Upcoming Events

Apr 25
Friday 01:30 PM

Composers Forum: Pe Lang

Lincoln Hall 316
Apr 25
Friday 07:30 PM

Keyboard Energies Symposium: Elemental Energies at the Keyboard

Barnes Hall
Apr 26
Saturday 11:45 AM

Keyboard Energies Symposium: David Yearsley Lecture-Recital

Anabel Taylor Chapel
Apr 26
Saturday 05:00 PM

Keyboard Energies: Gary Versace Organ Trio

Lincoln Hall B20
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Music Events May 23-28

Today and tomorrow are the last days of the Mayfest chamber music festival! Tonight's concert is sold out, but a standby line will be available at the door. There are still tickets available for Tuesday's concert, which includes a performance from Dawn Upshaw and works by Schumann and Mendelssohn.

Later this week, celebrate commencement with performances from the Cornell Wind Symphony and the Chorus and Glee Club!

Additional Information

Please visit the Mayfest website for driving directions and parking information for those performances. There is currently a construction project impacting parking near Barnes Hall, so please allow extra time for parking. More details may be found here. For information about parking and accessibility at other venues, visit the Department of Music website.

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Joe Lerangis

Joe Lerangis has appeared as a conductor and tenor both internationally and across the United States. Joe has worked asDirector of Choral Activities at Colgate University where they reestablished the choral program after its Covid dormancy, Director of Music at Spiritus Christi church in Rochester, NY, and Assistant Conductor of both the Yale Glee Club and the Yale Camerata.Joe has studied choral conducting with William Weinert, Marguerite Brooks, Jeffrey Douma, and André J. Thomas, and orchestral conducting with Donald Schleicher, Mark Gibson, Brad Lubman, Larry Rachleff, and Carl St. Clair. Previously, Joe spent several years in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, where they completed a Fulbright fellowship and founded and developed the first music department in a general education secondary school in Mongolia to offer youth choir, orchestra, and band programs. In 2017, they reached the final round of Mongolia’s nationally televised pop idol competition, winning the Judge’s Choice Award and an award from the Mongolian Ministry of Culture. While at Yale, Joe received both the Robert Shaw Prize in Conducting and the Friedmann Thesis Prize for outstanding work for their doctoral dissertation, “Hybridized Urtyn Duu and the Making of a Mongolian Choral Idiom in the Works of Byambasurengiin Sharav.” They hold previous degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies, Nanjing University, Kenyon College, and most proudly, the Bronx High School of Science.

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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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Kirsten Marshall

Kirsten Marshall, violinist and conductor, is known throughout the Americas for her dynamic energy and passionate work with young musicians. She is Director of the Orchestral Program and a violin faculty member of Ithaca Talent Education, as well as a Visiting Lecturer in Suzuki Pedagogy at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. In 2017 Ms. Marshall was appointed the conductor of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra Youth Orchestra (NY). She is a Suzuki Association of the Americas registered Teacher Trainer in violin. Ms. Marshall received Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) with majors in violin performance and Suzuki pedagogy. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in music education from Case Western Reserve University, with an emphasis in strings. Her conducting studies were with David Einfeldt (Hartt School of Music), Carl Topilow, and Louis Lane (CIM). She is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, the National Music Honor Society.

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Tamara Acosta

Tamara Acosta soprano, is the Interim Director of the Voice Program at Cornell and an Assistant Professor of Voice at Ithaca College. In addition, she is a co-founder of ONEcomposer, a non-profit organization shining a light on historically excluded musical excellence.

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Michael Poll

Conductor and classical guitarist Michael Poll has performed across North America, South America, and Europe, including in Barbican Hall, Wigmore Hall, and the National Theatre of Panama. His debut guitar recording, 7-String Bach, was called ‘masterful’ by Gramophone magazine, and Wholenote praised his ‘Warm, rich, and full tone’. Since its release by Orchid Classics in 2018, 7-String Bach has been streamed over 1 million times on Spotify and Apple Music, and was featured on the BBC and Classic FM.

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Ryan McCullough and Lucy Fitz Gibbon

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.”

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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 is interested in the transmission of music theory and material culture between early modern Europe and late Ming/early Qing China. 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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Upcoming Events

Apr 25
Friday 01:30 PM

Composers Forum: Pe Lang

Lincoln Hall 316
Apr 25
Friday 07:30 PM

Keyboard Energies Symposium: Elemental Energies at the Keyboard

Barnes Hall
Apr 26
Saturday 11:45 AM

Keyboard Energies Symposium: David Yearsley Lecture-Recital

Anabel Taylor Chapel
Apr 26
Saturday 05:00 PM

Keyboard Energies: Gary Versace Organ Trio

Lincoln Hall B20
Apr 26
Saturday 07:30 PM

Cornell Chorus, Glee Club, and Symphony Orchestra Major Works Concert

Bailey Hall
Apr 27
Sunday 03:00 PM

Cornell Percussion Ensemble Concert

Lincoln Hall B20
Apr 28
Monday 07:30 PM

Voice Program Senior Showcase

Barnes Hall
Apr 29
Tuesday 07:30 PM

Jeffrey Snedeker, organ recital

Sage Chapel
Apr 30
Wednesday 12:30 PM

Midday Music for Organ: Annette Richards

Anabel Taylor Chapel
Apr 30
Wednesday 07:30 PM

Student Chamber Music Recital

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.

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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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