Igor Santos: Études for piano and synthesizer
no. 2, ripples on false reflections
no. 4, signaux bloquées

Makiko Nishikaze: piano-duet

with Arthur Siyun Li

Ana Sokolovic: TROIS ETUDES (1997)

Jean-Phillippe Rameau: SUITE IN A MINOR

Igor Santos: (GHOSTS) BEHIND ARTICULATION (2018)

Maurice Ravel: from GASPARD DE LA NUIT
no. 3, Scarbo

This program is thematically unified around works inspired by architecture. The composers connect with architecture in different ways- light and space, building materials, dialogue with nature, and interior design.

Igor Santos: As Light Becomes Form (2019)
Seare Farhat:Wild Eyes that Gleam of Past Existence

With Asher Wulfman, violin

Seare Ahmad Farhat: wild eyes that gleam of past existence
This new work for violin and piano interprets the concrete walls of the Johnson Museum as inscriptions of sound. Each fragment of the Johnson’s exterior framework is a unique mold of wooden frames—in much the same way, wild eyes seeks to translate a material impression of the wall itself into sound.

Cello-piano duo Annie Hyung and Ariel Mo will perform and discuss Katherine Balch’s Prelude and its companion piece, Brahms’ E Minor Cello Sonata, on the CCHK’s enigmatic 1857 Streicher piano, similar to one that Brahms owned. Balch's Prelude was composed to proceed attacca into the Brahms, providing a shocking antithesis that asks us to listen anew to Brahms as subjects rooted in the 21st century, rather than reenacting the 19th. Likewise, the Streicher piano, while featuring a Viennese action, differs remarkably in touch and tone from other pianos of its time--but was this the original intent, or the result of over a century of posthumous intervention? Is this “historical keyboard” an artifact of the past, or does it, too, like Balch’s Prelude, reimagine Brahms for our own time? 

At the A.D. White House, Cornell University.

Special thanks to the CCHK, CCA, Cornell Music, and Hans Bethe House for making these events possible.

Guest artist Annie Hyung & Ariel Mo present on their work at Cornell’s Bethe House residence.

Annie Hyung & Ariel Mo

Bach: Gamba Sonata No. 3 in G Minor, BWV 1029
Katherine Balch: Prelude (2019)
Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38

Annie Hyung & Ariel Mo

Katherine Balch: Prelude (2019)
Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38 (1862-5)

Cornell University “Keyboard Energies” Symposium, 2025.

Harpsichord strings will vibrate in sympathy with the oscillators of the Minimoog synthesizer throughout a program that traces the theme of musical elements as well as the electrification of New York State. Performing on an array of keyboard instruments ranging from the clavichord to the Clavinet, Cornell faculty and graduate students will be joined by special guests from the Ithaca area in presenting music by CPE & JS Bach, David Borden, Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy, Jasmine Edison, György Ligeti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Dane Rudhyar, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Richard Wagner.

In four concerts, ALL THE WRONG NOTES: Charles Ives at 150 celebrates the 150th anniversary of composer, keyboardist, actuary, and businessman Charles Ives.

Charles Ives: Decoration Day (arr. Kirkpatrick) — Grant Houston & Xak Bjerken
Frederic Rzewski: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues — Isaac William Dorio
Charles Ives: “The Alcotts”, from Concord Sonata — Federico Ercoli
Jasmine Morris: Double Bind for prepared piano & four-hands
Charles Ives: Piano Trio — Trio Gaia (Grant Houston, Yi-Mei Templeman, and Ariel Mo)

Midday Music in Lincoln: In four concerts, ALL THE WRONG NOTES: Charles Ives at 150 celebrates the 150th anniversary of composer, keyboardist, actuary, and businessman Charles Ives.

This third concert on Oct. 31 features Cornell’s DMA pianists, Thomas Feng and Jack Yarbrough.

Charles Ives: Three Quarter-Tone Pieces, S. 128
Tui St. George Tucker: Little Pieces for Quarter-Tone Piano
George Friedrich Haas: Hommage to Josef Mattias Hauer, from Three Hommages

In four concerts, ALL THE WRONG NOTES: Charles Ives at 150 celebrates the 150th anniversary of composer, keyboardist, actuary, and businessman Charles Ives.

This second concert on Oct. 25 features all four rarely-heard Violin Sonatas, performed by guest violinist KJ McDonald and DMA pianist Ariel Mo. Rhapsodic and inventive, rich with references to the popular tunes and cultural settings of New England, these sonatas showcase the whirling imagination and fearless complexity of Ives’ writing, but is also replete with moments of deep-seated nostalgia and optimistic humanism that even “soft ears” can appreciate. 

In four concerts, ALL THE WRONG NOTES: Charles Ives at 150 celebrates the 150th anniversary of composer, keyboardist, actuary, and businessman Charles Ives. Largely rejected in his youth, this native son of green New England famously gained renown only later in life and is today remembered as an iconoclast of American music. Ives’ musical agenda might best be summed up by the Connecticut minister who programmed Ives over the protests of his congregation: “God gets awfully tired of hearing the same thing over and over again.” Ives was a relentless visionary yet also a traditionalist, worshiping Beethoven and turning up his nose at Ravel and Schoenberg, whose music he claimed he never heard. Described variously as “gibberish,” “impossible,” like “awfully indigestible food,” Ives’ works draw directly from European techniques and suffuses them with the spirit and sounds of early 20th-century America, quoting popular tunes, band music, revival hymns, barn dances, and ragtime, invoking memories of holidays and parades alongside references to Transcendentalist philosophy. 

For the first concert on Oct. 20, Ives’ birthday, we are excited to welcome beloved American pianist Gilbert Kalish, who opens the festival with Ives’ First Piano Sonata alongside a selection of songs performed by Rachel Schutz and Xak Bjerken. Between pieces, baritone and student conductor Anthony Washington will lead the audience in a singalong of some of the hymns that Ives borrowed and transfigured in the First Sonata. 

Rotem Eylam: Ina

Lemuel Marc: Transidiomatic Gun Machine

https://necmusic.edu/events/tuesday-night-new-music-finale

Schubert: Piano Sonata in A Minor, D 784 posth op. 143
Gerard Pesson: Vexierbilder II, no. 1 Speech of clouds
Dongryul Lee: On a winter's night a traveler: The Deeply Learned Klavier
Rachmaninoff: Sonata in G Minor for Cello and Piano with Annie SeEun Hyung

https://necmusic.edu/events/recital-ariel-mo-24-gd-piano-0

https://necmusic.edu/events/nec-piano-department-ives-150-program-one.

Five Preludes by Airat Ichmouratov and Violin Sonata No. 1 by Charles Ives with Peter Paetku of Analog by Choice.

Premieres of solo piano works by Badie Khalegian and MK.

Echoes of Change is a collaborative performance debuting eight new solo piano pieces, inspired by a protest song from the “Woman-Life-Freedom” movement. Created and in performance by a collective of four pianists and eight Iranian composers — four residing in North America, four in Iran — this concert seeks to write a musical history that celebrates the movement and honors the bravery of the Iranian people.

Since September 16, 2022, the Iranian people have been protesting in what has come to be known as the “Woman-Life-Freedom” movement, calling for freedom, human rights, minority rights, and women’s rights to self-expression. Hundreds of Iranians have been murdered, including at least 60 children under the age of 17, and thousands have been arrested, tortured, and raped. During this time, an extraordinary amount of protest art has arisen from the streets that includes more than 40 protest songs.

This project was created by Badie Khalegian and made possible through the generous support of the Presser Foundation, through the Graduate Music Award, and New Music USA through the New Music Creator Fund.

https://asiasociety.org/texas/events/echoes-change-musical-perspectives-irans-woman-life-freedom-movement?auHash=G5MOU3UKIHPe9d4IVCI5cKak9mEBNpF31nZ7L2xHCys.

Faure Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor and Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 3 (both 1st movements) at NEC.

Premiere of Rotem Eylam’s Ina, for Pierrot ensemble. More information here: https://necmusic.edu/events/recital-rotem-eylam-23-jazz-guitar.

Boston premiere of Sam Kerr’s Horizons Unknown: https://necmusic.edu/events/tuesday-night-new-music-kerr-mincarelli-xu-ho-chapman-akinyanmi-sang-wu-cao.