Tuesday, February 12: All concerts and classes CANCELLED
All Yale classes and events have been cancelled for Tuesday, February 12. This includes all Yale School of Music events, concerts, and classes. The performance of Bach’s Art of the Fugue, featuring the Orion String Quartet and Windscape, will not take place. For everyone’s safety, the School’s buildings will remain closed. The Yale Emergency Management website [...]
Cancellations for Monday, February 11
ANNOUNCEMENT As New Haven continues to dig out from nearly three feet of snow, Yale University has announced that all classes are cancelled for Monday, February 11. All Yale School of Music events are cancelled for Monday, and the School’s buildings will be closed. The Yale Emergency Management website is posting ongoing updates about the winter [...]
Alumni garner faculty appointments
Thomas Novak ’91MM promoted to Provost of New England Conservatory; appointments also for Matthew Barnson ’12DMA, Katherine Lee ’02AD, Doug Lindsey ’10MM, Naomi Seidman ’04MM Thomas Novak ’91MM was promoted to Provost at the New England Conservatory. Having served as Dean of the College since 2007, Novak will continue to oversee Conservatory faculty, curriculum, admissions, [...]
Melvin Chen returns to Yale
Melvin Chen has been appointed Associate Professor of Piano (adjunct) at the Yale School of Music. In announcing this faculty position, Dean Robert Blocker has also appointed Chen to serve as Deputy Dean of the School. Blocker commented: “Melvin Chen’s longstanding relationship with Yale College and the School of Music, his international profile as an [...]
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 [...]
Tokyo String Quartet looks to future
Dean Robert Blocker announced this morning that violist Kazuhide Isomura and second violinist Kikuei Ikeda will retire from the Tokyo String Quartet in June, 2013. One of the world’s most distinguished chamber music ensembles, the Tokyo String Quartet was founded in 1969 and has been the quartet-in-residence at the Yale School of Music and the [...]
Yale Opera announces casting for DON GIOVANNI
Yale Opera is pleased to announce the casts for its new production of Mozart’s masterpiece Don Giovanni, to be performed at New Haven’s historic Shubert Theater in February. The original production features stage direction by Sam Helfrich, set design by Andrew Holland, costume design by Kaye Voyce, and lighting design by William Warfel. Giuseppe Grazioli, [...]
2010-11 alumniVentures winners announced
Dean Robert Blocker recently announced the 2010 alumniVentures awards, the grants that the Yale School of Music offers to its alumni for projects that follow the simple criterion: to advance the cause of music. In thanking the alumni committee that recommended the recipients, the Dean acknowledged their work and the identification of outstanding projects that [...]
Composer Augusta Read Thomas ’88MM appointed University Professor at U of Chicago
Renowned composer Augusta Read Thomas ’88MM has been appointed as University Professor of Composition in the Department of Music and the College at the University of Chicago, according to a recent announcement from the university. Thomas studied composition with Jacob Druckman at the Yale School of Music and is currently a composer-in-residence with the New [...]
Vivian Perlis announces retirement from Oral History of American Music project
Libby Van Cleve to succeed Perlis as director of OHAM Vivian Perlis, the founder and Director of the Oral History of American Music (OHAM) project at Yale, has announced that she will step down as Director on June 30, 2010. Perlis, a historian in American music, specializes in twentieth-century composers and is known for her [...]
Winners of the 2010 Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition Announced
Winners will perform with the Yale Philharmonia next season The Yale School of Music is pleased to announce the results of the 2010 Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition. The competition took place on Saturday, April 10, and featured instrumentalists and vocalists selected by the faculty through departmental preliminaries. The three guest judges for this year’s competition [...]
Yale Institute for Music Theatre announces 2010 summer workshop selections
The Yale Institute for Music Theatre (Mark Brokaw, artistic director; Beth Morrison, producer) announces the original music theatre works that will receive two-week workshops in New Haven, June 13-27: THE DAUGHTERS by Shaina Taub and STUCK ELEVATOR by Byron Au Yong and Aaron Jafferis. About the 2010 Selections THE DAUGHTERS Music and libretto by Shaina [...]
Yale Opera announces casting for The Marriage of Figaro
January 20, 2010 | Yale Opera is pleased to announce the casts for its upcoming production of Mozart’s masterpiece The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro), to be performed at New Haven’s historic Shubert Theater in February. The production features stage direction by Vera Lúcia Calábria; Christoph Campestrini will conduct the Yale Philharomonia. Performances [...]
Marianna Prjevalskaya ’10AD wins Jose Roca International Piano Competition
At the Jose Roca International Piano Competition in Valencia, Spain last November, Marianna Prjevalskaya won a first prize by a unanimous decision of the jury. Prjevalskaya is currently a student of Boris Berman in the artist diploma program at the Yale School of Music. She is a laureate of many international piano competitions, such as [...]
Recording of David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion nominated for Grammy
David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion has already earned him a Pulitzer Prize in Music. Now a recording of the piece on Harmonia Mundi has been nominated for a 2010 Grammy Award. Nominated in the category of Best Small Ensemble Performance, the recording features Ars Nova Copenhagen and the Theatre of Voices, conducted by [...]
Grammy nominations for Yale alumni
Four Yale alumni – Marin Alsop, Sharon Isbin, Maureen Nelson, and Richard Belcher – received nominations for this year’s Grammy Awards. Alsop, a graduate of Yale College, is the artistic director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the first woman to hold such a position at a major American orchestra. The other three are graduates of [...]
Yale Percussion Group wins PAS Competition
The Percussive Arts Society (PAS) has announced the winning ensembles from the PAS International Percussion Ensemble Competition and the inaugural World Music Percussion Ensemble Competition. The Yale Percussion Group, which is directed by faculty member Robert van Sice, is among the select group of winners. As a result of their success, the YPG is scheduled [...]
Ted Hearne ’09MMA wins Gaudeamus Prize
At the final concert of the International Gaudeamus Music Week 2009, which took place in Amsterdam September 7-12, the Gaudeamus Prize was awarded to the American composer Ted Hearne (b. 1982). The award of 4,550 Euros is intended as a commission for a new work which will be performed at the 2010 International Gaudeamus Music [...]
New biography of oboist Robert Bloom
Robert Bloom (1908-1994), one of the foremost oboists of his time and a former member of the Yale School of Music faculty, is the subject of a new biography. Robert Bloom: The Story of a Working Musician brings together essays, correspondence, reviews, anecdotes and more. It also incorporates Bloom’s book on pedagogy dictated in 1975-1976: [...]
Block Party for new Yale students Sunday, Sep. 13
This event welcomes new Yale students and is free and open to the community. The festival brings the community together to share food, music, and fun activities for all ages. Try the New Haven Parks and Recreation’s climbing wall, meet local safety officials, tour a New Haven fire engine, groove to music by Ultra Radio, [...]
Jeremy Grall ’99MM appointed to faculty at University of Alabama
Guitarist Jeremy Grall ’99MM was recently appointed Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he will teach courses in guitar and music history. This spring, Grall graduated with the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Memphis. Dr. Grall’s dissertation, titled An Analytical Edition of Giovanni Kapsberger’s Partite [...]
Stephen Adams ’59 awarded Yale Medal
Among the recipients of this year’s Yale Medal is Stephen Adams ’59, a member of the School of Music’s Board of Visitors and a donor whose generosity has transformed the School. The Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) has announced five recipients of the Yale Medal in 2009. In addition to Mr. Adams, the recipients are [...]
Paul Hawkshaw appointed deputy dean
Dean Robert Blocker announced today the appointment of Paul Hawkshaw as Deputy Dean of the School of Music. Professor Hawkshaw has served the School and University with distinction for twenty-five years, a tenure that has included eleven years as Associate Dean and two years as Acting Dean. He will continue his responsibilities as Director of [...]
