Check out our other offerings!Midday Music is a lunchtime concert series (12:30PM-1:15PM) featuring faculty, students, and guest artists – escape to Sage Chapel or Anabel Taylor Chapel (select Wednesdays) or Lincoln Hall (select Thursdays) on your lunch break and hear some wonderful music!

The Musicology Colloquium features presentations and discussions of recent research by distinguished visitors and by Cornell faculty and graduate students in musicology and performance practice. Meetings take place on Thursdays at 4:30 PM in 124 Lincoln Hall.

The Composers’ Forum brings renowned guest composers, artists, scholars, and performers to the campus several times a year. The Forum takes place on select Fridays at 1:25PM in the Alfred E. Kahn Seminar Room, room 316, within the Sidney Cox Library of Music and Dance (220 Lincoln Hall).

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Concert ParkingFor events at Barnes Hall and Sage Chapel, try the parking area along Sage Avenue (not the Sage South lot, which is restricted until 8:00 PM seven days a week), then the parking lots behind Willard Straight and Anabel Taylor Halls. If these areas are full, drive to the parking garage, accessed from Campus Rd. (between Garden Avenue and the football stadium) or from Hoy Rd.—with a 5-minute walk back to the concert venue. For concerts at Bailey Hall, use the parking garage under the Human Ecology Building located at 37 Forest Home Dr. See the campus map and check for construction detours online at cornell.edu/about/maps.

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All of the events in this brochure are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Concerts subject to change. Complete updated listing of dates, locations, and programs is available at music.cornell.edu.

to a new year at the Cornell Department of Music! We frequently hear from concertgoers how wonderful it is to attend our performances and become absorbed in the art. This concert season will be no different, and we encourage you to make time for music!

The music department’s productions are exceptionally diverse; we continue to present performances from the 17th

through the 21st centuries, and offer treasured Cornell traditions while simultaneously supporting and creating new, original works and presentations. Please join us for these highlights and more, and we hope you are surprised and delighted by your experience of the talent onstage, from terrific special guests to our very own exceptional faculty and student performers.

History – See Baroque music brought to life through the dancing of Hubert Hazebroucq and the Cornell Early Music Lab (Nov 4), and Cornell Chamber Singers put a unique spin on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation (Nov 18).

Tradition – Cornell Music once again presents well-loved concert events like the Sage Chapel Christmas Vespers (Dec 3-4), and the Homecoming (Oct 21) and Twilight (Oct 28) Concerts of the Glee Club and Chorus.

Fresh Perspectives – In a collaboration with Cornell Cinema, view a restored 1921 film version of Hamlet accompanied by live music (Sept 14), and hear the Cornell Orchestras’ wide-ranging repertoire from Tchaikovsky to Ellington.

Originals – Jazz drummer Matt Garrity combines originals and standards (Sept 8), Ensemble X returns (Sept 24) to present the best in new compositions on their 20th anniversary season, and guitarist Tashi Dorji collaborates with Annie Lewandowski (Oct 24).

Best regards,

Steven Pond Department of Music Chair

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AUG SAT 8:00 PM Barnes HallPianist Ryan MacEvoy McCullough and soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon present a recital in advance of their appearance in the Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition.

AUG SUN 7:00 PM Carriage House Saxophonist James Spinazzola is joined by Peter Chwazik, Melissa Gardiner, Lizzy Lyon, Paul Merrill, and Aaron Staebell for an eclectic collection of new and reimagined music for jazz combo.

SEPT FRI 8:00 PM Barnes Hall Jazz guest artist: Drummer Matt Garrity’s Actual Trio, featuring Pete Smith, guitar, and Dave Ambrosio, bass, plays original compositions and arrangements of standard jazz repertoire.

SEPT THUR 8:00 PM Sage Chapel Hamlet: Screening of Asta Nielsen’s daring 1921 silent film with new score using music of Bach’s sons, performed live by Dennis James (organ), Michael Tsalka (fortepiano), and mezzo soprano. Pre-film lecture at 7:15PM discusses the making of the score, commissioned by the National Gallery of Art.

SEPT SAT 5:00 PM St. Luke Lutheran Church Guest organist Christophe Mantoux presents virtuosic French masterworks, including music of Franck, Dupont, Wierne, and Widor. Co-sponsored by the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies in collaboration with Friends of Music at St. Luke.

SEPT SUN 3:00 PM Barnes Hall Ensemble X, celebrating its 20th anniversary, present a Luciano Berio portrait concert, featuring Lucy Fitz Gibbon (soprano), Mike Compitello (percussion), and Kyle Armbrust (viola) performing Folk

Songs, Naturale, Linea, and other works.

SEPT THUR 5:00 PM Milstein Hall Visiting Artist Program: Afrofuturist musician Moor Mother (Camae Ayewa) speaks about her music and her activism with Girls Rock Philly and the Black Quantum Futurism collective.

SEPT SAT 7:00 PM Bailey Hall Cornell Symphony Orchestra and Cornell Chamber Orchestra: Chris Younghoon Kim, conductor with special guest Alex Shuhan, horn. Features music of Tchaikovsky and a guest appearance by the CU Jazz Combo.

OCT SUN 3:00 PM Bailey Hall Cornell University Wind Symphony: James Spinazzola, conductor. Features standards for wind band, premieres by Byron Adams (DMA ‘84) and David Conte (DMA ‘83) in honor of Karel Husa, and the premiere of Breath & Hammers by Mark Winges with pianist Blaise Bryski.

OCT SUN 7:00 PM Barnes Hall Guest violinist Juliana Athayde, concertmaster of the Rochester Philharmonic and Associate Professor at Eastman, joins Miri Yampolsky (piano) and John Haines-Eitzen (cello) for a trio concert.

OCT SAT 5:00 PM Anabel Taylor Chapel University Organist Annette Richards performs Reformations III: Women at the Organ in the 17th and 18th Centuries.

OCT SAT 7:00 PM Bailey Hall Glee Club Homecoming Concert: Cornell’s renowned men’s choir presents a varied program of folksongs, Renaissance motets, world music, and spirituals, concluding with the traditional Cornell Songs. Robert Isaacs, conductor. Admission: $15 adults; $5 students, available at baileytickets.com and at the door.

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OCT SUN 3:00 PM Barnes Hall Recital: Shin Hwang, fortepiano, performs music of Beethoven and Schubert.

OCT TUES 8:00 PM Carriage House Guest Artist: Guitarist Tashi Dorji and Cornell lecturer Annie Lewandowski present a concert of improvisations and song.

OCT FRI 8:00 PM Sage Chapel “Music in Secret,” Schola Antiqua of Chicago: Professional early music ensemble presents a concert of music by and for women in the convent, including works by Hildegard von Bingen and Sulpitia Cesis. The performance features the singers reading music from projected manuscript images and is complemented by keyboard works, played by organist and guest director Naomi Gregory.

OCT SAT 5:00 PM Bailey Hall Chorus Twilight Concert: Cornell’s renowned women’s choir presents their traditional mix of early music, folksongs, and contemporary compositions, featuring the world premiere of a new piece by Christine Donkin. Admission: $12 adults; $5 students, available at baileytickets.com and at the door.

NOV FRI 8:00 PM Barnes Hall Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players present the Ithaca College Percussion Trio.

NOV SAT 8:00 PM Barnes Hall Virtuosic Renaissance and Baroque dancer Hubert Hazebroucq performs to music provided by the Cornell Early Music Lab.

NOV MON 8:00 PM Barnes Hall Guest scholar and keyboardist David Catalunya demonstrates his reconstructed medieval clavisimbalum and discusses musical sounds, as well as the architecture of performance spaces.

NOV SAT 7:00 PM Bailey Hall Cornell Symphony Orchestra: Chris Younghoon Kim, conductor. Miri Yampolsky performs Schumann’s Piano Concerto, and James Spinazzola stars on sax in Duke Ellington’s Three Black Kings.

NOV SUN 3:00 PM Barnes Hall Cornell University Jazz Band with special guest Vincent Herring, saxophone: Paul Merrill, director.

NOV MON 8:00 PM Barnes Hall DMA Lecture Recital: Shin Hwang, fortepiano, performs Robert Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze.

NOV TUES 8:00 PM Barnes Hall Israeli pianist Amir Katz performs a rare cycle of Liszt’s piano etudes, works that are both technically challenging and poetic. Katz also presents a master class on November 15 at 7:00PM.

NOV THURS 8:00 PM Sage Chapel Organ duo recital: Anna Steppler and Sofia Östling present Reformation 500: Organ music for four hands and four feet, including Naji Hakim’s Die Apostel (pieces based on Cranach’s woodcuts), Kenneth Leighton’s “Martyrs,” and others.

NOV FRI 8:00 PM Bailey Hall Cornell University Wind Symphony: James Spinazzola, conductor. CU Winds is joined by the Cornell Klezmer Ensemble; featuring Adam Gorb’s Yiddish Dances, new arrangements of standard tunes, and pre-concert dance instruction at 7:00PM. Also includes world premieres by Janice Macauley (Ph.D. ‘86) and Brian Robison (DMA ‘99) in honor of Karel Husa.

NOV SAT * 7:00 PM Anabel Taylor Chapel Cornell Chamber Singers: Stephen Spinelli, conductor presents “Re-Formation,” a community-wide celebration of music as a catalyst for change, with guest vocal ensemble Variant 6.

NOV SUN 3:00 PM Barnes Hall Cornell Chamber Orchestra: Chris Younghoon Kim, conductor, featuring violinists Ariana Kim and Susan Waterbury on Arvo Pärt’s Tabula Rasa. Also on the program is Janáček’s Suite for Strings.

NOV MON 8:00 PM Barnes Hall Piano trio featuring Miri Yampolsky (piano) with guests Guy Braunstein (former Berlin Philharmonic concertmaster) and Zvi Plesser (cello). Works by Mozart, Dvořák, and Shostakovich.

NOV MON 8:00 PM Lincoln B20 Percussion Ensemble: Michael Sparhuber, director.

DEC FRI 8:00 PM Barnes Hall Recital: Becky Lu, piano, performs Russian Piano Sonatas: Works by Scriabin, Stravinsky, and Prokofiev.

DEC FRI 8:00 PM Sage Chapel Cornell Chorale: Stephen Spinelli, conductor.

DEC SAT 8:00 PM Barnes Hall Cornell University Jazz Ensemble: Paul Merrill, director.

DEC SUN 3:00 PM Barnes Hall Studio Recital featuring piano students of Xak Bjerken.

DEC SUN 7:00 PM Carriage House Cornell University Jazz Combos Showcase: Paul Merrill, director.

DEC SUN and DEC MON 7:30 PM Sage Chapel Sage Chapel Christmas Vespers: A Lessons and Carols service sung by the Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club, interspersed with audience carols and traditional readings by members of the Cornell community, with conductor Robert Isaacs and organist Annette Richards. Note: doors will not open until 6:45PM.

DEC MON 5:00 PM Carriage House Studio Recital featuring violin students of Ariana Kim.

DEC MON 8:00 PM Bailey Hall The Oxford University Wind Orchestra joins the Cornell Wind Symphony for a collaborative performance featuring British band classics.

DEC TUES and DEC WED 8:00 PM Barnes Hall Student Chamber Music Recital

DEC TUES 8:00 PM Lincoln B20 Cornell Gamelan Ensemble: Christopher J. Miller, director.

DEC FRI 8:00 PM Barnes Hall Studio Recital featuring voice students.

DEC SUN 8:00 PM Barnes Hall Concerto Competition Finals.

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