Events

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

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