Cornell Orchestras Statement on BLM
Upcoming Speakers
The Spring 2021 Speaker Series is open to the public.
CU Orchestra will be in hybrid mode(pending approval from Cornell) in the spring semester of 2021. During the first part of the semester, we will continue our speaker series started in the fall of 2020. Our speakers will be addressing the issue of Inequity and Racism in the Institution of Orchestra and how we can all learn to make the orchestra a vital part of each community that is welcoming for all. Registration Link to our next event on March 3, 2020
4:55 pm, Wednesday, 2/10/2021
Titus Underwood
4:55 pm, Wednesday, 2/24/2021
Angelica Cortez
7 PM, Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Watch Party: Price's Piano Concerto in One Movement, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor, and Michelle Cann, pianist
Join "Virtual Classroom" and experience the Philadelphia Orchestra's ONEcomposer-sponsored, North American premiere of Price's original orchestration of her Piano Concerto in One Movement. Historical
context and information about the project will be provided, along with live, chat-based Q & A. This event is open for all collegiate music programs.CU Orchestra
Fall 2020 newsletterOur current members and alumni have contributed articles about the fall orchestra activities. Big thanks to Seungmin Lee who put the issue together.
Fall 2020 Speakers
The Fall 2020 Speaker Series is still open to the public.
CU Orchestra went online in the Fall of 2020. Our speakers engaged with us in discussing the issue of inequity and Racism in the Institution of Orchestra and how we can all learn to make the orchestra a vital part of each community that is welcoming for all.
Wednesday, 9/2/2020
Wednesday, 9/16/2020
Wednesday, 9/23/2020
Wednesday, 9/30/2020
Faculty member of Jazz Studies at
The Juilliard SchoolWednesday, 10/7/2020
President & Artistic Director of Sphinx Organization
Wednesday, 10/28/2020
Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan
Wednesday, 11/4/2020
Wednesday, 11/18/2020
Wednesday, 12/16/2020
Managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center and a world-renowned trumpeter and composer
