School of Music awards prizes at annual honors dinner
The School of Music held its annual honors dinner on Sunday, May 5. The event offered tributes to distinguished alumni and faculty, and honored outstanding students. The Cultural Leadership Citation was awarded to James D’Addario. D’Addario is the CEO of D’Addario Strings, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of instrument strings, and (with his wife) co-founder of [...]
Music at Yale: Spring 2013
We’re pleased to post the newest issue of our alumni magazine, Music at Yale. We’d welcome your feedback in the comments. If you can’t see the magazine below, please click HERE.
Hindemith at the Yale School of Music
In the last issue of Music at Yale, the School of Music’s alumni magazine, the story about Paul Hindemith included two historical photos — along with a request for help in identifying the students in them. We were pleased to receive multiple replies, and we can now identify the members of the Collegium Musicum in the [...]
Mario Aschauer lectures on equal temperament April 24
On April 24, 2013 at 4 pm, Mario Aschauer will present a lecture called, “Has Equal Temperament Really Ruined Harmony?” The event takes place in Hendrie Hall, Room 205. Aschauer is a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale School of Music pursuing research for a book on Anton Bruckner’s compositional procedures. Has equal temperament really ruined harmony, as R. Duffin’s [...]
American Pianists Association names Sean Chen winner of 2013 Classical Fellowship
Further APA performance in NYC, April 25, plus broadcasts The American Pianists Association has named Sean Chen ’14AD the winner of its yearlong competition. As the APA’s 2013 Christel DeHaan Classical Fellow, Chen is the recipient of a prize valued at more than $100,000 – one of the most lucrative available to an American pianist. An [...]
Master class with Marni Nixon March 25
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music presents a master class with soprano Marni Nixon and members of the Yale Voxtet on Monday, March 25th at 4pm. Repertoire for the class will include works of Igor Stravinsky (with whom she collaborated extensively), Arnold Schoenberg, and George Gershwin. The class will take place in the ISM Great Hall (409 [...]
David Lang to receive Hans Christian Andersen Prize
Composer David Lang ’89DMA is among those selected to receive this year’s Hans Christian Andersen Prize. He was selected for his composition The Little Match Girl Passion (2007), the piece for which he also won the Pulitzer Prize in Music. The recording of the work (by Theatre of Voices) received a Grammy Award in 2010. [...]
Yale Summer School of Music – Norfolk Chamber Music Festival announces 2013 season
June 22 – August 17: 2013 Norfolk Festival to feature six string quartets The Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, presented by the Yale School of Music, celebrates its 72nd season this year with performances and residencies by six internationally esteemed string quartets alongside students and young professionals from around the world. From June 22 to August 17, [...]
In memoriam: Dave Brubeck, 91
On December 5 the music world, and in particular American music, lost one of its great artists. Dave Brubeck‘s distinctive voice changed the landscape of jazz in this country and beyond. One of Brubeck’s lifelong friendships was with Aldo Parisot, Professor of Cello of Yale and one of Yale’s longest-serving faculty members. This relationship began [...]
Peter Frankl performs music of Schubert and Debussy Dec. 12
Concert also features Ettore Causa, viola The Horowitz Piano Series at the Yale School of Music presents a recital by Peter Frankl, hailed by Auditorium as “not a mere pianist, but a true artist.” The recital, which focuses on the music of Schubert and Debussy, takes place Wednesday, December 12 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall. The concert opens [...]
Piano student Lee Dionne takes third in Mottram Competition
Lee Dionne ’13MM placed third in the James Mottram International Piano Competition, held last week at the Northern Royal College of Music. The third biennial James Mottram International Piano Competition took place Monday, November 26 through Saturday, December 1, 2012. The competition offers an all-round learning experience for young pianists from all over the world, mixing opportunities to [...]
New Music New Haven hosts renowned composer George Crumb Nov. 15
“One of the most distinctive compositional voices to emerge in the second half of the twentieth century.” –AllMusic The Yale School of Music presents a New Music New Haven concert featuring the music of George Crumb on Thursday, November 15, 2012. One of today’s most-performed composers, Crumb is the winner of a Pulitzer Prize, a Grammy Award, [...]
Actress to bring Dickens characters to life at British Art Center
Award-winning British stage and screen actress Miriam Margolyes will perform her celebrated production of “Dickens’ Women” at the Yale Center for British Art on Wednesday, Nov. 7, at 6 pm. The production features Margolyes portraying 23 of Dickens’ best-loved characters. Acclaimed pianist Wei-Yi Yang will accompany Margolyes on piano with music contemporary to Dickens’ time. [...]
Lou Donaldson receives Ellington Medal
Lou Donaldson, the legendary saxophonist and recently named NEA Jazz Master, was awarded an Ellington Medal last Friday, October 5. Willie Ruff, the director of the Ellington Fellowship at Yale, conferred the medal during a concert featuring Donaldson and his quartet. The concert, which took place in Morse Recital Hall, was the second event of the 2012–13 [...]
Margins and Mirrors: Dean Blocker’s Convocation Address
Robert Blocker, Dean of the School of Music, delivered this address to the incoming class at the School’s Fall Convocation on September 6, 2012. MARGINS and MIRRORS Tonight I want to think with you about the margins and mirrors that determine the course and quality of our lives. Margins are measurements of time and space that [...]
Norfolk Festival featured in Financial Times
In an article titled “A legacy of lyricism,” the Financial Times praised the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival–Yale Summer School of Music alongside the BBC Proms. Author Harry Eyres writes about how “the summer music festival season in Britain and the U.S. has made me reflect on ways of making a cultural legacy last.” One of those [...]
“Observe the Fermata”: Dean Blocker’s address to the Class of 2012
The Yale School of Music held its Commencement exercises on Monday, May 21, 2012 in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall. Here is the text of Dean Robert Blocker’s address to the Class of 2012. In his epic poem THE FOUR QUARTETS, T.S. Elliot offers this revelation: What we call the beginning is often the [...]
Joseph Polisi ’80DMA awarded Sanford Medal
At the Yale School of Music’s 119th Commencement today, alumnus Joseph Polisi was awarded the Samuel Simons Sanford Medal. The highest honor bestowed by the School of Music, the medal is awarded for distinguished service to music. Polisi was awarded the DMA degree from the Yale School of Music in 1980, after earning his MM [...]
Yale awards honorary degree to Midori
At Yale’s 311th Commencement exercises this morning, the violinist Midori was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree. In awarding the honorary degree, University President Richard C. Levin said: With poise, precision, and artistry, you have been acclaimed as one of the world’s great violinists since the age of fourteen. Equally gifted in the classical and [...]
Commencement Events 2012
This year marks the Yale School of Music’s hundred nineteenth Commencement, and Yale University’s three hundred eleventh Commencement. On Sunday, May 20 at 4 pm, the School of Music will present its annual Commencement Concert, featuring outstanding performers from the Class of 2012. This concert, which is free and open to the public, takes place [...]
Faculty profile: Ettore Causa, viola
Ettore Causa joined the School of Music faculty in the fall of 2009. He brought not only his experience on the concert stage but a deep passion for teaching. In this brand-new video, watch him in his studio, hear from some of his students, and learn about his unique approach to teaching.
ISM holds symposium on Haydn’s Creation
The Creation in Context: Symposium examining the musical, liturgical, and literary contexts of Haydn’s masterpiece The Institute of Sacred Music presents a symposium this Saturday called The Creation in Context. The event will examine the musical, liturgical, and literary contexts of Haydn’s masterpiece. The symposium is presented in conjunction with the performance of Haydn’s Die [...]
Tokyo String Quartet to retire from international concert stage after 2012–2013 season
The Tokyo String Quartet announced today that the concert season 2012–2013 will be its last. One of the world’s most distinguished chamber music ensembles, the quartet was founded in 1969 and joined the faculty of the Yale School of Music as Artists-in-Residence in 1977. The Tokyo Quartet – Martin Beaver, violin; Kikuei Ikeda, violin; Kazuhide [...]
YIMT: Call for Singing Actors
The Yale Institute for Music Theatre seeks singing actors with pop, rock, and contemporary musical theatre voices for the 2012 Institute. Auditions are scheduled for Sunday, April 22. Singers are requested to prepare 36 bars of an up-tempo song and one monologue (contemporary or classical) no longer than 1.5 minutes. This summer’s two-week Institute will [...]
