Guest conductor Peter Oundjian leads the Yale Philharmonia in an evening of Russian music October 22
Program features Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, plus Glinka and Koussevitzky The Yale School of Music presents the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale and principal guest conductor Peter Oundjian on Friday, October 22 at 8 pm in Woolsey Hall (corner of College and Grove Streets, New Haven). All the music on the program is from Russia, with [...]
Grad Night with the Yale Philharmonia Friday, Sep. 24
Events bring together grad students for a concert and reception All Yale graduate and professional students are invited to the School of Music’s first Yale Philharmonia concert of the year on Friday, September 24th at 8pm in Woolsey Hall. A block of seats will be held just for grad/prof students and their guests until 7:55pm. [...]
Yale Philharmonia opens season on September 24 with pianist Peter Frankl in Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto
Program also features Berlioz’ Symphonie Fantastique and a Rossini Overture The Yale School of Music presents the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale in its first concert of the season on Friday, September 24 at 8 pm in Woolsey Hall (corner of College and Grove Streets, New Haven). Shinik Hahm will conduct the program, which opens with [...]
Penderecki Conducts Penderecki: The master of contemporary music leads the Yale Philharmonia
So acute is [Penderecki’s] ear for orchestral sound and so clever his manipulation of it that wood, metal and string take on an anthropomorphic quality. –Bernard Holland, The New York Times The Yale School of Music presents the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale in Penderecki Conducts Penderecki on Thursday, April 29 at 8 pm in Woolsey [...]
New CD from faculty composer Ingram Marshall
Ingram Marshall, visiting lecturer in composition at the School of Music, has released a new CD. Titled “Ingram Marshall: September Canons,” the album features the Yale Philharmonia and conductor Julian Pellicano ’07MM, among other performers. Tracks include “Peaceable Kingdom,” which was performed and recorded in Sprague Hall by the Yale Philharmonia under the baton of [...]
Yale Philharmonia offers four 20th-century works for chamber orchestra in Sprague Hall Feb. 26-27
Program features the original version of Copland’s Appalachian Spring The Yale Philharmonia, the premier ensemble of the Yale School of Music, will present two concerts of music for chamber orchestra on Friday and Saturday, February 26 and 27, at 8 pm in Sprague Hall. The program, which is the same each night, belies the twentieth [...]
Peter Oundjian to conduct Yale Philharmonia Jan. 22
Oundjian leads the orchestra in Rimsky-Korsakov, Walton, Vaughan Williams The Yale School of Music presents the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale with guest conductor Peter Oundjian on Friday, January 22 at 8 pm in Woolsey Hall (500 College Street, New Haven). Oundjian, music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia’s principal guest conductor, will [...]
New Music for Orchestra Dec. 11 features music by David Lang
The Yale School of Music presents a concert of new music for orchestra, performed by the Yale Philharmonia under the direction of Shinik Hahm, on Friday, December 11 at 8 pm in Woolsey Hall. The concert highlights two works by David Lang: International Business Machine and Grind to a Halt. International Business Machine, subtitled “an [...]
East Coast premiere of new Aaron Jay Kernis symphony
Yale presents the East Coast premiere of Aaron Jay Kernis’s major new work, the “profoundly spiritual” Symphony of Meditations The Yale School of Music, Institute of Sacred Music, and Glee Club will present the East Coast premiere of Aaron Jay Kernis’s Symphony of Meditations, a major new work in the repertoire for orchestra and chorus, [...]
Yale Philharmonia to perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 4
Concert opens with Brahms, including the Variations on a Theme of Haydn Music director Shinik Hahm will lead the Yale Philharmonia in a program of Brahms and Mahler on Friday, October 23 at 8 pm. The free concert will take place in historic Woolsey Hall, where nearly 100 years ago (in February of 1910) Mahler [...]
Season Finale: Yale Philharmonia plays Rachmaninoff, Strauss, Ravel
In its final concert of the season, the Yale Philharmonia will perform three colorful and popular works from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on Friday, May 1 at 8 pm in Woolsey Hall. Conducting fellow Julian Pellicano will lead the orchestra in Richard Strauss’s rollicking Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, a tone poem from [...]
Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition offers an exciting mix of performers
The Yale School of Music presents the annual Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition, which will take place on Saturday, March 28, 2009 from 9 am to 5 pm, in Sprague Memorial Hall (corner of College and Wall Street). The different departments of the School of Music – from piano to winds and brass, from strings to [...]
Yale Opera presents a new production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute
Follow the sound of Tamino’s magic flute into Mozart’s bewitching fairytale opera, where good triumphs over evil, darkness gives way to light, and love conquers all. The Yale School of Music presents Yale Opera’s new production of Mozart’s classic Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) at the Shubert Theater, 247 College Street, Friday, February 13 and [...]
Live from Sprague Hall: Yale Percussion Group
Yale Percussion Group February 7, 2003 James Wood: Village Burial with Fire The internationally-acclaimed Yale Percussion Group performs James Wood’s exhilarating Village Burial with Fire. Founded in 1997 by renowned faculty percussionist Robert van Sice, the Yale Percussion Group is an ensemble that composer Steve Reich has called “something truly extraordinary.” James Wood, one of [...]
Peter Oundjian, Yale professor and music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducts the Philharmonia
January 23 program includes Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8 and Bartók’s Viola Concerto in a performance dedicated to the late violist and conductor Jesse Levine Peter Oundjian, well-known internationally as a remarkable musician who successfully made the transition from one of the world’s leading violinists to a highly-acclaimed conductor, will guest-conduct the Yale Philharmonia on Friday, [...]
Turangalîla Symphony
at Carnegie Hall garners rave reviews
The Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale performed Olivier Messiaen’s epic Turangalîla Symphonie at Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall on Sunday, December 14, under the baton of guest conductor Reinbert de Leeuw and with Wei-Yi Yang at the piano and Geneviève Grenier at the ondes Martenot to close the Messiaen Centenary Celebration. The critical reception to the [...]
