Eleven alumniVentures awards announced
Dean Robert Blocker has announced the 2012 alumniVentures awards. Eleven grants were awarded, ranging from $2,000 to $7,500 and totaling $51,000. In thanking the alumni committee that recommended the recipients, the Dean acknowledges their work and the identification of outstanding projects that truly advance the cause of music. Vincent Oneppo MM ’73, Chair of the [...]
Willie Ruff receives Sanford Medal
Willie Ruff ’53BM, ’54MM received the Sanford Medal, the School of Music’s highest honor, this past Monday, May 20. Dean Robert Blocker presented the medal at the School’s Commencement ceremonies in Sprague Hall. The award honors Ruff’s contributions to the Yale School of Music and to the field of music. A musician and scholar of wide-ranging [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
David Lang named Musical America’s Composer of the Year
Musical America Announces 2013 Awards; Gustavo Dudamel Named Musician of the Year David Lang, Wu Man, Joyce DiDonato, and José Antonio Abreu recognized as Composer, Instrumentalist, Vocalist, and Educator of the Year, respectively Musical America, now in its third century as an indispensable resource for the performing arts, today announced the winners of the annual Musical America [...]
Yang Jiao takes second prize in Li Delun Conducting Competition
Yang Jiao ’12MM was awarded the silver medal in the first Li Delun National Conducting Competition, held June 18–23 in Qingdao, China. Jing Huan took home the third prize; no first prize was awarded. The Li Delun National Conducting Competition was organized by the Ministry of Culture, the China Symphony Development Foundation, and the local [...]
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 [...]
Aaron Jay Kernis Wins 2012 Nemmers Prize
Composer Aaron Jay Kernis, a member of the Yale School of Music faculty, has been selected as the 2012 winner of the Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition. The announcement came today from Dean Toni-Marie Montgomery of the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, which awards the prize. In connection with the Nemmers [...]
Reinis Zarins '09CERT wins Great Latvian Music Award 2011
Pianist Reinis Zarins ’09CERT was recently awarded the Great Latvian Music Award 2011 in the category of Outstanding Interpretation. The award is the highest state recognition in the field of classical music in Latvia. Zarins received the award for three interpretations: a solo recital (Bach+Messiaen and Kenins+Schumann), a concerto (Mozart’s Concerto in G major, K. [...]
YSM composers among American Academy of Arts & Letters awardees
The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced recently the eighteen recipients of this year’s awards in music, which total $190,000. The winners were selected by a committee of Academy members. The awards will be presented at the Academy’s annual Ceremonial in May. Candidates for music awards are nominated by the 250 members of the [...]
Ryan Johnstone ’05 MM named Outstanding Young Bandmaster of the Year at TMEA
At the Texas Music Educators Association Convention earlier this month, Ryan Johnstone ’05 MM was named the Phi Beta Mu Outstanding Young Bandmaster for 2012. The announcement was made on February 9; presentation ceremonies will be held in conjunction with the annual Convention of the Texas Bandmasters Association meeting in San Antonio in July. Ryan [...]
Former YSM composers among Grammy winners
Awards for alumnus Robert Aldridge, former faculty member Joseph Schwantner Robert Aldridge ’97MMA, ’00DMA won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony last Sunday in Los Angeles. Aldridge is a professor at the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University. Along with librettist Herschel [...]
Yale College Class of 1957 receives award
The Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) recently awarded its Outstanding Class Volunteer Engagement and Leadership Award to the Yale College Class of 1957. In its citation, AYA praised the Class “for conceiving and funding the Class of ’57 Music Endowment to enable Yale to share its resources in support of music education for urban public [...]
Michael Yaffe receives national award
National Guild Service Award recognizes exceptional long-term achievement in community arts education The Yale School of Music is pleased to announce that Associate Dean Michael Yaffe was honored with the National Guild Service Award this past Saturday, November 11. Conferred by the National Guild for Community Arts Education, the award recognizes individuals who have given [...]
Associate Dean Michael Yaffe to receive National Guild Service Award
Michael Yaffe will be honored by the National Guild for Community Arts Education this Saturday, November 11. Yaffe, the associate dean of the School of Music, will receive the National Guild Service Award at the annual awards luncheon at the Conference for Community Arts Education. The National Guild Service Award is offered for outstanding achievement [...]
Solomon Liang and In Hwa Lee win Alexander & Buono String Competition
Cellist In Hwa Lee ’06MM, ’07AD and violinist Solomon Liang ’12MM were selected as two of the first prize winners in the Alexander & Buono International String Competition. They will be featured as soloists in the winner’s concert on Sunday, November, 20, 2011 at Carnegie Hall. The other first-prize winners in the college/professional division were [...]
Jasper String Quartet receives Cleveland Quartet Award
Chamber Music America (CMA) announced today that the Jasper String Quartet has been selected to receive the Cleveland Quartet Award. The Jasper Quartet was the graduate quartet-in-residence at the Yale School of Music from 2008 to 2010. Established in 1995, the biennial Cleveland Quartet Award honors and promotes a rising young string quartet whose artistry [...]
Christian Lane wins Canadian International Organ Competition
Christian Lane, a graduate of the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music, won the Canadian International Organ Competition (CIOC) this past weekend. The CIOC, which was held in Montreal, is the only international organ competition in the Americas in 2011. In the finals, Lane and the other four finalists each played a [...]
