A recent Wall Street Journal article about the biennial Boston Early Music Festival highlights a number of college early music programs, including Cornish’s. Stephen Stubbs (pictured), the co-artistic director of the festival, is an adjunct professor in the Cornish music department.
From the article by Heidi Waleson, “The performance of music from before 1800, using historically informed styles and period instruments, is a growth area in the music world . . . The first pioneering teachers began working at such schools as Oberlin (a summer program in 1972) and Indiana (1980), and the movement grew from there. In the last five years, several new programs have sprung up: at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, at Yale University and, perhaps most significantly, at the Juilliard School, the epicenter of “modern” performance training.”
Early music is an integral component in Cornish’s music curriculum and the College now offers an Artist Diploma in Early Music.
Read the rest of the WSJ article here.
Photo: Michelle Smith-Lewis
