The Forte/Piano Summer Academy will return to Cornell July 30-Aug. 3 after two years away.
Hosted by the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards (CCHK) in conjunction with the Chamber Music Collective (CMC), the collaboration will combine CMC's international experts in the history and performance of eighteenth- and nineteenth- century music with the CCHK collection's representative instruments. The week will culminate with a series of concerts, presentations and roundtable discussions featuring distinguished performing artists, teachers and "rising stars," the organizers announced.
Young artists were selected from a competitive application process to participate in an immersion experience with the Cornell keyboards, one of the world's most significant collections of performance-ready historical pianos. The musicians include pianists, violinists, cellists and vocalists, and hail from locations as far flung as Germany, Italy and California, as well as New York.
Participants will explore the world of chamber music using historical technologies and techniques, working closely with academy faculty members Roger Moseley, associate professor of music (keyboards) and Jean Bernard Cerin, assistant professor of music (voice), both in the College of Arts and Sciences; Sezi Seskir (Bucknell, keyboards); Christine Brandes (University of California, Berkeley (voice); Keiran Campbell (Tafelmusik, cello); Lucy Russell (Royal College of Music, violin); and Timothy Pyper (Williams College, Alexander Technique).
