The Department of Music at Cornell provides opportunities for the study, creation, and performance of music under the guidance of a distinguished faculty within the broader framework of a B.A. degree in the College of Arts & Sciences, or as part of a degree in another college. In addition to the music major, a minor in music is offered. The Department of Music is renowned for research and scholarship in music, represented by three graduate programs: musicology (Ph.D.), composition (D.M.A), and critical keyboard studies (D.M.A).
Our recently redesigned music major enables undergraduate students to explore music covering diverse historical periods, styles and geographical areas. Students can study subjects ranging from 18th-century and 21st-century performance practices to Asian music, jazz, rock and composition. Hundreds of students participate in large performing ensembles such as orchestras, wind ensembles, gamelan, jazz ensembles, the Glee Club and Chorus, as well as chamber ensembles of all kinds. Our world-class facilities include the Sidney Cox Library, Bailey Performance Hall and the Electroacoustic Music Center.
Department websiteJames Wolter
Visiting Lecturer
Travis Johns
Visiting Lecturer
Guillaume Pirard
Visiting Lecturer
Coral Douglas
Graduate Student in Music
Seare Farhat
Graduate Student in Music
Maria Privado
Graduate Student in Music
Matías de Roux
Graduate Student in Music
Education
BM, Composition, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
DNSPM and MA, Composition, Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP)
Departments and programs
Jack Yarbrough
Graduate Student in Music
Addi Liu
Graduate Student in Music
Publications
Lesemann-Elliott, Caroline, and Addi Liu. “20th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music. Haute École de Musique de Genève, 28 June–2 July 2023.” Early Music Performance & Research, no. 52 (Winter 2023): 51–54.
Addi Liu, “How Did Early Music Get So ‘Crispy’?” EMAg, The Magazine of Early Music America 28, no. 2 (May 2022): 40–47.
Education
Ph.D. (Musicology), Cornell University, in progress
D.M.A., Case Western Reserve University, 2022
B.M and M.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music, 2010 and 2012