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 [...]
Guitarist Benjamin Verdery performs music for guitar with koto, theremin, and shakuhachi
The Faculty Artist Series at the Yale School of Music presents Standing in Our Own Light, a concert of introspective music for guitar, koto, theremin, and shakuhachi, on Monday, February 18 at 8 pm. Faculty guitarist Benjamin Verdery will be joined by koto virtuoso Yumi Korosawa and by Elizabeth Brown on shakuhachi and theremin. All three performers [...]
Chamber music concert May 2 features the guitar
Concert includes two pieces by Yale composers The Yale School of Music presents a concert featuring Guitar Chamber Music: guitar ensembles as well as guitar alongside other instruments. Celebrated guitarist Benjamin Verdery, the chair of the guitar department at the School of Music, is the director of the concert. The program takes place at 8 [...]
Guitar Extravaganza announces lectures + panel discussions
This year’s Yale Guitar Extravaganza, The Guitar: Today and Tomorrow, is pleased to announce its lineup of guest speakers. (Concert performers for this year’s Extravaganza are listed here.) The Seventh Yale Guitar Extravaganza will take place Saturday, March 24, 2012. A full schedule is available here. The day’s first panel discussion will address The Future [...]
Seventh Yale Guitar Extravaganza announces lineup
March 24 full of concerts, master classes, workshops, & more The Yale School of Music is pleased to announce the line-up for the seventh semiannual Guitar Extravaganza. The event, which will take place on Saturday, March 24, 2012, is directed by celebrated guitarist Benjamin Verdery, the longstanding chair of the guitar department at the Yale [...]
Classical and Electric: Guitar Chamber Music Dec. 14
Concert pairs classical and electric guitars with violin, voice, and more The Yale School of Music will present a Guitar Chamber Music concert on Wednesday, December 14, 2011. Directed by faculty member Benjamin Verdery (pictured at left), the concert will showcase diverse chamber ensembles that include guitar. The event takes place at 8 pm in [...]
Guitarist Benjamin Verdery plays music by Yale composers Nov. 29
The Yale School of Music presents classical guitarist Benjamin Verdery in a Faculty Artist Series concert on Tuesday, November 29. Verdery will perform his own music as well as that of other Yale composers: Martin Bresnick, Christopher Theofanidis, Ezra Laderman, David Lang, and Jack Vees. The concert will feature multiple premieres, including the world premiere [...]
Concert features Terry Riley’s In C and more May 4
The Yale School of Music will present a Guitar Chamber Music concert on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (470 College St., New Haven). The concert will feature a performance of Terry Riley’s mesmerizing 1964 work In C with musicians from across the School of Music, including [...]
YSM guitarists perform at Norfolk’s Infinity Hall
Guitarists from the Yale School of Music will perform a Guitar Extravaganza at Infinity Hall on Sunday, April 3, at 1 pm. Infinity is located in Norfolk, in northwest Connecticut, across the road from the campus of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. The guitarists, all students of Benjamin Verdery, will perform music from across the [...]
Benjamin Verdery and other Yale guitarists play guitar music by Yale composers, including five world premieres
A free preview of Carnegie Hall concert the following night, the program features solo, guitar ensemble, and chamber works by Yale School of Music composers The Yale School of Music presents Yale Guitar Music Today on Monday, November 8 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (470 College Street). The concert, directed [...]
“If you arrange it, they will listen”: a talk by Benjamin Verdery
New York City Classical Guitar Society presents the talk on July 1 at 7 pm Our monthly event for July will be feature Benjamin Verdery in a talk entitled “If You Arrange It, They Will Listen!” Ben has arranged music from Mozart to Hendrix for the guitar, and in this talk he will share his [...]
U.S. premiere of Verdery’s Give, dedicated to Ted Kennedy, featured in May 5 Guitar Chamber Music concert
The Yale School of Music will present a concert of Guitar Chamber Music on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall. The concert will showcase graduate performers in music for multiple guitars as well as guitar with other instruments. Benjamin Verdery, the chair of the guitar department at [...]
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 [...]
Premiere of Give, a new work by Benjamin Verdery
Benjamin Verdery’s newest work, Give, premiered October 29 at the Hochschule for Music and Theatre (HMT) in Rostock, Germany. Verdery himself, a faculty member of the Yale School of Music, performed a broad range of music, and several of his compositions were performed by students from the HMT. Verdery composed Give for Thumas Offermann and [...]
Yale Guitar Extravaganza VI:
From Baroque to Electric
Featured recital by acclaimed guitarist Eliot Fisk The Yale School of Music presents the Guitar Extravaganza VI on Saturday, March 7 in Sprague Memorial Hall and Leigh Hall. Under the artistic direction of Benjamin Verdery, renowned guitarist and longstanding chair of the guitar department at the Yale School of Music, the Extravaganza brings together guitarists [...]
