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Professors David Yearsley and Annette Richards in Concert

3/01/2023

Join us for two exciting concerts this week, featuring Professors David Yearsley and Annette Richards.

Mike Cheng-Yu Lee performs an All-Chopin Program in Barnes Hall

2/09/2023

For 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, ...

Organist Anne Laver performs in Anabel Taylor Chapel on Friday, February 3

2/01/2023

Join 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.

The Salon Project kicks off with Sezi Seskir and Keiran Campbell on Friday, January 27

1/22/2023

The 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.

Announcing Spring 2023 Events

1/21/2023

From 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.

Organ Concerts, Spring 2023

1/21/2023

In 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.

Annette Richards publishes new book: The Temple of Fame and Friendship

12/19/2022

Published 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.

Ryan McCullough And Lucy Fitz Gibbon At The CCHK

11/28/2022

We 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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