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A reflective piece in The Cornell Daily Sun captures a one-of-a-kind concert from the "Keyboard Energies" symposium, where 13 performers explored the electrification of keyboard sound through classical, contemporary, and improvised works.
Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards receives a gift that will secure the future of its museum-quality holdings, as well as a rich program of concerts, festivals and educational offerings. Read the full article in the Cornell Chronicle.
Join us on May 7-8 for the presentation, workshops, and discussion on the historical and contemporary impact of the commedia dell’arte tradition by Puerto Rican director, actor, educator, mask-maker, deviser and artivist Robi Arce-Martínez.
Melodic ornamentation in the music of Mozart and Chopin and the practice of preluding — in the final salon of the semester with CCHK Visiting Fellow.
The final organ midday break, the closure of 2024-25 season at Cornell, by the University Organist Annette Richards.
Guest organist Jeffrey Snedeker brings the mystical and transcendent works by 20th-century French organists Charles Tournemire, Olivier Messiaen and Maurice Duruflé.
Intertwined histories of keyboard instruments, experimentation, and electricity across 20th-century New York State come together in scholarship and performance.
Third-annual celebration of Earth Day at the Baroque Organ with turned-off electric blower. Performers include David Yearsley, Annette Richards and students in this year’s organ class.
Adam Langeveld, postdoctoral researcher in Astronomy at Cornell, explores the extraordinary organ culture of late 19th-century Paris.
Join us for an exploration of melancholy and escapism in the the mélodie and piano music.of French, Canadian, and Haitian composers.
Johann Sebastian Bach turns 340 on March 31st. Join us for a midday break on Wednesday, March 26th at Anabel Taylor Chapel at 12:30pm to celebrate the composer's birthday.
Thursday, March 20: Patricia Garcia Gil, our artist-in-residence, and Andrew C. Weislogel, curator of Earlier European and American Art at the Johnson Museum, present an evening of music of lesser-known American female composers.
Anette Richard's organ recital in Anabel Taylor Chapel, originally planned for this coming Tuesday, March 11th, is postponed to Thursday, May 8th at 7:30pm.
The fourth meeting of the Chamber Music Collective will take place in June 2025. Applications are now being accepted for a six-day intensive chamber music program from advanced music students and young professionals in strings, piano, and voice.
A program of little-known classical string trios by Haydn and Boccherini alongside Mozart’s Piano Quartet in G Minor, presented by Andrew Willis and period instrument ensemble The Vivaldi Project.
Jack Yarborough (DMA candidate, piano) makes his debut organ recital on Aeolian Skinner and Vicedomini organs at a Midday Music program on Wedensday, March 12, at 12:30pm.
Exploration of the versatility and humorous potential of the Anabel Taylor organ with Annette Richards. Postponed to May 8.
Join the Colloquium on Thursday, February 27th at Lincoln Hall, Room 124 at 4:30pm.
In Sage Chapel on Wednesday, February 26th, at 12:30 PM: a beautiful blend of violin and organ, along with solo organ performances by guests from Syracuse University.
Internationally sought-after concert organist brings her extraordinary musicianship to the Aeollian-Skinner organ this Sunday, February 23rd. Join us in the Sage chapel at 3pm for the music of 19th & 20th-21st centuries.
Melancholy and escapism in the mélodie and piano music by French, Canadian, and Haitian composers. Join us at 5pm on February 14th in the historic A.D. Whilte House.
Join us for a midday break with guest organist Anne Spink at 12:30pm on Wednesday, February 12th at Sage Chapel.
Come to the Film Forum at the Schwartz Center at 7:30pm, on February 7th, for a lecture-recital on the differences between Viennese and English pianos at the turn of the 19th century.
Nothing is Lost. Nothing is Created. Everything is Transformed. Join us on Friday, January 31st for the first salon of this semester presented by Patricia García Gil.
February 1st at Anabel Taylor Chapel: presentation of the newest album by False Azure Records, "In the Cabinet of Wonders with Scheidemann and Schop: Music for Organ and Violin from 17th-Century Hamburg," featuring violinist Martin Davids and organist David Yearsley.
At 5pm this Friday, December 13th, at the historic A.D. White House, Isaac Dorio, Federico Ercoli, Ariel Mo, and Matías de Roux present research they have pursued over the course of “Historical Keyboarding,” a seminar taught by CCHK director Roger Moseley this semester.
This Wednesday, November 13th, in Barnes Hall at 7:30 p.m., guest artist Stefania Neonato will perform preludes by Charles Alkan and Claude Debussy.
Our next salon of this season, "Steps to Perfection: Piano Teaching from Clementi to Chopin", is on Friday, November 15th, traditionally at 5pm in the A.D. White House. Discussion and performance by Patricia Garcia Gil and Andrew Willis.
Join us on Friday, November 1, at 7:30pm at Barnes for the opening concert of the two-day symposium-performance "Chao Yuen-Ren’s Art of Songs."
On November 9th, Patricia García Gil, CCHK's artist-in-residence, will present “Voices of Influence: Exploring Power Dynamics in the Conservation of Musical Heritage in Colonial Latin America” at the Johnson Museum of Art’s upcoming symposium, Reimagining the Américas. Attend in person at the Museum or via Zoom.
ALL THE WRONG NOTES: CHARLES IVES AT 150 continues on October 25, 7:30pm at Barnes Hall with a recital of all four rarely-heard Violin Sonatas, performed by guest violinist KJ McDonald and DMA pianist Ariel Mo.
The opening concert of the festival celebrating 150th Birthday of the iconoclast of American music, Charles Ives, takes place on Sunday, October 20, at 7:30pm in Barnes Hall.
A concert-symposium-exhibit celebrating the legacy of Chao Yuen-Ren, a pioneering Chinese-American polymath and Cornell alumnus (Class of 1914), will take place on November 1-2.
Join us on Tuesday, October 22, at 7:30pm in Barnes Hall for a program of Bach, Chopin and Haydn on 1479 Silbermann replica by Paul McNulty and 1843 Pleyel grand.
Join us tomorrow at 12:30 PM in Anabel Taylor Chapel for a captivating 40-minute program “Ancient and Modern, c. 1773” performed on the Baroque Organ recently featured in the Cornell Daily Sun article "The Titans of Anabel Taylor Chapel: Richards, Yearsley and the Baroque Organ" by Aidan Goldberg '25.
We are extending the deadline to submit proposals for the Forte | Piano 2025, a major international festival to be held from August 5-10, 2025. Submit the proposal by October 15, 2024.
We are delighted to announce that David Yearsley, Herbert Gussman Professor of Music, has just released a colorful new album, Handel’s Organ Banquet, on False Azure Records, a label founded by Ryan McCullough. Listen to the album on Bandcamp.
Experience a program of Haydn and Beethoven brought by the Smithsonian Academy Orchestra, conducted by Kenneth Slowik, and featuring our Postdoctoral Artist-in-Residence Patricia García Gil.
Organ music at Cornell begins again this Wednesday at 12:30pm, as we launch our Fall 2024 recital series with Midday Music for Organ in Sage Chapel.
Join us on Friday, September 20th, 2024 at Anabel Taylor Chapel at 7:30pm.
Join us on Friday, September 13th, 2024 at the historic A.D. White House at 5pm for the first Salon Project of the Fall 2024 semester with Malcolm Bilson: “The Opening Piano Solo of Beethoven‘s Fourth Piano Concerto: A Short Talk on a (perhaps) Long Subject“.
The CCHK opens the Fall 2024 semester with a fortepiano recital featuring the new Postdoctoral Artist in Residence Patricia Garcia Gil in a program titled “Spanish Serenades and Chopinian Charms" on Tuesday, September 10th, 2024 at 7:30pm at Barnes Hall.
We invite proposals for recitals, talks and innovative presentations from performers, scholars, organologists, builders, and technicians for an international festival to be held at Cornell University from August 5-10, 2025. Deadline is extended to October 15, 2024.
Join us July 30 - August 3 for the Forte/Piano Summer Academy events featuring Chamber Music Collective student and faculty performances, salons, and showcase concerts, all free and open to the public.
Join us tomorrow, April 16, at 7:30pm in Barnes Hall for a full-length recital “The Dawn of Modernism” by a guest artist Boris Berman, an internationally sought-after teacher and performer.
An evening of invention, surprise, and collaboration with two of today’s most distinguished experts on improvisation in historical styles, William Porter and Edoardo Bellotti, and the winner in 2020 of the American Guild of Organists’ National Competition in Organ Improvisation, Ivan Bosnar. This event is a collaboration between Cornell, Syracuse University, and Eastman School of Music.
The Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards invites applications for small grants to support research by members of the Cornell community relating to the history and culture of keyboard instruments.
Extreme Pianism: The Technologies, Gimmicks, and Aesthetics of Nineteenth-Century Virtuosity
International star pianist and CCHK Artist-in-Residence Alexander Melnikov brings his extraordinary expertise on both modern and historic pianos to Cornell for a residency on February 18th-21st.
Neil Saccamano (Associate Professor Emeritus of English) joins Annette Richards (Professor of Music and University Organist) for a conversation about her recent book The Temple of Fame and Friendship: Portraits, Music, and History in the C. P. E. Bach Circle (Chicago, 2022), with performances on piano and clavichord by Xak Bjerken, Roger Moseley, and David Yearsley.