Conference Events

Drawing on Cornell’s renowned collection of historical pianos, we will enjoy a richly varied, meaty program including:

• A concert of Schubert lieder and Romantic cello works featuring acclaimed artists Yi-heng Yang, Karim Sulayman, Lambert Orkis, and David Hardy
• An exploration of Chopin and the French piano from the perspectives of five performer-scholars individually and as a panel
• A venue for recognizing emerging talent, with over a dozen rising artists and scholars presenting their latest work
• An investigation of Beethoven's Grande Fugue, Op. 133, culminating in a performance of Beethoven's 4-hand arrangement for fortepiano
• A session on teaching fortepiano as a stimulus to creative performance, with interaction among three eminent instructors and their students
• Lectures by eminent scholars including Mark Kroll on Hummel’s Piano Method, Maria Rose on Montgeroult’s Cours Complet, and Neal Zaslaw on Könnicke’s 31-note chromatic fortepiano  
• New compositions for fortepiano by Chenghao Michalis Li and Carson Cooman
• Lecture-recitals on a panoply of subjects including nineteenth-century New Orleanian composers; the music salon of the Razoumovsky family as a crossroads of eastern and western Europe; the early nineteenth-century practice of piano arrangement; the clavecin roïal and the aesthetics of timbre; “soft pedals” and quiet dynamics in Schubert’s piano sonatas; and many others
• A re-creation of a late 18th- / early 19th-century salon as an incubator for untold stories of keyboard culture
• Multiple sessions led by restorers, builders, and curators addressing collections, case studies, and  including an international Zoom panel with eminent European builders and curators, Kerstin Schwartz and Catalina Vicens
• A chamber concert of works by composers Jane Mary Guest, Emilie Mayer, and Louise Farrenc
• Frequent opportunities for discussion of topics of interest over tea in an informal setting

… and much more!