past seasons.

2023–2024 Season

  • 🗓️ September 23rd at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    👑 Gabriela Gómez Estévez, Conductor

    JESSIE MONTGOMERY Starburst

    GEORGE WALKER Lyric for Strings

    LEOS JANACEK Suite for Strings

    [Intermission]

    JOSE PABLO MONCAYO Huapango

    ANTONIN DVORAK Symphony No. 8 in G major

  • 🗓️ November 11th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    👑 Gabriela Gómez Estévez, Conductor

    W.A. MOZART Divertimento, K. 138

    REIKO FUTING Mo(nu)ment for C/Palimpsest

    PAULA MATHUSEN such is now the necessity

    EDVARD GRIEG Holberg Suite

  • 🗓️ December 2nd at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    👑 Gabriela Gómez Estévez, Conductor

    CARLOS SIMON Go Down Moses from A Folklore Symphony

    AARON COPLAND Lincoln Portrait

    FLORENCE PRICE Symphony No. 3 in C minor

  • 🗓️ March 2nd at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    👑 Gabriela Gómez Estévez, Conductor

    🎹 Jonathan Indajang, Piano – 19th Annual Cornell Concerto Competition Winner

    WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART The Magic Flute, K. 620: Overture

    FELIX MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor

    I. Molto allegro con fuoco

    II. Andante

    GABRIEL FAURÉ Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80

    ALEXANDER BORODIN Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances

  • 🗓️ March 10th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    👑 Gabriela Gómez Estévez, Conductor

    🎶 Juliana Papinsky and Amy Elizabeth Shuhan, Flute

    ARVO PÄRT Silouans Song

    ANTONIO VIVALDI Concerto for 2 Flutes in C major, RV 533

    OTTORINO RESPIGHI Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3

  • 🗓️ April 28th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    👑 Gabriela Gómez Estévez, Conductor

    🎻 Christina Bouey, Violin

    HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS Aria from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5

    JOSÉ ELIZONDO Estampas Mexicanas

    CARLOS GARDEL Por una Cabeza

    ASTOR PIAZZOLLA The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires: Winter and Spring

  • 🗓️ May 3rd at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    👑 Gabriela Gómez Estévez, Conductor

    🎹 Christopher Richardson, Piano

    LIBBY LARSEN Deep Summer Music

    EDVARD GRIEG Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16

    PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17

2022–2023 Season

  • 🗓️ October 2nd at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Kirsten Marshall, Conductor

    C.P.E. BACH Sinfonia No. 3 in C Major, Wq. 182

    PUCCINI Crisantemi

    RESPIGHI Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3

    BUNCH Supermaximum

  • 🗓️ October 14th at 7:30 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Guillaume Pirard, Conductor

    GARROP Penelope Waits

    RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade, Op. 35

  • 🗓️ November 20th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Kirsten Marshall, Conductor 

    MENDELSSOHN String Symphony No. 3 in E Minor

    PATERSON Suite for String Orchestra

    TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48

  • 🗓️ December 3rd at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Guillaume Pirard, Conductor 

    BOULANGER D'un matin de printemps

    SNIDER Something for the Dark

    BONDS Montgomery Variations

  • 🗓️ March 11th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Guillaume Pirard, Conductor

    🎹 Brian Wang, Piano – 18th Annual Cornell Concerto Competition Winner

    BEETHOVEN Coriolan Overture

    ADAMS The Chairman Dances

    CETILIA Aristolochia (World Premiere)

    SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No. 2

  • 🗓️ March 19th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Kirsten Marshall, Conductor

    🤝 Ithaca High School

    NORDGREN Portraits of Country Fiddlers

    WIRÉN Serenade for Strings

    GRIEG Last Spring

    NIELSEN Suite for Strings

  • 🗓️ April 29th at 7:30 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Guillaume Pirard and Joe Lerangis, Conductors

    🤝 Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club

    SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759, "Unfinished"

    MOZART Requiem, K. 626

    PÄRT Da pacem Domine

  • 🗓️ May 1st at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🎻 Ariana Kim (violin), Danny Kim (viola), John Haines-Eitzen (cello), Soloists

    VIVALDI Concerto for Cello in D Minor, RV 405

    VIVALDI Concerto for Two Cellos in G Minor, RV 531

    MOZART Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, K. 364

2021–2022 Season

  • 🗓️ October 3rd at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Michelle Di Russo, Conductor

    🎻 Rebecca Anderson, Violin

    ASSAD Suite for Lower Strings

    RICHTER Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Recomposed (Spring & Summer)

    [Intermission]

    MÁRQUEZ Danzón No. 2

    DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, "From the New World"

  • 🗓️ November 13th at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Michelle Di Russo, Conductor

    🎹 Xak Bjerken, Piano

    SIMON AMEN!

    GERSHWIN Variations on "I Got Rhythm"

    STILL Symphony No. 1, "Afro-American Symphony"

  • 🗓️ November 14th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Michelle Di Russo, Conductor

    PÄRT Cantus in Memoriam of Benjamin Britten

    COLERIDGE     Four Novelletten Op. 53

    ELGAR     Serenade Op. 20 in E minor

  • 🗓️ March 5th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Michelle Di Russo, Conductor

    LOUILARPPRASERT Auen Auen (World Premiere)

    TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, TH 42, CW 39

    STRAVINSKY Firebird Suite (1919)

  • 🗓️ March 27th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Michelle Di Russo, Conductor

    DE MONDONVILLE Excerpts from Titon et l'Aurore, Pastorale heroique in a prologue & three acts

    ORLANDINI Excerpts from Il Giocatore

    DAUVERGNE

    «Les TROQUEURS»

    Intermède [Opéra bouffon] en un acte et un ballet

    Libretto: Jean-Joseph Vadé

    Paris, 1753

  • 🗓️ April 24th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Michelle Di Russo, Conductor

    🎻 Nanor Seraydarian, Violin – 17th Annual Cornell Concerto Competition Winner

    SABZGHABEI World Premiere

    CHAUSSON Poème, Op. 25

    TCHAIKOVSKY     Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64

  • 🗓️ May 1st at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Michelle Di Russo, Conductor

    🪗 JP Jofre, Bandoneon

    LAROSA And Death Shall Have No Dominion (World Premiere)

    JOFRE Tangodromo

2020–2021 Season

  • 🗓️ October 4th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    VON BINGEN De Innocentibus Rex Noster (arranged by Marianne Richert Pfau)

    CARRENO Serenade for String Orchestra

    [Intermission]

    SIMON AMEN!

    RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27

  • 🗓️ November 15th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    LIGETI Ramifications for String Orchestra

    TICHELI Rest for String Orchestra

    KAPRÁLOVÁ Partita for Piano and Strings

  • 🗓️ November 21st at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    C. SCHUMANN Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 7

    STRAVINSKY     Rite of Spring

  • 🗓️ March 6th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    FARRENC Overture No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 23

    PRICE Symphony No. 4 in D minor

  • 🗓️ March 27th at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    DE MONDONVILLE Excerpts from Titon et l'Aurore, Pastorale heroique in a prologue & three acts

    ORLANDINI Excerpts from Il Giocatore

    DAUVERGNE

    «Les TROQUEURS»

    Intermède [Opéra bouffon] en un acte et un ballet

    Libretto: Jean-Joseph Vadé

    Paris, 1753

  • 🗓️ April 25th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    USTVOLSKAYA​ Symphony No. 2, “True and Eternal Bliss!”

    SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47

  • 🗓️ May 2nd at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    PRICE Adoration for String Orchestra (arranged by Chris Kim)

    VIVALDI Chamber Concerto in D major, RV 93 (guitar and strings)

    SAINT-GEORGES Ouverture de L'amant anonyme (2 oboes, 2 horns, and strings)

    BERNSTEIN Halil, Nocturne for Solo Flute, String Orchestra and Percussion

  • 🗓️ May 9th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    PRICE Adoration for String Orchestra (arranged by Chris Kim)

    MAHLER Symphony No. 4 (first three movements; arranged by Erwin Stein)

    COPLAND Appalachian Spring Suite

2019–2020 Season

  • 🗓️ September 29th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Katherine Kilburn, Conductor

    SUK Serenade for Strings in E flat major, Op. 6

    [Intermission]

    KIM A Tramp in the Assembly Line

    RESPIGHI Pines of Rome, P 141

  • 🗓️ October 19th at 7:30 p.m. ET

    📍 Ford Hall, Ithaca College

    🧍 Cornelia Laemmli Orth, Conductor

    V. WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

  • 🗓️ November 17th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Katherine Kilburn, Conductor

    COOLEY Argo

    BRAHMS     Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

  • 🗓️ November 24th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Katherine Kilburn, Conductor

    MENDELSSOHN String Symphony No. 10 in B minor, MWV N 10

    DVORAK Two Waltzes Op. 54

    IVES The Unanswered Question

    SIBELIUS Rakastava (The Lover), Op. 14

  • 🗓️ February 29th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Katherine Kilburn, Conductor

    🎶 Joy Zhang, Flute – 16th Annual Cornell Concerto Competition Winner

    FRANK Apu: Tone Poem for Orchestra

    HÜE Fantasie for Flute and Orchestra

    SIBELIUS Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op. 104

  • 🗓️ March 8th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Katherine Kilburn, Conductor

    🎻 Ariana Kim, Violin

    MOZART Serenade No. 6 for Orchestra in D major K. 239, Serenata notturna

    COLE Death of the Poet

    BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61

  • 🗓️ April 19th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Katherine Kilburn, Conductor

    LANG Statement to the Court

    DEBUSSY La mer

    POULENC Gloria, FP 177

  • 🗓️ April 26th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Katherine Kilburn, Conductor

    SHOSTAKOVICH Chamber Symphony in C minor, Op. 110a

2018–2019 Season

  • 🗓️ September 30th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Henry Hao-An Cheng, Conductor

    🎹 Byron Wei-Xin Zhou, Piano

    SHAW Entr'acte

    SHAW Music in Common Time (with Chamber Singers)

    RESPIGHI Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3

    [Intermission]

    XINGHAI Yellow River Piano Concerto

    ELGAR Nimrod and Finale from the Enigma Variations, Op. 36

  • 🗓️ October 21st at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Henry Hao-An Cheng, Conductor

    🎻 Jennifer Koh, Violin

    CLYNE Rest These Hands

  • 🗓️ November 18th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Octavio Más-Arocas, Conductor

    MAHLER Symphony No. 1 in D major ("Titan")

  • 🗓️ November 29th at 5:30 p.m. ET

    📍 Cayuga Heights Elementary School

    🧍 Madeline Schatz-Harris, Conductor

    🎶 Timna Mayer, Leader

    TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48

    RICHTER Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Recomposed (Spring & Summer)

  • 🗓️ January 11th–20th

    📍 Taipei, Taiwan (Zhongshan Hall, Zhongzheng Auditorium)

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🤝 Taipei Symphony Orchestra

    🎻 Ting-Hsuan Hu, Violin

    MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

    MAHLER Symphony No. 1 in D major ("Titan")

  • 🗓️ March 9th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Adrian Slywotzky, Conductor

    🎹 Aditya Deshpande, Piano – 15th Annual Cornell Concerto Competition Winner

    RAVEL/MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition

    LISZT Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, S.124

  • 🗓️ March 17th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🎶 Timna Mayer, Leader

    BARTÓK Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56, BB. 68

    MOZART Eine kleine Nachtmusik K. 525, I. Allegro

    PIAZZOLLA Muerte del ángel & Libertango

  • 🗓️ April 26th at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🎶 Timna Mayer, Leader

    🎻 John Haines-Eitzen, Cello

    🎻 Anna McDougall, Violin – CCO Soloist

    C.P.E. BACH Cello Concerto in A major, H. 439

    THOMAS RACHMAN Overture

    SARASATE Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25 (first two movements)

    GRIEG 2 Melodies, Op. 53: No. 1, Norwegian (conducted by student Andy Sheng)

    HOLST St Paul's Suite in C major (Op. 29, No. 2), I. Jig: Vivace

  • 🗓️ April 28th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Adrian Slywotzky, Conductor

    STRAVINSKY The Firebird Suite (1919 version)

    BRAHMS Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90

    BILIR Katik (World Premiere)

2017–2018 Season

  • 🗓️ September 30th at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    📯 Alex Shuhan, Horn

    SCHULLER Journey Into Jazz (with CU Jazz, Martha Pollack, Paul Merrill, and James Spinazzola)

    BACEWICZ Concerto for String Orchestra

    [Intermission]

    TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 (first movement)

    STEPHENSON Sounds Awakened, Concerto for French Horn

    ELLINGTON/TYZIK Black, Brown And Beige Suite

  • 🗓️ November 11th at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎹 Miri Yampolsky, Piano

    🎷 James Spinazzola, Tenor/Soprano Saxophone

    SHARP Farther from the Truth for Orchestra (World Premiere)

    SCHUMANN Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54

    TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 (second movement)

    ELLINGTON/HENDERSON Three Black Kings

  • 🗓️ November 19th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎻 Victoria Miskolczy, Viola

    SUK Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale 'St. Wenceslas', op. 35a

    TELEMANN Viola Concerto in G major, TWV 51:G9

    BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 1

  • 🗓️ November 30th at 5:30 p.m. ET

    📍 Cayuga Heights Elementary School

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    BACEWICZ Concerto for String Orchestra

    SUK Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale 'St. Wenceslas', op. 35a

  • 🗓️ December 1st at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Sage Chapel, Cornell University

    🧍 Stephen Spinelli, Conductor

    🤝 Cornell University Chorale

    VIVALDI Gloria

  • 🗓️ March 4th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎶 Dennis Kim, Guest Artist/Leader

    GOLIJOV Last Round

    BARTÓK Divertimento for String Orchestra, Sz. 113, BB. 118

  • 🗓️ March 11th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🤝 CCO Youth Orchestra, IHS Chamber Orchestra

    🎹 Andy Sheng, Piano – 14th Annual Cornell Concerto Competition Winner

    BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 (first movement)

    MARSALIS Blues Symphony (second and third movements)

    TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17 (fourth movement)

  • 🗓️ March 28th at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🤝 Wynton Marsalis, A.D. White House Professor – Masterclass and Rehearsal

    MARSALIS Blues Symphony (movements 2–5, World Premiere of the Revised Version)

    Link to Cornell Cast of the Concert

  • 🗓️ April 22nd at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎶 Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Voice

    COPLAND Appalachian Spring

    BARBER Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24

  • 🗓️ April 29th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    TCHAIKOVSKY Marche Slave in B-flat minor, Op. 31

    TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 (complete)

  • 🗓️ May 5th at 7:30 p.m. ET

    📍 Ford Hall, Ithaca College

    🤝 Larry Rachleff – Ithaca International Conducting Masterclass

    TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 (Cornell Symphony Orchestra)

    BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 (Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra)

2016–2017 Season

  • 🗓️ October 1st at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎹 Shin Hwang, Piano

    VIVALDI La follia, Op. 1 No. 12

    MOZART Piano Concerto No. 18 in B♭ Major, K. 456

    [Intermission]

    KUSTER Devil’s Thumb

    MAHLER Symphony No. 6: Movements 1, 2 (Andante), 3 (Scherzo)

    Link to Webcast

  • 🗓️ November 12th at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎹 Malcolm Bilson, Fortepiano

    KIM Lullaby of the Waves

    GRIEG Two Nordic Melodies, Op. 63

    MOZART Piano Concerto No. 14 in E♭ Major, K. 449

  • 🗓️ November 18th at 8:45 a.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🤝 Presentation for Conference of New York State Superintendents

    VIVALDI La Follia, Op. 1 No. 12

    Link to the Talk

    Link to the Rehearsal Demo

    Link to the Performance

  • 🗓️ November 19th at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎶 Jessica Rivera, Soprano

    🎶 Nilo Cruz, Poet

    FRANK La Centinela y La Paloma (The Keeper and the Dove)

    MAHLER Symphony No. 6: Movement 4 (Finale)

    Link to Webcast

  • 🗓️ December 2nd at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Sage Chapel, Cornell University

    🧍 Stephen Spinelli, Conductor

    🤝 Cornell University Chorale

    VIVALDI La Follia, Op. 1 No. 12

    VIVALDI Beatus Vir, RV 598

  • 🗓️ March 5th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎻 Irene Jeong, Cello – 13th Annual Cornell Concerto Competition Winner

    🎶 Richard Faria, Clarinet

    STRAUSS Fanfare for the Vienna Philharmonic

    KO Strange Sounds and Explosions Worldwide

    SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 1: Movements 1, 2

    LAURIDSEN O Magnum Mysterium

    TOWER Clarinet Concerto

    SIBELIUS Finlandia, Op. 26

    Link to Webcast

  • 🗓️ March 11th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎹 Roger Moseley, Fortepiano

    ELGAR Serenade for Strings, Op. 20
    Link to Elgar

    SHARP Hear Me
    Link to Sharp

    MOZART Piano Concerto No. 19 in F Major, K. 459
    Link to Mozart

  • 🗓️ March 31st–April 9th

    📍 Argentina

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Andres Tolcachir, Conductors

    🤝 La Orquesta Sinfónica del Neuquén

    MAHLER Symphony No. 6

    Learn About Our Tour

    Local Media Coverage

  • 🗓️ April 13th at 6 p.m. ET

    📍 Cayuga Heights Elementary School

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    ELGAR Serenade for Strings, Op. 20

    DVORAK Serenade for Strings in E Major, Op. 22

  • 🗓️ April 30th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎹 Xak Bjerken, Piano

    DVORAK Serenade for Strings in E Minor, Op. 22

    MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466

  • 🗓️ May 6th at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🤝 Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club

    SIBELIUS Symphony No. 7, Op. 105

    BOULANGER Psalm 130: "Du fond de l'abîme" (From the Depths)

    Link to Webcast

2015–2016 Season

  • 🗓️ October 3rd at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    GRIEG Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34

    SHOSTAKOVICH Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a

    [Intermission]

    BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture No. 3

    FROELICH Symphony No. 1 (New York Premiere)

  • 🗓️ November 14th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎻 Ariana Kim, Violin

    🎻 Susan Waterbury, Violin

    GROSSMANN Mosoq

    ARENSKY Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a

    CORELLI Concerto Grosso No. 4 in D major

    Link to Webcast

  • 🗓️ November 21st at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    BARBER Second Essay for Orchestra

    PECK Metropolitan for Orchestra

    RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade

  • 🗓️ December 3rd at 5:30 p.m. ET

    📍 Cayuga Heights Elementary School

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎻 Ariana Kim, Violin

    🎻 Susan Waterbury, Violin

    ARENSKY Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a

    CORELLI Concerto Grosso No. 4 in D major

    SHOSTAKOVICH Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a

    Christmas Carols

  • 🗓️ January 14th at 1 p.m. ET

    📍 Libby Gardner Hall, Utah University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    ARENSKY Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a

    CORELLI Concerto Grosso No. 4 in D major

    SHOSTAKOVICH Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a

    Link to Shostakovich

  • 🗓️ March 4th at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Klarman Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Kisun Sung, Conductor

    BRITTEN Sinfonietta

    BRITTEN Simple Symphony

  • 🗓️ March 12th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Kisun Sung, Conductor

    🎹 Yujin Stacy Joo, Piano – 12th Annual Cornell Concerto Competition Winner

    BORODIN On the Steppes of Central Asia

    PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26, Mvt. 1

    STRAVINSKY Firebird Suite (1919)

    Link to Webcast

  • 🗓️ May 1st at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Kisun Sung, Conductor

    LUDWIG Fanfare for Sam

    TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet

    SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2

    Link to Webcast

  • 🗓️ May 7th at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Kisun Sung, Conductor

    🎹 Xak Bjerken, Piano

    BARTÓK Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 68

    DVOŘÁK Piano Concerto in G major, Op. 33

    MOZART Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550

2014–2015 Season

  • 🗓️ October 4th at 4 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    C.P.E. BACH Klopstocks Morgengesang am Schöpfungsfeste, H. 779, Wq. 239

    C.P.E. BACH Sinfonia in B minor, H.661

  • 🗓️ October 5th at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Andrés Tolcachir, Conductor

    DAL PORTO Song of Eternity (CODA Composition Contest Winner)

    MÁRQUEZ Danzón No. 2

    GINASTERA Danzas from Estancia

    BARTÓK Concerto for Two Pianos, Percussion, and Orchestra, Sz. 115

  • 🗓️ November 14th at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎶 Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Soprano

    STARK Soldier Asleep at the Tomb
    Link to Stark

    MAHLER Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor

  • 🗓️ November 16th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎹 Miri Yampolsky, Piano

    🎺 Frank Campos, Trumpet

    STUCKY Colburn Variations

    BARBER     Adagio for Strings

    SHOSTAKOVICH     Concerto in C minor for Piano, Trumpet, and String Orchestra, Op. 35

  • 🗓️ January 9th–18th

    📍 Ireland

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🤝 Royal Irish Academy of Music and Ian Doyle

    MAHLER Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor

    Mahler 5 in Dublin (Part 1)

    Mahler 5 in Dublin (Part 2)

  • 🗓️ February 28th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎻 Paul Huang, Violin – 11th Annual Cornell Concerto Competition Winner

    WAGNER Overture to Rienzi

    LALO     Symphonie Espagnole, 1st Movement

    BERNSTEIN     Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

  • 🗓️ March 14th at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    SIBELIUS Romance in C for String Orchestra

    VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
    Link to Vaughan Williams

    RAVEL Introduction and Allegro

  • 🗓️ April 19th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎻 John Haines Eitzen, Cello

    TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48

    LOIACONO     Sleep Furiously

  • 🗓️ April 25th at 7:30 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🤝 Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club

    STUCKY Concerto for Orchestra No. 2: III. Finale

    SIERRA Carnaval: III. Unicorns

  • 🗓️ May 2nd at 4 p.m. ET

    📍 Ford Hall, Ithaca College

    🤝 Larry Rachleff – Ithaca International Conducting Masterclass

    RESPIGHI Pines of Rome

2013–2014 Season

  • 🗓️ October 6th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎷 James Spinazzola, Associate Conductor/Composer, Saxophone

    BERNSTEIN Candide Overture (JS)

    BERNSTEIN On the Waterfront Suite (CK)

    SPINAZZOLA Lost Treasures with Silent Film Directed by Gibson Frasier and Mark Shanahan (JS)

    WILLIAMS Raider’s March (JS)

  • 🗓️ October 19th at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🤝 Solisti Ensemble (Combined String Players of CSO, CCO, and IHS)

    VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Five Variants of “Dives and Lazarus”

  • 🗓️ November 17th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎷 James Spinazzola, Associate Conductor

    🎵 Niccolo D. Athens, Guest Composer/Conductor

    ATHENS Symphony in Two Parts [World Premiere] (NA)

    TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 (JS and CK)

  • 🗓️ March 7th at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎷 James Spinazzola, Associate Conductor

    🎵 Tania Leon, Guest Composer

    🎹 Ryan McCullough, Piano

    🎻 Ji Min Yang, Violin

    🎻 Daniel Cho, Cello

    LEON Batá (JS)

    LEON Kabiosile (JS)

    KORNGOLD Violin Concerto (CK)

    DVORAK Cello Concerto (CK)

    WAGNER Flying Dutchman Overture (CK)

  • 🗓️ April 28th–May 2nd

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🤝 Carl St. Clair – Ithaca International Conducting Masterclass

    PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet Suite

  • 🗓️ May 4th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🧍 Loren Loiacono, Assistant Conductor

    SAINT-SAËNS Samson and Delilah: Bacchanale

    PROKOFIEV     Selections from Romeo and Juliet Suite 1 and 2:

    Montagues and Capulets, Suite II, No. 1

    Juliet the Young Girl, Suite II, No. 2

    Masks, Suite I, No. 5

    Balcony Scene, Suite I, No. 6

    Tybalt's Death, Suite I, No. 7

    Romeo at Juliet’s Grave, Suite II, No. 7

2012–2013 Season

  • 🗓️ September 23rd at 3 p.m. ET

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎻 Ariana Kim, Violin

    MENDELSSOHN Octet (first movement), arranged for string orchestra

    VIVALDI The Four Seasons: Spring

    PIAZZOLLA Primavera Porteña from The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires

  • 🗓️ October 4th at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Niccolo D. Athens, Conductor

    🎹 Andrew Zhou, Piano

    HOVHANESS Symphony No. 2, Mysterious Mountain

    BRITTEN Piano Concerto, Op. 13

  • 🗓️ October 26th at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Sage Chapel, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🤝 Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club

    🎵 Arsenia Soto, Soprano

    🎵 Toby Newman, Mezzo-soprano

    🎵 Nathaniel McEwen, Tenor

    🎵 Brian Ming Chu, Baritone

    HAYDN Harmoniemesse

  • 🗓️ November 15th at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    YUAN Bi-Focal (World Premiere of Revised Version)

    SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5, Op. 47 in D minor

  • 🗓️ November 18th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎻 Ariana Kim, Violin

    🎻 Rebecca Lomnicky, Fiddle

    MENDELSSOHN Octet (first movement), arranged for string orchestra

    LOMNICKY     Grandma Rebecca's Favorite

    VIVALDI     The Four Seasons: Spring

    PIAZZOLLA     Primavera Porteña from The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires

  • 🗓️ March 2nd at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎵 Judith Kellock, Soprano

    ELGAR Serenade for Strings

    BRITTEN Les Illuminations, Op. 18

  • 🗓️ March 7th at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎹 Vikram Potdar, Piano – 9th Annual Cornell Concerto Competition Winner

    CACIOPPO Music for Orchestra (World Premiere)

    BARBER Piano Concerto (first movement)

    ELGAR "Enigma" Variations, Op. 36

  • 🗓️ April 14th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎻 Steven Doane, Cello

    LUTOSLAWSKI Grave for Cello and Strings

  • 🗓️ April 21st at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎻 Ariana Kim, Violin

    🎻 Inbal Segev, Cello

    🎹 Miri Yampolsky, Piano

    LUTOSLAWSKI Mala Suita

    BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto

    BARBER Symphony No. 1, Op. 9

  • 🗓️ April 27th at 4 p.m. ET

    📍 Ford Hall, Ithaca College

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto

    LUTOSLAWSKI Concerto for Orchestra

  • 🗓️ April 27th at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎷 Prism Saxophone Quartet, Guest Artists

    MOZART Symphony No. 29 in A Major

    STUCKY Music for Saxophones and Strings