Pianist David Fung reaches finals of Queen Elisabeth Competition
Pianist David Fung ’11MM, ’12MMA has been selected to compete in the final round of the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, Belgium. ”I am absolutely thrilled and humbled,” he said in an email. Video of his performance in the semifinal around is available here. Fung will compete in the finals this Friday, May 31 at the Palais [...]
Suzana Bartal wins NYCA Concerto Competition
Suzana Bartal has been named the winner of the NYCA (New York Concert Artists and Associates) Concerto Competition. There have been three rounds: the first one – preliminary on recording, and semifinal and final live auditions in New York. 12 pianists advanced to the semifinals and 4 to the finals As the winner, Bartal will [...]
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 [...]
Professor David Lang receives 2013 Doris Duke Award
Awards recognize twenty vital American contemporary artists On April 29, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation recognized twenty of America’s most vital artists working in the fields of contemporary dance, jazz, and theatre. David Lang ’89DMA, a faculty member of the School of Music, is among the 2013 recipients. Lang will receive an unrestricted, multi-year grant, [...]
YSM alum Wayne Weng wins 2013 Iowa Piano Competition
On March 9, 2013, Wayne Weng ’12AD won the Seventh Iowa International Piano Competition with his performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major. The competition, which began in 2005, is held every two years, and is limited to competitors between 18 and 35 years of age. Twelve finalists were selected from 92 [...]
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 [...]
Adrianna Tam selected for Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange
Choral conducting student accepted to program in Germany for 2013–2014 Yale School of Music student Adrianna Tam ’13MM has been selected to participate in the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX), a year-long, federally-funded fellowship for study and work in Germany. Ms. Tam, along with Yale alumna Lauren Motzkin ’12BA, was one of 75 [...]
Guitar Chamber Music Recital Presents the Classic and the Modern
On Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 8 pm, the students of guitarist Benjamin Verdery will perform a concert of Guitar Chamber Music. The event will include classic and contemporary works, including the Yale premiere of a piece by Verdery himself. Other composers featured on the program include Leo Brouwer, Napoléon Coste, Jindřich Feld, and Manuel De Falla. Brouwer’s Per [...]
Naomi Woo ’13MM awarded prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Will pursue postgraduate study at Cambridge University, U.K. Naomi Woo ’13MM has been selected as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. This October, she will pursue an M.Phil. in music studies at Cambridge University, U.K., where she will research musical performance and scholarship. This prestigious honor is extremely competitive; the fifty-one successful candidates were selected from a [...]
Henry Kramer, Antoine Malette-Chenier win 2013 Woolsey Competition
Henry Kramer, piano, and Antoine Malette-Chénier, harp, are the two winners of this year’s Woolsey Concerto Competition. Kramer played Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No.2, and Malette-Chenier played the Harp Concerto by Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer. The two will perform their winning pieces with the Yale Philharmonia during the 2013–2014 season. Violinist Yoon Won Song was selected as [...]
Alumna Caroline Shaw wins 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music
Caroline Shaw ’07MM has been named the winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music. She receives the prestigious award for her “Partita for 8 Voices,” written for the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth and released on New Amsterdam Records. The award citation calls “Partita for 8 Voices” a “highly polished and inventive a cappella work [...]
Alumnus David Pershall wins Marcello Giordani Vocal Competition
On March 30, 2013, baritone David Pershall ’10MM, 11AD won the Marcello Giordani Foundation International Vocal Competition in Vero Beach, Florida. In collaboration with and under the sponsorship of the Vero Beach Opera, the primary objective of the competition is to “lead talented young singers toward a successful career on the operatic stage.” The first [...]
In memoriam: composer and conductor Buryl Red, 77
Buryl Red ’61MM, a conductor, producer, and arranger known world-wide as the musical director of The Century Men and composer of the 1972 classic Celebrate Life, died April 1. Red, 77, was born in Little Rock, Ark., and studied at Baylor and Yale Universities. Described by the Washington Post as “uncommonly creative,” Red’s extensive body of [...]
Free Lunchtime Chamber Music concerts Apr. 17, May 8
The Yale School of Music will present the next Lunchtime Chamber Music concerts of the year on April 17 and May 8, 2013. Both concerts take place on Wednesdays at 12:30 pm. The midday concerts in this series feature a variety of chamber ensembles, each composed of musicians undertaking graduate study at the Yale School of Music. Faculty [...]
May 7 concert presents winners of chamber music competition
Concert features music my Stucky, Poulenc, Schubert, and Bartók The Yale School of Music presents the winners of the annual Chamber Music Competition in a showcase concert on Tuesday, May 7 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall. The concert is the last event of the 2012–2013 Oneppo Chamber Music Series. In announcing the competition [...]
Pianists Richard and John Contiguglia win Grand Prix du Disque
Duo pianists Richard and John Contiguglia (both ’59BA, ’61MM) are the winners of the 2012 Grand Prix du Disque, awarded last October by the Liszt Society of Hungary. The award-winning disc features Liszt’s Operatic Fantasies and Bartók’s Suite for Two Pianos. The brothers noted, “Early in our career as a professional duo-piano team we discovered duos of [...]
Patrick Jee ’03MM wins position with New York Philharmonic
Cellist Patrick Jee ’03MM won a position with the nation’s oldest orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, last November. Jee, who has been lauded as “spectacular” (American Record Guide) and a “virtuosic tour-de-force” (New York Concert Review), will also be a featured guest soloist in the Yale Cellos’ 30th anniversary performance on April 10, 2013. Patrick [...]
American Academy of Arts and Letters honors Yale composers
Awardees include Steven Burke ’94MM, Ted Hearne ’08MM, ’09MMA, and Stephen Feigenbaum ’12BA, ’13MM The American Academy of Arts and Letters, an honor society whose members members are elected as the highest formal recognition of artistic merit in the United States, have announced the sixteen recipients for this year’s awards in music. This year, three Yale School [...]
Two YSM pianists will compete in 2013 Cliburn Competition
This year’s Cliburn Competition will feature two YSM pianists, Sean Chen ’14AD and Lindsay Garritson ’10MM, ’11AD. The two are among the thirty young musicians selected through a jury screening who will compete May 24 through June 9, 2013 in Fort Worth, TX. Chen, 24, is a student of Hung-Kuan Chen at the School of Music. [...]
Associate Provost Masse named new music dean at Stetson
Thomas Gilmore Masse ’91MM, ’92AD, has been named the next Dean of the Stetson University School of Music. Masse will begin work in his position in June. Masse served as Deputy Dean of the Yale School of Music from 2005 to 2009 He is currently the Associate Provost for the Arts at Yale University. A clarinetist, [...]
Vista explores colorful range of chamber music Mar. 4
Concert features performances enhanced by commentary on the music The Yale School of Music presents Vista: A Fresh Look at Chamber Music on Monday, March 4th, 2013 at 8 pm. The Vista series features diverse student ensembles that have been selected and coached by faculty, and who offer insightful spoken commentary on the music that they [...]
Reflections on Bach brings together old and new in Feb. 27 concert
UPDATE: This concert was originally scheduled for February 13. It will take place Wednesday, February 27. Graduate composers collaborate with Yale Baroque Ensemble The Yale School of Music presents “Reflections on Bach,” a collaboration between the Yale Baroque Ensemble and graduate composers on Wednesday, February 27 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall. The concert will include new compositions as well as [...]
Students of Hung-Kuan Chen perform Jan. 28
The Yale School of Music presents a studio recital featuring piano students of Hung-Kuan Chen on Monday, January 28. The recital features four different pianists performing music from the Romantic era, including pieces by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, and Liszt. Pianist Lo-An Lin who won the gold medal in the 2012 San Antonio International Piano Competition, opens [...]
Pianist Lindsay Garritson takes third prize in Bosendorfer ASU piano competition
Lindsay Garritson ’10MM, ’11AD won the bronze medal at the Bosendorfer ASU Piano Competition this past Sunday, January 13. The competition took place at the ASU School of Music in Tempe, Arizona. Forty-two outstanding pianists from around the globe traveled to Tempe, Ariz. in January as the ASU School of Music in the Herberger Institute [...]
