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<p>Graduate student Tonia Ko’s career as a young composer and artist has hit a new level, with several recent international honors, concert commissions and performance premieres, including a piece performed on bubble wrap.</p><p>Ko, 26, was one of nine recipients of the 63rd annual BMI Student Composer Awards, held May 18 in New York City. The winners ranged in age from 14 to 26.</p>
<h2>Jasmine Edison '15 </h2><h3>Major: Music<br />Hometown: Warner Robins, GA</h3><p><strong>Why did you choose Cornell?</strong><br /></p>
<h2 dir="ltr">Paul Hwang '15</h2><h3 dir="ltr">Major: Music<br />Hometown: Palisades Park, NJ</h3><p dir="ltr"><strong>Why did you choose Cornell?</strong><br /></p>
<p><a href="http://bit.ly/1O5IOlF">Alejandro L. Madrid</a>, associate professor of ethnomusicology in the Department of Music, has released a new book, <em><a href="http://bit.ly/1YDk6OP">In search of Julian Carrillo and Sonido 13 </a></em>(Oxford University Press). </p><p>Madrid’s research on popular and art music, dance and expressive culture from Mexico, the U.S.-Mexico border, and the circum-Caribbean focuses on the intersection of modernity, tradition, globalization and identity. </p>
<p><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Talented Cornell undergrad composers </span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">showcased their work in a recent concert.</span></p>
<p>Professor Emeritus of Music <a href="https://www.meaningfulfunerals.net/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=3345372&fh_id=14255">Marice Wilbur Stith</a>, who as director of bands conducted the Cornell University Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band over his 23-year Cornell career, died Oct. 7 at Cayuga Medical Center after a long illness. He was 89.</p>
<p>On a recent trip to Budapest, <a href="http://music.cornell.edu/people/faculty/profile/malcom-bilson/">Malcolm Bilson</a>, the Frederick J. Whiton Professor of Music Emeritus, received The Order of the Hungarian Gold Cross, an award given each year to seven or eight foreigners who are distinguished artists, scientists, writers and others for their contribution to Hungarian intellectual and cultural life.</p>
<h2>Mingkun Ding '16</h2><h3>Major: Math and Philosophy (Minor: Music)<br />Hometown: Shanghai</h3><p><strong>How did you decide on your major? Have your plans changed since you started Cornell?</strong><br /></p>
<p>Ariana Kim’s solo album, “Routes of Evanescence,” showcases works by pioneering American women composers.</p>
<p>“Why is your music important to you? How much time do you spend listening to music per day? How many songs per day do you listen to? How important is your music to you?”</p>
<p>Patrick Braga ’17 spent a little more than a year working on his chamber opera, “La Tricotea (Opus 25),” which will premiere Dec. 3 with 16 student vocalists and instrumentalists.</p><p>“This was a project out of my own passion for composition and to convince people that opera doesn’t have to be a boring ordeal,” said Braga, who was inspired by a music history course with Professor Judith Peraino and a Glee Club selection by Assistant Professor Robert Isaacs.</p>
<p>Pianist Yujin "Stacy" Joo '16 won the 12th annual <a href="http://www.arts.cornell.edu/orchestra/calendar-competition.html">Cornell Concerto Competition </a>Dec. 13 for her performance of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26, Mvt. 1, accompanied by Blaise Bryski. A chemistry and biology major in the College of Arts and Sciences, Joo has played piano for ensembles including the orchestra, wind symphony and a cover band.</p>
<p>Professor Emeritus of Musicology <a href="http://music.cornell.edu/people/faculty/profile/don-michael-randel/">Don M. Randel</a> was named an honorary member of the American Musicological Society (AMS) during its recent annual meeting in Louisville. This award is to given to scholars “who have made outstanding contributions to furthering the Society’s mission and whom the Society wishes to honor.”</p>
<p>After two years of planning and lots of help from alumni, 96 members of the Glee Club and Chorus spent three weeks singing and teaching in Guatemala and Mexico.</p>
<p>Six panels of faculty from across various disciplines in Arts and Sciences will share glimpses of their latest research on topics as diverse as technology and humanitarianism in a series of “Big Ideas” panel discussions this semester.</p>
<p>Faculty remember the "<span style="line-height: 27.7333px;">gentle yet powerful influence" of Steven Stucky, emeritus professor of music and Pulitzer Prize winner, who died this month at his home in Ithaca.</span></p>
<p>Media studies research and teaching at Cornell elaborates on traditional techniques of scholarship, bringing in new objects of analysis and combining disciplines. </p>
<p><span style="line-height: 27.7333px;">From </span>Virginia Woolf to Debussy, faculty share the works that have impacted their careers and their lives during this series of lunchtime talks with students.</p>
<p>Congratulations to <a href="http://music.cornell.edu/people/faculty/profile/roberto-sierra/">Roberto Sierra</a>, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities and professor of music, on the international release of his new CD “Boleros & Montunos” in Madrid, Spain.</p>
<p>Resurrecting a 17th-century Italian opera whose sole musical source was incompletely notated was a challenge musicologist <a href="http://music.cornell.edu/people/faculty/profile/neal-zaslaw/">Neal Zaslaw</a> and a group of students were happy to accept.</p><p>What started as a spring 2015 seminar project was unveiled March 19-20 as an opera complete with Baroque instruments, Arcadian shepherds, hellish demons and classical statuary in the auditorium of Klarman Hall.</p>
<p>Through engaged learning activities, music classes are reaching out to a new generation of listeners.</p>
<p>Charles Peck is one of only four classical composers chosen to create a piece for the New York Youth Symphony's First Music Program.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Twelve faculty-led projects, including six in Arts & Sciences, have been awarded approximately $213,000 under the Internationalizing the Cornell Curriculum (ICC) grant program.</span></p>
<p>Alejandro L. Madrid, associate professor of music, has won the 2016 Humanities Book Award from the Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) for his most recent book, In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13 (Oxford University Press, 2015). The prize is awarded annually to an outstanding and original contribution to the study of Mexico in book-length academic monographs and works published during the previous year.</p>
<p>At the <a href="http://cny2016.thatcamp.org/">Central New York THAT (The Humanities and Technology) Camp</a> held in Olin Library, there were no official presenters, while participants voted on workshop topics and met in collaborative sessions.</p><p>The informal structure suited the subject matter, since digital humanities is a relatively new and rapidly evolving field.</p>