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Reunion 2022 features host of A&S events

A number of special events are planned in the College of Arts & Sciences to celebrate Reunion 2022.

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Instrument-building festival challenges, inspires

Hosted by the Cornell ReSounds Project, the FutureSounds Festival featured guest builders and performers as well as newly designed instruments and compositions by Cornell students.

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The University Chorus Makes Beautiful Music

Originally known as the Women’s Glee Club, the group will celebrate its centennial at Reunion ’22.

'I just published my first first-author paper'

Emily Hurwitz is a music and psychology major.

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A&S students win prestigious Truman, Goldwater scholarships

Three students in the College of Arts & Sciences have been honored with scholarships for their research and graduate study.

Sierra named on Best Latin American Composers list

BBC honor for Roberto Sierra

Student Spotlight: Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei

The doctoral candidate in music from Denton, Texas studies music composition with a focus on time malleability.

Joe Lerangis

Joe Lerangis performs regularly as a conductor and tenor internationally and across the United States. As the Priscilla E. Browning Director of Choral Music at Cornell, they conduct the university's two flagship choirs, the Chorus and the Glee Club, lead domestic and international tours, conduct music for university-wide events, and generally oversee the choral program. Previously, Joe has worked asDirector of Choral Activities at Colgate University, Director of Music at Spiritus Christi Church in Rochester, NY, and Assistant Conductor of both the Yale Glee Club and the Yale Camerata. They have guest conducted choirs around the United States, and given clinics with vocal ensembles of all styles and sizes. As a conductor of instrumental music, Joe was a fellow at the Miami Music Festival and the Cortona Sessions for New Music, and conducted the Yale Philharmonia, New Music New Haven, Lviv Philharmonic, Györ Philharmonic, Cornell Wind Symphony, and Cornell Symphony Orchestra. Joe has studied Mongolian music for over a decade, and has received fellowships from the J. William Fulbright Foundation and the American Center for Mongolian Studies to support their work. In 2017, they reached the final round of Mongolia’s nationally-televised pop idol competition, winning the Judge’s Choice Award and the Soyol Elch-Tugeegch Duuchin award from the Mongolian Ministry of Culture for their performance of Mongolian songs. While at Yale, Joe received both the Robert Shaw Prize in Conducting and the Friedmann Thesis Prize. A champion of new music, they regularly commission and premier new works, and they have conducted several international premieres of Mongolian repertoire in particular. Joe is a co-founder of New Muses Project, and holds previous degrees from Yale School of Music, the Eastman School of Music, Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies (Hopkins-Nanjing Center), Kenyon College, and most proudly, the Bronx High School of Science.

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Composer Roberto Sierra elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters

The award is considered the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in the United States.

Michael Truesdell

Percussionist Mike Truesdell is the third successive “Mike” to be the percussion faculty at Cornell University (previous faculty members were the amazing Mike Compitello and Mike Sparhuber)!Mike Truesdell has performed with the New York City Ballet, International Contemporary Ensemble, Lucerne Festival Ensemble conducted by Pierre Boulez, and with members of the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, Chamber Music Society, and Alarm Will Sound, among others. Additionally, he has recorded with Renée Fleming, Vanguard Jazz Orchestra (Grammy® nominated), Charles Wuorinen, Gil Evans Project (Grammy® nominated), as well as co-producing the Zeltsman Marimba Festival double-disc of Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba, where he first met Cornell University’s illustrious emeritus professor Steven Stucky!

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Music duo contributes to new album

The talents of two Cornell music faculty members are featured on a newly-released recording, “Beauty Intolerable: Songs of Sheila Silver.”

Marianthi Papalexandri performs her work — Michael Aust

Papalexandri awarded Aurelie Nemours Prize

Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri has been awarded the Aurelie Nemours Prize with Pe Lang.

Fellowship will fund study of Warhol’s impact on ’70s music

Music Professor Judith Peraino won the 12-month fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Benjamin P. Skoronski

Benjamin P. Skoronski (he/him) is a Ph.D. student in Music and Sound Studies at Cornell University. He studies the intellectual history of music in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States, with a focus on the music scholarship of social progressives, radical reformers, and intellectuals in the years preceding the formation of U.S. musicology. His research examines the proto-musicological discourses marginalized at the discipline’s founding—the scholarship by, of, and for underrepresented communities that constitutes what he provisionally terms an “undisciplined musicology.” His work on these intellectual histories has led to parallel interests in U.S. folk music and folklore, historiographies of comparative musicology, and the intersections of race, class, gender, and professionalism. Skoronski has presented at the annual meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology, and the Society for American Music, as well as the 2022 quinquennial congress of the International Musicological Society. He is the recipient of the Presser Scholar Award, the University of Arizona Medici Scholarship, and the UofA School of Music’s 2021–2022 Distinguished Graduate Student Award. Before beginning his doctoral studies at Cornell, Skoronski was a lecturer at the University of Arizona’s Fred Fox School of Music.

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Addi Liu

Addi Liu’s research investigates the transmissions of music theory and material culture between early modern Europe and late Ming/early Qing China, with a focus on musical hand diagrams. He has presented papers and lecture recitals at the meetings of the American Musicological Society, Society of Seventeenth-Century Music (Irene Alm Memorial Prize), Musicking: Culturally Informed Performance Practices, Case Western Reserve University’s Music Colloquium Series, Instruments of Global Music Theory Symposium, and the Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music.

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Center for Historical Keyboards summer academy hosts 12 young piano stars

Young artists from around the world will be immersed in one of the world’s most significant collections of performance-ready historical pianos, with performances open to the public August 1-6.

Class of 2022

List of graduates

Upcoming Events

Oct 16

Thursday 12:30 PM

Midday Music in Lincoln: Bach, Balch, and Brahms (CU Music)

Lincoln Hall B20

Oct 16

Thursday 04:30 PM

Music and Sound Studies Colloquium: Rachel Horner "Finding What Is Lost: The Intangible Archive of València’s Falles Festival"

Lincoln Hall 124

Oct 16

Thursday 07:30 PM

Experimental Sound Project 2025(3) (CU Music)

Barnes Hall

Oct 17

Friday 05:00 PM

CCHK Salon: Prelude To A Sonata: Katherine Balch & Brahms' Cello Sonata in E Minor, Op. 38 (CU Music)

A. D. White House

Oct 18

Saturday 07:30 PM

Cornell Jazz Ensemble Concert (CU Music)

Bailey Hall

Oct 22

Wednesday 12:30 PM

Midday Music for Organ: Anne Spink and Michael Guarneiri (CU Music)

Sage Chapel

Oct 23

Thursday 04:30 PM

Music and Sound Studies Colloquium: Lester Hu "Dionysian Yue, Apollonian Li: Toward a Mythopoesis of Comparison"

Lincoln Hall 124

Oct 24

Friday 07:30 PM

Shostakovich's Piano Cycles (CU Music)

Barnes Hall

Oct 26

Sunday 04:00 PM

Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series presents: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with James Ehnes, violin

Bailey Hall

Oct 28

Tuesday 07:30 PM

Anthony Romaniuk Recital (CU Music)

Barnes Hall

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The Cornell | Westfield Center for Historical Keyboards announces events from July 31-August 6 in conjunction with its inaugural Forte/Piano Summer Academy. Recitals, lectures, and master classes are free and open to the public. Visit historicalkeyboards.org for more detail and information about the artist-faculty and participating young artists.

101 Lincoln Hall / 256 Feeney Way
Ithaca, NY 14853
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Cibele Moura wins Sanjek Student Paper Prize

loadbang ensemble, four musicians with instruments — Tatiana Daubek

loadbang selected as 2022-23 Stucky Residency for New Music ensemble

Jack Yarbrough

Jack Yarbrough is a pianist and improviser working in the fields of contemporary avant-garde and experimental music.He is largely devoted to the solo piano recital - not as virtuosic spectacle, but as a means of expanding ones perception around an already familiar sonic and harmonic palette.He has collaborated with many composers and friends, such as Timothy McCormack, Bunita Marcus, Richard Barrett, Victoria Cheah, Jack Langdon, Kory Reeder, and Bahar Royaee.He is a member ofAlinéa, where he has received press coverage and awards nominations.He was born outside of Birmingham, Alabama, and currently resides in Ithaca, NY.Important teachers include Stephen Drury, Xak Bjerken, Michael Kirkendoll and Jack Winerock. He holds degrees from the University of Kansas and The Boston Conservatory.

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Upcoming Events

Oct 16

Thursday 12:30 PM

Midday Music in Lincoln: Bach, Balch, and Brahms (CU Music)

Lincoln Hall B20

Oct 16

Thursday 04:30 PM

Music and Sound Studies Colloquium: Rachel Horner "Finding What Is Lost: The Intangible Archive of València’s Falles Festival"

Lincoln Hall 124

Oct 16

Thursday 07:30 PM

Experimental Sound Project 2025(3) (CU Music)

Barnes Hall

Oct 17

Friday 05:00 PM

CCHK Salon: Prelude To A Sonata: Katherine Balch & Brahms' Cello Sonata in E Minor, Op. 38 (CU Music)

A. D. White House

Oct 18

Saturday 07:30 PM

Cornell Jazz Ensemble Concert (CU Music)

Bailey Hall

Oct 22

Wednesday 12:30 PM

Midday Music for Organ: Anne Spink and Michael Guarneiri (CU Music)

Sage Chapel

Oct 23

Thursday 04:30 PM

Music and Sound Studies Colloquium: Lester Hu "Dionysian Yue, Apollonian Li: Toward a Mythopoesis of Comparison"

Lincoln Hall 124

Oct 24

Friday 07:30 PM

Shostakovich's Piano Cycles (CU Music)

Barnes Hall

Oct 26

Sunday 04:00 PM

Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series presents: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with James Ehnes, violin

Bailey Hall

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The Cornell | Westfield Center for Historical Keyboards' inaugural Forte/Piano Summer Academy is underway, and a variety of recitals, lectures, and master classes are free and open to the public.

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Visit historicalkeyboards.org for more detail and information about the artist-faculty and participating young artists.

101 Lincoln Hall / 256 Feeney Way
Ithaca, NY 14853
United States

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Matías de Roux

Matías de Roux is a composer interested in perception, cognition, and timbre. He holds a bachelor’s degree in music composition from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia) where he studied with Guillermo Gaviria and Juan Antonio Cuellar. Matías also holds a DNSPM and an MA from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP) where he studied composition with Frédéric Durieux and electronic music composition with Luis Naón and Yan Maresz.

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Humanities scholars begin first year undertaking diverse paths of discovery

Students in the program undertake their own independent, interdisciplinary undergraduate research in the humanities.

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More than $12M donated to support students in 24 hours

On Cornell’s eighth Giving Day, held March 16, 15,905 alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends from more than 80 countries made gifts totaling a record-breaking $12,268,629.