Pasqualini wins leadership award
PhD candidate Alex Pasqualini recognized with the Exemplary Leadership Award from the Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement
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Performance is a fundamental part of Cornell’s cultural life. The Department of Music encourages music-making through a wide array of chamber and large ensembles, as well as its offerings in private lessons and directed coaching by members of the music faculty. Master classes, degree and non-degree recitals, contemporary music concerts, and an annual concerto competition supplement the music department’s concert offerings.
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Featured Ensemble Performance: Symphony Orchestra, 4/29/18
Cornell Symphony Orchestra (CSO), led by conductor Chris Younghoon Kim, features Tchaikovsky's Slavonic March and Symphony No. 6.
Music events
Apr
26
Friday
12:00 PM
An Archive of Touch by Joshua Biggs: CU Music
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
Flex Theater
Apr
26
Friday
08:00 PM
Improvisation at Work, organ recital: CU Music
Sage Chapel
Chapel
Apr
27
Saturday
03:00 PM
“This Immortal Coil” installation by Laura Cetilia: CU Music
Lincoln Hall
Atrium
Apr
27
Saturday
07:00 PM
Apr
28
Sunday
03:00 PM
Cornell Chamber Orchestra: CU Music
Barnes Hall
Apr
28
Sunday
07:00 PM
Cornell Jazz Repertory Ensemble: CU Music
Klarman Hall
Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium
Music news
CTI grant recipients build student confidence, connection 
James Spinazzola is one of the 2023-2024 recipients of an Innovative Teaching and Learning Grant, harnessing immersive technology to help students build confidence as they learn to conduct an ensemble.
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The Klezmatics to play in Cornell Concert Series April 13
The Klezmatics’ music is steeped in Eastern European Jewish tradition and spirituality, while also incorporating contemporary themes such as human rights and antifundamentalism, and eclectic musical influences — from jazz and punk to Arab, African, Latin and Balkan rhythms.
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Kiss-Pophouse deal shows recording ‘promises a certain immortality’
The recordings can be endlessly reconfigured to bring Kiss to life for new audiences, says Benjamin Piekut, professor of music.
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Summer Experience Grant applications now open
The grants provide funding for students in unpaid or low-paying summer experiences to offset the cost of taking on those positions.
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Community Work-Study Program celebrates 50 years
The Community Work-Study Program enables Cornell undergraduates with federal work-study as part of their financial aid package to work for local nonprofits, schools and municipalities.
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Support Music on Giving Day, March 14!
Giving Day is Thursday, March 14, and your gift of any size goes directly to support our students!
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Concert celebrates International Women’s Day
The annual Empowerment Through Music concert will be held Saturday, March 9 at 7:30 pm in Sage Chapel.
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