Ettore Causa and Boris Berman perform Feb. 19th
Duos for piano and viola by Schumann, Brahms, Hindemith, and more The Yale School of Music’s Faculty Artist Series presents violist Ettore Causa and pianist Boris Berman in a concert on Tuesday, February 19 at 8 pm. The duo will perform music by Schumann, Brahms, Hindemith, and Franck. The concert will open with two movements [...]
Clarinetist Charles Neidich, pianist Robert Levin perform Schumann and Brahms Dec. 2 & 3
The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments presents the eminent duo of clarinetist Charles Neidich ’75BA and pianist Robert Levin on December 2 and 3. Using historical instruments, the performances will feature music of Brahms and Schumann as the composers themselves might have heard them. Levin will be performing on a piano built by Johann Baptist [...]
Hung-Kuan Chen performs Brahms, Schumann & more Nov. 28
“A virtuoso… with an enormous palette of tone colors.” ––Boston Globe New Haven, CT | The Horowitz Piano Series at the Yale School of Music presents a recital by the pianist Hung-Kuan Chen on Wednesday, November 28. Chen, a faculty member hailed by the Boston Globe as “a deeply probing, imaginative player with an enormous palette of tone [...]
Ole Akahoshi & Elizabeth Parisot perform May 4
Faculty Artist Series presents its last concert of the season The Yale School of Music presents the cellist Ole Akahoshi and the pianist Elizabeth Parisot in concert on Friday, May 4. The concert, which takes place at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall, will mark the close of the 2011–2012 season for the Faculty Artist [...]
Guest conductor Jahja Ling ’85DMA leads the Yale Philharmonia April 20
“Ling was an unerring guide and source of inspiration… Ling and the orchestra made it a magnetic experience.” –Cleveland Plain Dealer The Yale School of Music presents the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale under renowned guest conductor (and alumnus) Jahja Ling on Friday, April 20. Harpist Kristan Toczko will be a featured soloist. The program will [...]
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 [...]
“Brilliant” pianist Yefim Bronfman performs virtuoso program at Yale Feb. 28
“Stunning command, myriad colorings, incisive articulation and subtlety…” –New York Times The Horowitz Piano Series at the Yale School of Music presents the pianist Yefim Bronfman in recital on Tuesday, February 28. The “brilliant soloist” (New York Sun), hailed for both “technical brawn and a glittery grace” (Los Angeles Times), will perform a powerhouse program [...]
Faculty artists perform Brahms chamber music Jan. 31
Concert features Boris Berman, Ettore Causa, Clive Greensmith, & more The Yale School of Music presents four prestigious performers in a Faculty Artist Series concert on Tuesday, January 31. Pianist Boris Berman, violinist Julie Eskar, violist Ettore Causa, and cellist Clive Greensmith (pictured at left, best known as part of the Tokyo String Quartet) will [...]
Yale Philharmonia performs with Shinik Hahm, Lindsay Garritson Nov. 17
The Yale School of Music presents the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale in a concert featuring Romantic music on Thursday, November 17, 2011. Shinik Hahm will conduct the orchestra, and Lindsay Garritson will be the piano soloist. The concert takes place at 8 pm in Woolsey Hall (500 College Street, corner of Grove Street). Mendelssohn’s Overture [...]
Wendy Sharp performs music of Beethoven, Bielawa, and more
Nov. 6 concert also features pianist Joel Wizansky The Yale School of Music’s Faculty Artist Series presents Wendy Sharp, violin, and Joel Wizansky, piano in concert on Sunday, November 6th at 4 pm. The program brings together music related to words in various ways, from a suite based on Shakespeare to a piece incorporating narration. [...]
Pianist Wing-Chong Kam plays Mozart, Brahms, Debussy, Chopin Oct. 20
The Yale School of Music presents the Hong Kong-born pianist Wing-Chong Kam in a Doctor of Musical Arts recital on Thursday, October 20, 2011. Kam will perform music of Mozart, Brahms, Chopin, and Debussy. His recital will take place at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall, located in Sprague Hall at 470 College Street (corner [...]
Boris Berman opens Horowitz Piano Series Oct. 5
Program highlights Schumann and Brahms Internationally renowned concert pianist Boris Berman, artistic director of the Horowitz Piano Series at Yale, opens the 2011–2012 season with a solo recital on Wednesday, October 5 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall. The recital will focus on music of German Romantic composers: Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms. Berman, praised [...]
Results of 2011 Woolsey Competition announced
The 2011 Woolsey Competition took place on Saturday, April 16, with twenty-two finalists from the Yale School of Music competing. The guest judges – violinist Sharon Yamada, hornist David Ohanian, and pianist André-Michel Schub – selected three winners: Soo Ryun Baek Bruch: Scottish Fantasy in E-flat major for violin and orchestra Lindsay Garritson Brahms: Piano Concerto [...]
RESCHEDULED: Pianist Boris Berman and violist Ettore Causa play Brahms and Schumann Mar. 26
Program features music written for wind instruments, adapted for viola The Yale School of Music presents a Faculty Artist Recital by Ettore Causa, viola, and Boris Berman, piano, on Saturday, March 26, at 5 pm in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall at 470 College Street, New Haven). The recital was originally scheduled for [...]
Miró Quartet plays with Julie Landsman March 29
Quartets by Haydn and Brahms, plus Gunther Schuller’s Horn Quintet “Explosive vigor and technical finesse.” – New York Times The Chamber Music Society at Yale presents the Miró String Quartet on Tuesday, March 29 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall at 470 College Street, New Haven). The quartet, which has [...]
Ole Akahoshi and Elizabeth Parisot play cello sonatas of Beethoven and Schubert Jan. 31
Clarinetist David Shifrin joins for the Brahms Clarinet Trio The Yale School of Music presents a Faculty Artist Recital by Ole Akahoshi, cello, and Elizabeth Parisot, piano, on Monday, January 31, at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall at 470 College Street, New Haven). The performers, who are both members of [...]
Violinist Wendy Sharp and friends perform music spanning three centuries
Performance features a world premiere by John Halle The Yale School of Music will present violinist Wendy Sharp and colleagues in a Faculty Artist Recital on Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 4 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (470 College Street, New Haven). Sharp will be joined by violist Marka Gustavsson, cellist Mimi [...]
Shinik Hahm leads the Yale Philharmonia in two works of Richard Strauss and the Fourth Symphony of Brahms on Thursday, November 18
Woolsey Competition winner Carl Oswald, oboe, to play Strauss Concerto The Yale School of Music presents the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale and conductor-in-residence Shinik Hahm on Thursday, November 18 at 8 pm in Woolsey Hall (corner of College and Grove Streets, New Haven). The program features the music of Richard Strauss and Johannes Brahms. Strauss’s [...]
Vista program offers a fresh look at chamber music by Shostakovich, Piazzolla, and Brahms
The Yale School of Music presents Vista: A Fresh Look at Chamber Music on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 4 pm in Sprague Hall. Part of the School of Music’s renowned chamber music program, Vista features diverse student ensembles that have been selected and coached by faculty. Each ensemble not only performs but also offers [...]
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 [...]
Yale Philharmonia to perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 4
Concert opens with Brahms, including the Variations on a Theme of Haydn Music director Shinik Hahm will lead the Yale Philharmonia in a program of Brahms and Mahler on Friday, October 23 at 8 pm. The free concert will take place in historic Woolsey Hall, where nearly 100 years ago (in February of 1910) Mahler [...]
Chamber Music Society presents competition winners
The Chamber Music Society at Yale presents the winning ensembles of the Yale School of Music’s 2009 Chamber Music Competition in a performance on Tuesday, April 28, at 8:00 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (470 College Street, New Haven). This showcase for the School’s renowned chamber music program will feature the trio [...]
Malcolm Bilson inaugurates new fortepiano at YSM
Recital will feature music of Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms Malcolm Bilson, acclaimed for his pioneering work in the period-instrument movement, will give the inaugural recital on the Yale School of Music’s new fortepiano on Tuesday, February 24 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall. The program, which is part of [...]
