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Fitz Gibbon - McCullough Duo to Perform Brahms on This Weekend

9/20/2023

Lucy Fitz Gibbon and Ryan McCullough are at CCHK to perform Brahms on Friday (9/22) and Saturday (9/23).

Midday Music for Organ to begin this Wednesday, September 6

9/04/2023

Midday Music for Organ, Fall 2023, to begin this Wednesday, September 6. Across the semester, organ recitals this fall offer music from six centuries and three continents on three organs played by five guest recitalists and the University Organist.

“Trans-Atlantic Evening of Song” with baritone Jean Bernard Cerin and pianist Xak Bjerken

8/31/2023

The first Salon in the CCHK’s Fall 2023 series is this Friday.

Green clavichord — Double fretted Hubert clavichord, dyed emerald green, by Gary Blaise Geoff Wong

Save the Date for Sustaining Keyboards symposium Sept. 15-16

7/07/2023

This symposium asks how notions of sustainability might prompt us to think anew about keyboard histories, embedded as they are in ecologies of nature and commerce, artifice and art, craft and industry. To what extent are those histories, and the instruments that embody them, sustainable into an unce...

Masterclasses preparing for The 2nd International Piano Competition on Period Instruments

Weekend of Chopin Masterclasses at CCHK: May 12-14

5/03/2023

CCHK will be the home for a Mini-Academy with internationally acclaimed artist-teachers and selected graduate students, hosting masterclasses and lectures in preparation for the 2nd International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments. Join us on May 13 and 14 for public recitals.