Students reflect on Marsalis visit: ‘He really touched my soul’
Wynton Marsalis visited campus Nov. 1-6 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.
ONEcomposer returns for second season
ONEComposer returns for a second season honoring Margaret Bonds.
Arts Unplugged: Marsalis offers Nov. 6 concert with wind symphony
A.D. White Professor-at-Large Wynton Marsalis will visit campus the week of Nov. 1, offering a concert with the Barbara and Richard T. Silver ’50, MD ’53 Cornell Wind Symphony, open to the public, and a talk open to members of the Cornell community.
New A&S program expands undergrad research opportunities
The Nexus Scholars program will leverage the student-to-faculty ratio and the vibrant research enterprise in A&S to expand opportunities for students, while also enhancing the culture of collaborative scholarship at Cornell.
Concerto highlights individual voice and the sound of community
“The Oberlin Concertos,” released Sept. 17, features a composition by Elizabeth Ogonek, which combines voice, piano and percussion.
Music department presents organ festival Oct. 20-23
An organ festival on campus will feature the works of the Dutch composer and keyboardist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.
Project celebrates the beauty of humpback whale songs
“The Whale Listening Project,” which runs Sept. 23-26, is a four-day immersion in the beauty of whale song and a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the best-selling 1970 album, “Songs of the Humpback Whale,” co-produced by pioneering bioacoustics researchers Roger Payne, Ph.D. ’61, and Katy Payne ’59, a retired research associate with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Bioacoustics Research Program.
New Faculty: Elizabeth Ogonek
Elizabeth Ogonek, Music
Festival takes listeners on musical pilgrimage around Arts Quad
The Resounds Festival kicks off a yearlong project focused on innovation in acoustic instruments and includes installations at the Johnson Museum and concerts each day beginning at 4 p.m. that take listeners on a pilgrimage to various locations around the Arts Quad.
Applications now open for Klarman postdoc fellowships in A&S
Applications are now being accepted for the third cohort of the Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowships program in the College of Arts and Sciences. The deadline for submission is Oct. 15.
Sierra symphony highlights Caribbean culture
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra will launch its 2021-22 season on Oct. 14 with the world premiere of “Symphony No. 6,” composed by Roberto Sierra, the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences.
History, music, physics harmonize in keyboard project
Elizaveta Zabelina '24 is spending the summer helping to photograph and regulate the 17 historical pianos, harpsichords and clavichords in the collection of the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards.
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tania León visits Cornell
The Cornell Department of Music welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tania León to campus November 18-19. Born in Havana, Cuba, León is highly regarded as a composer, conductor, educator, and advisor to arts organizations. In 2021, her orchestral work Stride, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music....
Sierra symphony premiered by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Professor Roberto Sierra's Symphony No. 6 received its world premiere on October 26, 2021, in a performance by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, under the direction of Domingo Hindoyan. The performance was then broadcast by BBC Radio 3, which is available to stream on-demand through November 26.
Louilarpprasert commissioned for 100th celebration of Donaueschinger Musiktage
Piyawat Louilarpprasert's work Ohm-Na-Mo (โอม นะ โม) was recently premiered as a part of the 100th celebration of the Donaueschinger Musiktage festival in Germany. Louilarpprasert, a graduate student in composition, was commissioned by the Südwestrundfunk (SWR), along with four other composers; the resulting piece was a 70-minute collective...
