Stanford Recording Arts Workshop
2026-07-27 - 2026-08-07 | Stanford Recording Arts Workshop, Stanford, CA
Cory teaches the famed Stanford University Recording Arts Workshop for his fifth year! An intense and fun two week program — all day five days a week for two weeks — where an incredible ensemble of international musicians creates a double album and supports each other in their work. You could be one of them!

"Pockets" Single & Video
2026-07-31 | Riley Max, Lone Tree, CO
The release of the opening single and video from Harvard Music student and Cory’s daughter Riley Max’s second album, which Cory Co-Produced with Riley.

2026 Stanford Recording Arts Workshop Album
2026-08-12 | Stanford Recording Arts Workshop, Stanford, CA
This year’s double album by Cory’s student ensemble at Stanford University — created and recorded in two deeply-focused weeks at Stanford by Cory’s Stanford Recording Arts Workshop students and Cory himself — is released. Always a diverse album of brilliant musicians, Cory never has any idea what will be on this album until the two weeks it is made with his wonderful Stanford students. Musicians and teachers! Find info and an application/enrollment link in the Teaching section of this website.

"Positive Energy! (The Music of Doctor Noize)" Album
2026-08-21 | Doctor Noize Inc., Lone Tree, CO
The release date of Cory’s alter ego Doctor Noize’s retrospective album “Positive Energy! (The Music of Doctor Noize)!” A joyous celebration of his diverse career and impact in family music and education, it includes two favorites from each Doctor Noize album — including the two final future Doctor Noize albums — and several new singles exclusive to this album with an acclaimed array of luminaries!

"Making Of Positive Energy!" Video
2026-08-21
A video on the retrospective album of Cory’s alter ego Doctor Noize — an album two decades in the making — will be released today. Directed by Sidney Cullinan.

Rooted and Rising: Building Inner Resilience for an Unstable Climate
2026-09-01 19:00 - 20:00 UTC
Cory is the moderator and interviewer of this online discussion for “Stanford Alumni in Sustainability – Climate Action Forum” with his longtime friend and environmentalist Kristan Childs (Stanford ’92, MA ’97) and Teddy Kellam. Cory is a Board member of the the Climate Action Forum.

"Year 1" Single & Video
2026-09-10 | Riley Max, Lone Tree, CO
The release of the second single and video from Harvard Music student and Cory’s daughter Riley Max’s second album, which Cory Co-Produced with Riley.

Children's Music Network Annual Conference
2026-09-24 - 2026-09-27
Cory will be in Philadelphia as a member of the Board of this organization whose work he believes in very much. He’ll be meeting, speaking and performing as his alter ego Doctor Noize.

Riley Max Album #2 Release
2026-10-02 | Riley Max, Lone Tree, CO
The release of the second album from Harvard Music student and Cory’s daughter Riley Max, who is also the Music Director of the award-winning Harvard Veritones a cappella group.

"Music! Bright Music!" Single & Video
2026-10-30 | Doctor Noize Inc., Lone Tree, CO
The final Single & Video surrounding the retrospective album “Positive Energy! (The Music Of Doctor Noize)” is this buoyant track introducing newcomers to the worlds of the orchestra and musical theatre. Featuring the Doc, Grammy-winning mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, Grammy-winning baritone Nathan Gunn, Conductor Kyle Pickett, and the City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.

Lullaby Project with Carnegie Hall & Strings Music Festival
2026-11-05 - 2026-11-08
Cory has been commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the Strings Music Festival as part of the Lullaby Project to write and record songs with families in Steamboat Strings, CO. He’ll be there for four days as Artist In Residence!

"Empathy" Single & Video
2026-12-18
Cory’s annual avant-garde piece for his Seven Years Of Sensation Project is called “Empathy,” and will be released today. It’s both a deeply personal work about his own experience and a collaborative effort by his Stanford students — simultaneously purposeful and composed and a homage to John Cage’s “Musicircus,” which Cory played saxophone on as an undergrad for Cage himself in a performance at Stanford in 1992.
