Examining the history and culture of the keyboard

Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards

The Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards fosters original and imaginative approaches to the performance and study of keyboard instruments, their technological underpinnings, their intersections with other arts, and their participation in the global currents of cultural and social history.

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April 16: Adam Langeveld at Midday Music

Adam Langeveld, postdoctoral researcher in Astronomy at Cornell, explores the extraordinary organ culture of late 19th-century Paris.

April 10: Rescheduled Event: Midday featuring Jean-Bernard Cerin and Sezi Seskir

Join us for an exploration of melancholy and escapism in the the mélodie and piano music.of French, Canadian, and Haitian composers.

Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach — Portrait of J. S. Bach painted by Elias Gottlob Haussmann (1748)

March 26: Celebrate Bach’s Birthday with David Yearsley

Johann Sebastian Bach turns 340 on March 31st. Join us for a midday break on Wednesday, March 26th at Anabel Taylor Chapel at 12:30pm to celebrate the composer's birthday.

Print by Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910). Mrs. Otcheson at the Piano

Johnson Museum and CCHK present American Women at the Piano 1814-17

Thursday, March 20: Patricia Garcia Gil, our artist-in-residence, and Andrew C. Weislogel, curator of Earlier European and American Art at the Johnson Museum, present an evening of music of lesser-known American female composers.

Annette Richard's ‘Rrrrrrrrrr’ recital postponed to May 8

Anette Richard's organ recital in Anabel Taylor Chapel, originally planned for this coming Tuesday, March 11th, is postponed to Thursday, May 8th at 7:30pm.

Applications Open For June 2025 Six-Day Chamber Music Program On Period Instruments

The fourth meeting of the Chamber Music Collective will take place in June 2025. Applications are now being accepted for a six-day intensive chamber music program from advanced music students and young professionals in strings, piano, and voice.

March 14: Salon with Andrew Willis and period instruments ensemble The Vivaldi Project

A program of little-known classical string trios by Haydn and Boccherini alongside Mozart’s Piano Quartet in G Minor, presented by Andrew Willis and period instrument ensemble The Vivaldi Project.

March 12: Jack Yarborough at Midday Music

Jack Yarborough (DMA candidate, piano) makes his debut organ recital on Aeolian Skinner and Vicedomini organs at a Midday Music program on Wedensday, March 12, at 12:30pm.

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