
Professors David Yearsley and Annette Richards in Concert
Join us for two exciting concerts this week, featuring Professors David Yearsley and Annette Richards.
Read MoreThe 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.
Join us for two exciting concerts this week, featuring Professors David Yearsley and Annette Richards.
Read MoreFor this unique occasion, Mike will make use of the CCHK's 1850 Pleyel "pianino," an instrument of unusual artistic merit that was a mainstay of Chopin's career as a composer and teacher. Works include a selection of those Chopin composed during his 1838–39 stay in Majorca and his late masterpiece, ...
Read MoreJoin us this Friday, February 3 to welcome organist Anne Laver in a program of dances, chorales, and fugues spanning five centuries on the Baroque-style organ in Anabel Taylor chapel.
Read MoreThe CCHK is thrilled to welcome Sezi Seskir (fortepiano) and Keiran Campbell (cello) on Friday, January 27 for the first salon of our Spring 2023 series, The Salon Project, co-sponsored with the Society for the Humanities.
Read MoreFrom full length concerts and organ recitals to shorter lunchtime offerings and early evening salons, from early pianos to the Aeolian-Skinner organ, with faculty, students, and distinguished guest artists, the CCHK's Spring 2023 series runs the gamut of keyboard history and culture.
Read MoreIn a full roster of 13 organ recitals this semester we offer a series of glimpses into the extraordinarily long history of the instrument and its music, with Cornell’s organists and two special guests at Cornell’s three recital instruments.
Read MorePublished by the University of Chicago Press, Annette Richards' new book, The Temple of Fame and Friendship: Portraits, Music, and History in the C. P. E. Bach Circle, examines the renowned portrait collection assembled by C. P. E. Bach, J. S. Bach’s second son.
Read MoreWe are delighted to welcome longtime friends of the CCHK, pianist Ryan McCullough and vocalist Lucy Fitz Gibbon, back to campus for the semester’s final salon event on Friday, December 2. In the meantime, listen to their new recording, “the labor of forgetting.”
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By Joshua Biggs
DMA candidate Joshua Biggs discusses the creation of a digital library of samples drawn from the CCHK’s collection.