Events for Fall 2025 include evening concerts, midweek musical breaks at the campus organs, and intimate music making in the domestic and social setting of the AD White House at our Friday salons.
Highlights include:
- a new collaboration with the Hebert F. Johnson Museum of Art involving four performances on the 1865 Broadwood piano (September 12, October 3, November 14, and December 5)
- Friday salons featuring pianist Ariel Mo and cellist Annie Hyung (October 17), and a celebration of Louise Farrenc (November 14)
- the return of Keyboard Energies (October 9) in the form of a concert involving thirteen instruments (from clavichord to Minimoog combined in styles ranging from baroque to techno
- a recital (October 28) by visiting artist Anthony Romaniuk
- a celebration of groundbreaking pianist, composer, and pedagogue Louise Farrenc (November 14-15)
See below for the complete calendar. We look forward to seeing you at these events, all of which are free and open to the public!
Thursday, Sept 11 | 7:30pm | Anabel Taylor Chapel
Organ Recital: Amanda Mole
“Inspirations”: A program of Johann Sebastian Bach and those who inspired his compositions
Friday, Sept 12 | 5:15pm | Johnson Museum, Floor 1
Music at the Museum: Federico Ercoli
“Nature and Landscape”: Music by Schumann, Cage, and Liszt, performed on the CCHK’s 1865 Broadwood and framed by vistas of American landscapes
Wednesday, Sept 17 | 12:30pm | Anabel Taylor Chapel
Midday Music for Organ: Jennifer Shin and Jasmine Ngai
“The Multifaceted Bach”: a program exploring the many forms and styles of J. S. Bach
Thursday, Sept 25 | 12:30pm | Lincoln Hall B20
Midday Music: Rothenberg, Moog, and 31 EDO
Travis Johns and Roger Moseley present the CCHK’s unique Rothenberg-Moog organ, which Johns has recently restored, and the newly acquired 280-key Lumatone keyboard, which enables research into microtonal tunings as well as the performance of associated repertoire. Opportunities for hands-on engagement will be provided.
Wednesday, Oct 1 | 12:30pm | Sage Chapel
Midday Music for Organ: Amanda Mole
“20th-century Contemporaries and Beyond,” featuring the music of Hampton, Alain, Howells, and Mozart
Thursday, Oct 2 | 7:30pm | Barnes Hall
Recital: Matthew Bengtson and John Haines-Eitzen
“Beethoven for Fortepiano and Cello”: two sets of variations on themes from Mozart’s Magic Flute and the Sonata in D, op. 102, no. 2
Friday, Oct 3 | 5:15pm | Johnson Museum, Robinson Lecture Hall, Floor 2L
Music at the Museum: Patricia García Gil, Roger Moseley, Jean Bernard Cerin, and Andrew Weislogel
“An Evening at the Goethe House”: Romantic music by Schubert, Clara Wieck, Liszt, Mahler, and others, performed by Gil and Moseley (1824 Graf replica by Rod Regier) and Cerin (baritone). Margarethe Geibel’s series of prints of Goethe’s house will be introduced by exhibit curator Weislogel
Thursday, Oct 9 | 7:30pm | Barnes Hall
“Keyboard Energies II: The Keyboards Strike Back”
Cornell faculty and graduate students unleash a genre-bending program across thirteen keyboard instruments, from the delicate whisper of the clavichord to the analog punch of the Roland Juno-60. This sonic odyssey features music by Alkan, Bach, Beethoven, Bizet, Couperin, Debussy, Kapustin, Mills, Orff, Pärt, Southam, Summer, and more.
Friday, Oct 17 | 5pm | A. D. White House, Guerlac Room
The Salon Project
Ariel Mo and Annie Hyung will introduce and perform works by Brahms and Balch
Wednesday, Oct 22 | 12:30pm | Sage Chapel
Midday Music for Organ: Anne Spink and Michael Guarneiri
“Syracuse Organists,” featuring the works of De Macque, Frescobaldi, Locklair, and others
Friday, Oct 31 | 7:30 pm | Sage Chapel
Organ Recital: Ali Santos
“Music for the Lost and Weary”: a program of litanies and lullabies by 20th- and 21st-century composers including Connor Chee, Alain, and Hampton, concluding with movements from the symphonies of Vierne and Widor
Wednesday, Nov 5 | 12:30pm | Sage Chapel
Midday Music for Organ: Jeffrey Snedeker
“The Italian Englishman: Keyboard Works of Peter Philips,” featuring the Vicedomini Italian Baroque organ
Friday, Nov 14-Saturday, Nov 15
Louise Farrenc at 150: Celebrating a Trailblazer in Music
Friday, 12:30pm | Johnson Museum, Robinson Lecture Hall, Floor 2L
Music at the Museum
A musical and visual journey into Louise Farrenc’s 19th-century Paris, combining performances of her solo piano works with period prints, paintings, and early photographs that illuminate her cultural world. The program will be guided by Jakub Koguciuk, Lynch Postdoctoral Associate for Curricular Engagement from the Johnson Museum, together with Cornell students and faculty
Friday, 5pm | A. D. White House, Guerlac Room
The Salon Project:
A salon-style program pairing Farrenc’s works with new pieces by Cornell composers
Saturday, 9am | A. D. White House, Guerlac Room
Lecture sessions on archives, gender, and pedagogy
Saturday, 3-6pm | Barnes Hall
Chamber music marathon featuring faculty, students, and guest artists
Wednesday, Dec 3 | 12:30pm | Anabel Taylor Chapel
Midday Music for Organ: Ernest Ng
“Cornell Organists”: a program featuring the works of J. S. Bach, his contemporaries, and Felix Mendelssohn
Friday, Dec 5 | 12:30pm | Johnson Museum, Hirsch Lecture Lobby, Floor 2L
Music at the Johnson: Seare Ahmad Farhat, María Bulla, James Ward Parker, and Michael Li
Cornell DMA student composers present works inspired by I. M. Pei’s iconic museum architecture and the CCHK’s 1865 Broadwood