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Under the artistic direction of pianists Miri Yampolsky and Xak Bjerken, Cornell University’s Department of Music celebrates the 10th anniversary of Mayfest, its annual springtime festival of chamber music, May 19-23.
Andrew Hicks, assistant professor of music and medieval studies, has been awarded a prestigious Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin.
Charles Peck, a doctoral student in music composition, was one of seven emerging composers selected as participants in the Minnesota Orchestra’s 15th annual Composer Institute. Peck also recently was named the winner of the Boston New Music Initiative’s (BNMI) fifth annual Commissioning Competition.
Cornell Orchestra members traveled to central Argentina over spring break to collaborate with musicians in Neuquén in northern Patagonia, tackling one of the most challenging works in classical music.
Hear from Arts & Sciences faculty on topics ranging from neuroscience to detective fiction to music composition to global financial policy.
The program was created by the late Philip Merrill ’55 and is funded by annual support from the Merrill Family Foundation.
College of Arts and Sciences faculty members Roger Moseley and Lori Khatchadourian received the Robert and Helen Appel Fellowship for Humanists and Social Scientists, and Margo Crawford received the Robert A. and Donna B.
Alejandro L. Madrid, professor of music, has been awarded the Royal Musical Association’s Dent Medal.
This Cornell Alumni Magazine article tells the story of Leo Ikenaga ’12, a member of Kodo, an elite, 30-member Japanese musical group. The group is primarily focused on the dynamic drumming style known as taiko. Ikenega was introduced to taiko at Cornell, where he was a member and became musical director of Yamatai.
Fourteen Cornell students and recent alumni are setting out this fall for destinations around the world, thanks to grants from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
Cornell Cinema is screening the 1921 German silent film Hamlet Sept. 14 in Sage Chapel.
A medieval game of numbers was one of many activities in the engaged learning course, "The Art of Math: Mathematical Traditions of Symmetry and Harmony."
“Bitter Banquet,” an original staged song cycle composed and performed by Annie Lewandowski, lecturer in music, will be staged at the newly opened Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry St., Ithaca, on September 29 and 30.
Julia Adolphe ‘10 is one of 19 recipients of the 2017 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. The awards are given to concert music composers up to 30 years of age whose works are selected through a national competition.
The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) is supporting 35 projects that will be presented on campus this academic year. Through its Individual Grant Program, the CCA awarded 15 grants of $2,500 each to Cornell faculty, departments and programs, and 20 grants of $1,000 each to undergraduate and graduate students and student organizations. Recipients were selected by a panel of faculty in the arts.
A weekend-long celebration remembers Cornell's central role in Voyagers 1 and 2 and in the creation of the Golden Record.
Radio producers Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett, co-creators of the 90-second NPR radio show, “The World According to Sound,” will be on campus to offer a presentation at 7 p.m., Oct. 25 in the Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium in Klarman Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
The economics department is transforming its undergraduate curriculum with help from an Active Learning Initiative grant.
Joshua Sadinsky '19 combines the passion and tenacity of a concert pianist with a heady love for nature.
Roger Moseley, associate professor of music, has been presented with the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society (AMS) for his 2016 book “Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo.”
The project, “Steven Stucky: Chamber Music,” honors Stucky, who passed away in 2016.
Assistant Professor Catherine Appert has been awarded this year's Richard Waterman Prize, bestowed by the Society for Ethnomusicology for “the best article by a junior scholar in the ethnomusicological study of popular music published within the previous year (in any publication).” Her article, "On Hybridity in African Popular Music: The Case of Senegalese Hip Hop," was published in ethnomusicology’s flagship journal, Ethnomusicolo
