Cornell Music

11/22/2024

It's a big weekend for many of our ensembles! We hope you'll join us 🎶

November 22nd at 7:30 in Bailey Hall
Cornell Wind Symphony Concert 🎵 free!

November 23rd at 7:30 in Bailey Hall
Cornell Symphony Orchestra Concert 🎵 free!

November 24th at 3:00 in Sage Chapel
Cornell University Chorale Fall Concert 🎵 free!

11/18/2024

There are so many amazing concerts happening this week! All events are free and open to the public—hope to see you there! 🎶

11/18/2024

Meet Gabrielle Garra, a junior studying Mechanical Engineering and Business Management. She plays the flute and is the president of the Cornell Wind Symphony. Scroll through to read more about Gabrielle's musical journey!

You can hear Gabrielle perform on Nov. 22 at 7:30 in Bailey Hall as part of the Cornell Wind Symphony.

11/15/2024

We have awesome music scheduled all weekend long! 🎶

November 15th at 5:00 in A.D. White House
CCHK Salon: “Steps to Perfection: Piano Teaching from Clementi to Chopin"🎵 free!

November 16th at 3:00 in Barnes Hall
Cornell Chamber Orchestra Concert 🎵 free!

November 16th at 7:00 in Bailey Hall
Cornell Jazz Ensemble with guest vocalist Sara Gazarek 🎵 free!

November 17th at 11:00 - 4:00 in Klarman Hall Atrium
Klenengan: A Gamelan Gathering 🎵 free!

November 17th at 3:00 in Barnes Hall
Cornell Experimental Sound Series presents: Dither 🎵 free!

11/12/2024

Check out these great free concerts happening this week!

11/12/2024

NEW TIME! 🕰 Cornell Jazz Ensemble with guest vocalist Sara Gazarek will be starting at 7:00 this Saturday, 11/16, in Bailey Hall.

Music by säje, Yebba, Duke Ellington, Joni Mitchell, Louis Prima, Natalie Merchant, Carla Bley, Mulgrew Miller, and Dennis Mackrel, and arrangements from the Great American Songbook by Quincy Jones and Patrick Williams as recorded by Ella Fitzgerald and Patti Austin.

See you there! 🎶

11/11/2024

Meet Lily Doviak, a sophomore majoring in music who plays piano, guitar, drums, flute, bass AND sings. Lily is interested in music technology and composition, which allows her to be more imaginative and experimental with her own writing. She even wrote, recorded, and produced an EP this past summer. On campus, she's involved with Cornell's Fanclub Collective, where she's gained a lot of knowledge about sound technology, and Cornell Gamelan Ensemble, which has encouraged her to explore more deeply other styles of music.

You can hear Lily perform on Nov. 17 from 11:00 - 4:00 7:30pm in the Klarman Hall atrium as part of Klenengan: A Gamelan Gathering.

11/08/2024

See you there!

And we’re back!! Tomorrow is our annual fall concert featuring the lovely chamber singers from Wellesley College! There is NO cost to attend. Come support some of Cornell’s most talented musicians! We hope to see you all there 😁🥳

11/08/2024

Piff Marti is performing this Sunday with an opening set by Ithaca's own The Brat Dondada! Don't forget to register on Campus Groups for your free ticket, click the link below! 🎟

https://cornell.campusgroups.com/musicatcornell/rsvp_boot?id=2274805

11/06/2024

Join us in welcoming guest composer Linda Catlin Smith! Smith is an acclaimed composer, teacher, and musician whose works have been performed and recorded by notable musicians and ensembles from around the world. The Toronto-based composer will be at Cornell this week for a series of discussions and concerts. All events are free and open to the public!

11/05/2024

We hope to see you at the wonderful concerts we have in store this week!

11/04/2024

Meet Flan Sheahan, a senior double-majoring in Biology & Society and Music. Flan sings, plays clarinet and guitar, and is in the Cornell Jazz Ensemble. Scroll through to read more about Flan's musical journey!

You can hear Flan perform on Nov. 16 at 7:30pm in Bailey Hall as part of the Cornell Jazz Ensemble with guest vocalist Sara Gazarek.

11/03/2024

Piff Marti is playing at Klarman Hall next Sunday, 11/10! Don't miss out on your chance to see this amazing performer LIVE! 🎤

Tickets are FREE but you have to register to get one! 🎟 You can register for your ticket and find more info here: https://cornell.campusgroups.com/musicatcornell/rsvp_boot?id=2274805

10/31/2024

Don't miss out on Midday Music in Lincoln today for the third installment of ALL THE WRONG NOTES: CHARLES IVES AT 150! 🎹

10/30/2024

This weekend, the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards presents “Chao Yuen-Ren’s Art of Songs,” a concert-symposium-exhibit that explores the musical legacy of the pioneering Chinese-American polymath and Cornell alumnus (class of 1914). Through performances, scholarly discussions, and an online exhibition, this two-day event celebrates Chao’s groundbreaking contributions to modern Chinese art music.

November 1 @ 7:30 in Barnes Hall
"Chao Yuen-Ren’s Art of Songs": Concert 🎵

November 2 @ 10:00 am -12:00 pm in Lincoln Hall B20
"Chao Yuen-Ren’s Art of Songs": Symposium 🎵

Both events are free and open to the public. We hope to see you there!

10/29/2024

the Keyboard! The Blüthner Aliquot Grand piano in the CCHK collection is from Leipzig, 1878 and features aliquot stringing, giving it a complex and interesting sound. Many notes on this piano have a fourth string above the regular notes that is not struck by the hammer; it is there purely for sympathetic resonance. There are several opportunities coming up to hear this unique instrument in action at Barnes Hall!

First, the concert on Nov. 1 at 7:30pm celebrates the musical and intellectual legacy of Chao Yuen-Ren, a pioneering Cornellian and singular figure among early 20th-century diasporic Chinese intellectuals. We will hear selections from his art songs. Event organizer Morton Wan has chosen the Blüthner to bring to life music by Chao Yuen-Ren and his contemporaries, who were experimenting with Western art song forms through a Chinese lens, because its warm, resonant tone perfectly embodies the ethos of the Romantic lieder tradition that inspired them.

Next, pianist Jack Yarbrough will use three instruments in his recital on Nov. 6 at 7:30pm: the Pleyel, Blüthner, and Kovner Steinway, gradually transitioning our ears from the earliest piano and the earliest repertoire on the program (Chopin) to the most recent, a work by Linda Catlin Smith from 2014. On the Blüthner, Jack will play a very late work by Franz Liszt as well as a Busoni arrangement of a Bach chorale. Both pieces benefit greatly from the deep, round bass register and the luscious resonance this instrument provides. Jack notes that the Blüthner has almost the full range of a modern piano, and is totally approachable by someone only used to modern actions, yet has a distinctly different sound and touch, and he “could listen to the decay of this piano forever.”

Finally, guest artist Stefania Neonato performs on Nov. 13 at 7:30pm in a recital featuring preludes by Charles Alkan and Claude Debussy.

All events are free and open to the public!

10/28/2024

More great free concerts headed your way this week - hope to see you there!

10/25/2024

Another weekend filled with great music! 🎶

October 25th @ 7:30 in Barnes Hall
ALL THE WRONG NOTES: Charles Ives at 150 Festival, second concert 🎵 free!

October 26th @ 6:00 in Bailey Hall
Cornell Chorus Twilight Concert 🎵 tickets available at cornelltickets.com!

October 27th @ 3:00 in Barnes Hall
Pianist Miri Yampolsky and guests perform Bach, Chopin, and Shostakovich🎵 free!