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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 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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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 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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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

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Upcoming Events

Aug 05

Tuesday 07:30 PM

Forte | Piano 2025: Brahms, Schumann, and Schubert Lieder

Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Kiplinger Theater

Aug 06

Wednesday 07:30 PM

Forte | Piano 2025: Former Students of Malcolm Bilson

Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Kiplinger Theater

Aug 08

Friday 07:30 PM

Forte | Piano 2025: Conversations for Two

Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Kiplinger Theater

Aug 09

Saturday 07:30 PM

Forte | Piano 2025: Women at the Keyboard

Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Kiplinger Theater

Aug 11

Monday 05:00 AM

Organ Recital: The 715 four-note chords possible in one octave: CU Music

Sage Chapel Chapel

Aug 18

Monday 12:00 PM

CU Music New Student Open House

Lincoln Hall

Aug 19

Tuesday 10:00 AM

CU Music New Student Open House

Lincoln Hall

Aug 20

Wednesday 12:00 AM

Cornell Department of Music Auditions

Various locations: see website for details

Aug 21

Thursday 12:00 AM

Cornell Department of Music Auditions

Various locations: see website for details

Aug 22

Friday 12:00 AM

Cornell Department of Music Auditions

Various locations: see website for details

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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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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

Aug 05

Tuesday 07:30 PM

Forte | Piano 2025: Brahms, Schumann, and Schubert Lieder

Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Kiplinger Theater

Aug 06

Wednesday 07:30 PM

Forte | Piano 2025: Former Students of Malcolm Bilson

Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Kiplinger Theater

Aug 08

Friday 07:30 PM

Forte | Piano 2025: Conversations for Two

Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Kiplinger Theater

Aug 09

Saturday 07:30 PM

Forte | Piano 2025: Women at the Keyboard

Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Kiplinger Theater

Aug 11

Monday 05:00 AM

Organ Recital: The 715 four-note chords possible in one octave: CU Music

Sage Chapel Chapel

Aug 18

Monday 12:00 PM

CU Music New Student Open House

Lincoln Hall

Aug 19

Tuesday 10:00 AM

CU Music New Student Open House

Lincoln Hall

Aug 20

Wednesday 12:00 AM

Cornell Department of Music Auditions

Various locations: see website for details

Aug 21

Thursday 12:00 AM

Cornell Department of Music Auditions

Various locations: see website for details

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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.

Please note there are numerous traffic impacts due to roadwork and construction, including on Feeney Way and University Avenue. Visit cuinfo.cornell.edu/alerts/ for up to date information, and allow extra time for travel and parking.

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.