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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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Organ Midday Music for Fall 2024

9/10/2024

Organ music at Cornell begins again this Wednesday at 12:30pm, as we launch our Fall 2024 recital series with Midday Music for Organ in Sage Chapel.

September 20: Organ Recital by Guest Artist Balint Karosi

9/10/2024

Join us on Friday, September 20th, 2024 at Anabel Taylor Chapel at 7:30pm.

September 13: Salon Project with Malcolm Bilson

9/03/2024

Join us on Friday, September 13th, 2024 at the historic A.D. White House at 5pm for the first Salon Project of the Fall 2024 semester with Malcolm Bilson: “The Opening Piano Solo of Beethoven‘s Fourth Piano Concerto: A Short Talk on a (perhaps) Long Subject“.

September 10: CCHK Postdoctoral Artist in Residence Recital by Patricia Garcia Gil

9/02/2024

The CCHK opens the Fall 2024 semester with a fortepiano recital featuring the new Postdoctoral Artist in Residence Patricia Garcia Gil in a program titled “Spanish Serenades and Chopinian Charms" on Tuesday, September 10th, 2024 at 7:30pm at Barnes Hall.

Forte | Piano 2025 Crafting Soundscapes: Call For Proposals

8/25/2024

We invite proposals for recitals, talks and innovative presentations from performers, scholars, organologists, builders, and technicians for an international festival to be held at Cornell University from August 6-10, 2025. Deadline is September 30, 2024.

Forte/Piano Summer Academy Concerts

6/24/2024

Join us July 30 - August 3 for the Forte/Piano Summer Academy events featuring Chamber Music Collective student and faculty performances, salons, and showcase concerts, all free and open to the public.

Tomorrow: Guest Artist Recital by Boris Berman

4/11/2024

Join us tomorrow, April 16, at 7:30pm in Barnes Hall for a full-length recital “The Dawn of Modernism” by a guest artist Boris Berman, an internationally sought-after teacher and performer.

April 26: Improvisation at Work. Workshop-symposium

4/10/2024

An evening of invention, surprise, and collaboration with two of today’s most distinguished experts on improvisation in historical styles, William Porter and Edoardo Bellotti, and the winner in 2020 of the American Guild of Organists’ National Competition in Organ Improvisation, Ivan Bosnar. This ev...

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