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Senior Lecturer and pianist Annie Lewandowski is featured on the newly released recording “All is Always Now: Fred Frith Live at The Stone,” available on Intakt Records from March 15. This three-CD box set is a curated selection of live concerts Fred Frith performed with collaborators at The Stone in New York City from 2006–16. Lewandowski is...
Assistant Professor Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri recently had a new composition titled Generator /Operator premiered by Klangforum Wien at the ECLAT Festival in Stuttgart, Germany on February 8. Papalexandri was asked to collaborate with Swiss animation artist Andrea Schneider to create a multidisciplinary work and addresses topics such as...
Cambridge University Press has announced the appointment of Professor Alejandro L. Madrid as co-editor of Twentieth-Century Music, joining co-editor Pauline Fairclough from January 2019:Alejandro is a cultural theorist whose historical, ethnographic, and critical work focuses on music and expressive culture from Latin America and Latinos in the...
This year will see the launch of the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards where the University’s historical keyboard instruments will be kept in concert-ready condition for historically-informed study, performance, and recording of classic and romantic repertoire. As part of the celebration of these instruments, the music department presents a...
The Department of Music is pleased to announce the Israeli Chamber Project has been selected as the inaugural ensemble for the Steven Stucky Memorial Residency for New Music. The ensemble will visit campus each semester during the 2019-20 and 2020-21 academic years for multi-day visits to work and perform with music students, both undergraduate...
Contact Points, by Assistant Professor Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri and Pe Lang, is a sound kinetic installation that seduces and puts physical forces in action with a captivating elegance. The sounds are produced when certain motor-driven flexible “tentacles” come in contact with fixed metallic pins, striking different tones in an emergent,...
David G. Yearsley, Music, first encountered the music of Johann Sebastian Bach as millions of people do—as a young piano student, learning from Bach’s Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach. Yearsley progressed to more complex music in Bach’s keyboard repertoire, and as a teenager, he began playing the organ, discovering the composer’s large body of...
The Department of Music's new video showcases the numerous ways students can become involved in music at Cornell. Savanna Lim, class of '21, served as cinematographer and editor of the film.To learn more about the Cornell Music experience, visit our Prospective Students page.
Rebecca Harris-Warrick, Music, is a detective of sorts. As a musicologist, she works with primary sources from the past, often piecing together the cryptic story of a musical composition that has fallen by the wayside. “I love the puzzle-solving element of my research, the mystery of trying to figure out what happened in the past,” she says. “Much...
Professor Roberto Sierra has received a Latin GRAMMY nomination for his work Montuno en forma de chacona, in the Best Contemporary Composition category. The work was recorded by Silvia Marquez, and released on the IBS label.This is Sierra's third Latin GRAMMY nomination, having been previously nominated for Variations on a Souvenir (Albany) in...
The Cornell Symphony Orchestra, Chris Younghoon Kim, music director, has achieved Second Place in The American Prize in Orchestral Performance competition, 2017-18, in the university division. The American Prize is a series of new, non-profit, national competitions unique in scope and structure, designed to recognize and reward the best performing...
Senior Lecturer Annie Lewandowski’s ensemble Powerdove will be performing live on BBC Radio 3’s flagship experimental music program, Late Junction, at the End of the Road Festival in Dorset, England. Powerdove is Lewandowski’s international ‘electic folk’ band, which includes French multi-instrumentalist Thomas Bonvalet and Hamburg-based...
The University of Pittsburgh Humanities Center recently conducted an interview with Professor Judith Peraino. In the interview Peraino spoke about her life and career, particularly her work with music and sexuality. Listen to the interview here.This fall, Professor Peraino will teach her class, Punk Culture: The Aesthetics and Politics of Refusal...
Are you thinking about a career in music? The music department at Cornell offers unique opportunities for the interaction of scholarship, performance, and composition through collaborations with fellow students and faculty members alike. Creativity and breadth are encouraged, and graduates from the department point to these traits as influential...
The Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies, with support from Cornell University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, presents a concert festival and conference, “The Organ in the Global Baroque,” September 6-8, 2018 at Cornell.Honoring the late organist and pedagogue Jacques van Oortmerssen, the conference will feature numerous...
The Cornell University Department of Music is pleased to announce the successful funding of the endowment for the Steven Stucky Memorial Residency for New Music. Through the generosity of more than 50 donors, the original goal was far surpassed, bringing the total endowment to more than $335,000 with another $45,000 pledged. Leadership gifts to...
Associate Professor Andrew Hicks has been appointed co-editor of a leading journal, the Journal of Musicology, published by University of California Press, effective July 1, 2018. As co-editor, Hicks will work to strengthen the Journal's international role as a leading disciplinary forum that both reflects the breadth of music studies today and...
The 2017-2018 academic year featured numerous highlights from programs and individuals. Click here to read our newsletter!
The Department of Music welcomes two Postdoctoral Associates, each beginning a two-year appointment starting July 1, 2018.Leila Tayeb, who is receiving her doctorate at Northwestern University this spring, will serve as the Stanford H. Taylor Postdoctoral Associate in Music and Islam in the Contemporary World. Her dissertation, Sonic Upheavals:...
Dear Friends of Music,In my office in Lincoln Hall, in the heart of Cornell’s central campus, I hear a student practicing a Beethoven sonata movement; two hours ago it was a piece by my colleague Roberto Sierra. Visitors to my office might spy framed photographs of Lili Krause and Artur Rubinstein, a Senegambian kora harp, an album by Hank...
Cornell University held its third annual Giving Day on March 20, with the Department of Music once again participating. For the second year, we directed all undesignated gifts to the Friends of Music Fund to support scholarships for music lessons. The Friends of Music is an initiative begun in 1977 under the leadership of Otto Doering ‘62 that...
The Spring Atkinson Forum in American Studies, “After Experimental Music,” brought over thirty scholars and artists to Cornell to debate and discuss the recent history and practice of adventurous music making. Organized by SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow Jeremy Strachan and Associate Professor of Music Benjamin Piekut, the event included two concerts,...
Three Musicology PhD candidates have been awarded pre-doctoral fellowships for 2018–19. Carlos Ramirez has received the Diversity Scholars Fellowship at Ithaca College. Ramirez writes, “I will design two new courses for the School of Music. In the fall I plan to teach an undergraduate course on Global Reggaeton; the spring course is still being...
The remarkable accomplishments of students in the Department of Music are recognized through annual awards, and we congratulate our students for the well-deserved honors listed below.The Ellen Gussman Adelson Prize, which rewards and encourages outstanding Cornell students excelling in instrumental music performance, went to David Cabuenas,...
Ariana Kim and the Aizuri Quartet have won the grand prize at the University of Michigan's M-Prize Chamber Music Competition.The group, comprising violinists Ariana Kim and Miho Saegusa, violist Ayane Kozasa, and cellist Karen Ouzounian, will receive $100,000 – the most substantial prize for chamber music in the world, according to the...