Yale Cellos perform 30th anniversary concert Apr. 10
“Dazzlingly well-disciplined.” – New York Times The Yale School of Music celebrates the 30th anniversary of Yale Cellos in a concert on Wednesday, April 10. Founding director Aldo Parisot will lead the Grammy-nominated ensemble in music from the baroque to the present day, including pieces by Vivaldi, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Veracini, and others. Four virtuoso [...]
Bach Collegium Japan performs Bach motets March 3
On Sunday, March 3, conductor Masaaki Suzuki will lead the Bach Collegium Japan in a performance of motets by J.S. Bach. The concert will take place at 5 pm in Woolsey Hall (500 College Street). Tickets are $20, $10 for students, and all proceeds will be donated to ongoing earthquake relief efforts in Japan. Masaaki Suzuki, [...]
Tafelmusik brings House of Dreams to Yale Mar. 5
“One of the world’s top baroque orchestras.” – Gramophone The Yale School of Music presents Tafelmusik in the multimedia program House of Dreams on Tuesday, March 5 at 8 pm, in Morse Recital Hall. House of Dreams is a groundbreaking and world-renowned venture into the collaboration between visual and musical arts in the time of Purcell, Handel, [...]
Ole Akahoshi and Elizabeth Parisot perform together at Yale Feb. 20
Program includes music of Bach, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn The Yale School of Music presents a recital by Ole Akahoshi, cello, and Elizabeth Parisot, piano, on Wednesday, February 20 at 8 pm.The concert is part of the Faculty Artist Series, which presents members of the YSM faculty in programs that are free and open to the [...]
CANCELLED: Orion String Quartet and Windscape perform Bach’s “Art of the Fugue”
NOTE: This concert has been cancelled. We regret that we were unable to reschedule it. The Yale School of Music presents The Orion String Quartet & Windscape in a performance of Bach’s complete Art of the Fugue on Tuesday, February 12 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall. The Art of the Fugue, Bach’s study of [...]
Horowitz Piano Series closes season with Robert Blocker on March 21
“A pianist of purified technique and enormous sensitivity.” – La Provincia The Horowitz Piano Series at the Yale School of Music presents a recital by the pianist Robert Blocker, on Wednesday, March 21. Blocker, hailed as “a pianist of purified technique and enormous sensitivity,” will perform a diverse program of music from the Baroque to [...]
Boston Museum Trio performs French & Baroque music at the Collection Nov. 13
The Boston Museum Trio performs at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments on Sunday, November 13. The program will feature baroque music from French and German composers, including Rameau, Marais, Leclair, Buxtehude, and Bach. The concert will take place at 3 pm at the Collection (15 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven). The members of the Boston [...]
Bach Collegium Japan performance March 26 to benefit earthquake relief in Japan
Yale Institute of Sacred Music presents Bach Collegium Japan and music director Masaaki Suzuki in Bach’s Mass in B minor The renowned Bach Collegium Japan, conducted by its founder Masaaki Suzuki, will perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B minor at Woolsey Hall (500 College Street at Grove Street, New Haven) on Saturday, March 26 [...]
Markus Rathey receives Scheide Research Grant
Markus Rathey, an associate professor of music history at the School of Music and the Institute of Sacred Music as well as the Music Department, is the recipient of the William H. Scheide Research Grant for 2011. The William H. Scheide Research Grant, awarded once every two years to a member of the American Bach [...]
Ensemble Caprice to explore Bach and the Baroque Gypsies at the Collection of Musical Instruments
“Imaginative, even powerful, and the playing is top-flight.” – New York Times The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments will present the renowned Ensemble Caprice in the opening concert of the season on Sunday, October 10, 2010 at 3 pm. Under the artistic direction of flute and recorder virtuosi Matthias Maute and Sophie Larivière, Ensemble Caprice [...]
Benjamin Verdery, guitar, performs Bach and Albéniz alongside music of Yale faculty composers
Program includes works by Verdery and a world premiere by Ezra Laderman The celebrated guitarist Benjamin Verdery will perform a Faculty Artist Recital on Monday, January 25, 2010 at 8 pm in Sprague Hall (470 College Street, New Haven). The program opens with a transcription of Bach’s Cello Suite No. 6 in D major and [...]
Ole Akahoshi and Elizabeth Parisot offer a program of Bach, Brahms, Barber, and Schnittke
Cellist Ole Akahoshi and pianist Elizabeth Parisot will join together in a Faculty Artist Series recital on Monday, February 1, 2010 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (470 College Street, New Haven). The program will range from the baroque to the twentieth century, beginning with a Bach work and concluding with [...]
Florilegium opens the concert season at the Collection of Musical Instruments
The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments will open its 2009-10 concert season on Sunday, October 18 at 3 pm. The acclaimed British ensemble Florilegium will be represented by flutist Ashley Solomon and harpsichordist Terence Charlston. The program, entitled “Father, Son, and Godfather,” features music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and Georg Philipp [...]
Wei-Yi Yang performs Messiaen, Bach, and others on Horowitz Piano Series
The Yale School of Music presents a Horowitz Piano Series recital by pianist Wei-Yi Yang at 8:00 pm on Monday, March 30 in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall. Yang, acclaimed by the Dallas Morning News for his “dazzling” performance with the Yale Philharmonia in Messiaen’s Turangalila at Carnegie Hall last December, will play [...]
Pierre Réach performs Bach’s Goldberg Variations
Réach is an acclaimed interpreter of the demanding Variations Pierre Réach, the celebrated French pianist, will perform J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations on the Horowitz Piano Series on Tuesday, January 28 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall (470 College Street, corner of Wall St., New Haven). Réach has twice recorded [...]
