra, led by Joe Lerangis and Gabriela Gomez Estevez.
Location: Barnes Hall
Location: Anabel Taylor Chapel
Location: Lincoln Hall, 124
Location: Johnson Museum of Art, Robinson Lecture Hall, Floor 2L
Location: Bailey Hall
Location: Sage Chapel
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.
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.
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.
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