Cornell Music presents organ and keyboard concerts

The Cornell Department of Music presents three free concerts from September 11 to 17, including welcoming this year’s Visiting Lecturer and Interim University Organist Amanda Mole. On Thursday, Sept. 11 at 7:30 p.m. in Anabel Taylor Chapel, Mole will perform an organ recital titled “Inspirations,” a program of Johann Sebastian Bach and those who inspired his compositions, including Pachelbel, Vivaldi, Sweelinck, and Bruhns. 

Amanda has performed and presented masterclasses internationally at venues across the USA, Europe, and Japan and is quickly earning a reputation as one of the leading concert organists of her generation. A winner of numerous organ competition prizes and a performer at many national organ conventions, she recently completed a Doctor of Musical Arts degree as a student of David Higgs at the Eastman School of Music. Previously, she graduated from Yale with a Master of Music degree in Organ Performance and Sacred Music.

The first installment of a new piano series at theHerbert F. Johnson Museum of Art takes place on Friday, Sept. 12 at 5:15 pm. “Nature and Landscape in the Salon Room” will feature the Museum’s Salon Wall of American landscape paintings as an inspiration and backdrop, with Federico Ercoli performing a program of nineteenth- and twentieth-century piano music themed to Nature and the Sublime by Robert Schumann, John Cage, and Franz Liszt on the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboard’s John Broadwood & Sons grand piano, London, 1865. 

The Midday Music for Organ series begins onWednesday, Sept. 17 at 12:30pm in Anabel Taylor Chapel, featuring organists Jennifer Shin and Jasmine Ngai. The program “The Multifaceted Bach” will explore the many forms and styles of Johann Sebastian Bach. 

All events above are free and open to the public and are subject to change.