Patrick Jee ’03MM wins position with New York Philharmonic
Cellist Patrick Jee ’03MM won a position with the nation’s oldest orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, last November. Jee, who has been lauded as “spectacular” (American Record Guide) and a “virtuosic tour-de-force” (New York Concert Review), will also be a featured guest soloist in the Yale Cellos’ 30th anniversary performance on April 10, 2013. Patrick [...]
Baroque cellist Phoebe Carrai gives master class Nov. 29
The distinguished Baroque cellist Phoebe Carrai will give a master class on Thursday, November 29, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. The master class, which is free and open to the public, is generously sponsored by the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments. The event takes place in Leigh Hall (435 College Street), Room 402. Phoebe Carrai [...]
Master class with cellist Tanya Tomkins April 21
The distinguished cellist Tanya Tomkins will give an open master class on Saturday, April 21, from 1:00 to 4:45 pm. The class takes place in Parker Hall, Room 408 in Leigh Hall (435 College Street) and is sponsored by the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments. A member of the faculty of the American Bach Soloists [...]
Clive Greensmith & Wei-Yi Yang perform Mendelssohn duets Apr. 19
Featuring the historical Erard piano in the Collection of Musical Instruments The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments presents cellist Clive Greensmith and pianist Wei-Yi Yang in a concert featuring music of Mendelssohn on Thursday, April 19, 2012. The program will take place at 8 pm at the Collection of Musical Instruments (15 Hillhouse Avenue, New [...]
The Yale Cellos perform old favorites and new arrangements April 11
“Dazzlingly well-disciplined.” – New York Times The Yale School of Music presents the Grammy-nominated Yale Cellos in their popular annual concert on Wednesday, April 11 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall at 470 College Street, New Haven). Aldo Parisot will lead the ensemble that he founded in a diverse program [...]
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 [...]
Cellist Jacques Wood gives a lecture-recital on historical performance and Beethoven May 5
Pianist Ryo Yanagitani joins Wood in performing sonatas on historical and modern instruments The Yale School of Music will present a lecture-recital by cellist Jacques Lee Wood on Thursday, May 5, 2011 at 7 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (470 College St., New Haven). Wood, a graduate of the School of Music, [...]
Rhonda Rider ’80MM is artist-in-residence at Grand Canyon National Park
Cellist Rhonda Rider ’80MM has been named an Artist-in-Residence at the Grand Canyon National Park 2010-2011. She has commissioned eleven composers to write works for solo cello inspired by aspects of the canyon. While in residence Rider will present two performances, one for the public and one for local school children. The public performance will [...]
Faculty Artist Series presents Kyung Hak Yu, Elizabeth Parisot, and Ole Akahoshi March 26
Violin sonatas by Mozart and Franck, plus the Mendelssohn Trio in D minor The Yale School of Music presents a Faculty Artist Recital featuring violinist Kyung Hak Yu, pianist Elizabeth Parisot, and cellist Ole Akahoshi on Friday, March 26, 2010 at 8 pm in Sprague Hall. The longstanding duo of Yu and Parisot will open [...]
Cellist Dmitri Atapine presents February 11 recital
DMA recital features Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Laderman The Yale School of Music presents a Doctor of Musical Arts recital featuring cellist Dmitri Atapine on Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall. Atapine has garnered praise for his a “warm vividly coloristic touch on the cello and seemingly effortless command of any [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Yo-Yo Ma premieres cello concerto by Angel Lam ’10AD
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of music director Robert Spano, will present the New York premiere of Angel Lam’s Awakening from a Disappearing Garden on Saturday, November 7, at Carnegie Hall. The piece, a concerto for cello and orchestra, was commissioned by Carnegie Hall and was first performed in [...]
Cellist Dmitri Atapine earns awards, faculty appointment
Dmitri Atapine ’05MMA, ’06AD has been appointed to the faculty of the University of Nevada, Reno. Beginning in September, Atapine will be Assistant Professor of Cello. In the past year he has also been awarded the Top Prize and the Yamaha Corporation Special Prize at the Spanish National Cello Competition. The First Prize winner at [...]
Aldo Parisot and the Grammy-nominated Yale Cellos perform music for cello ensemble
The Yale School of music celebrates Professor Aldo Parisot’s fifty years on the faculty with a concert featuring the Yale Cellos on Monday, April 20 at 8:00 p.m. in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (470 College St, New Haven). In his astonishing career, Aldo Parisot has been a star soloist, renowned chamber player, and [...]
“Madcap, Red Priest, and Angel” offers Baroque program at the Collection of Musical Instruments
With John Holloway, violin; Jaap ter Linden, cello; Lars Ulrik Mortensen, harpsichord The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments presents “Madcap, Red Priest, and Angel,” the concluding concert in the 2008-09 Collection series, on Sunday, February 22 at 3:00 pm. The program offers a selection of works by Leclair, Corelli, Vivaldi, and Veracini, performed by the [...]
Wendy Sharp performs chamber music for strings
Guests include cellist Scott Kluksdahl, violists Marka Gustavsson and Carol Rodland The Yale School of Music presents a Faculty Artist Series recital by violinist Wendy Sharp on Saturday, February 29 at 8:00 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall. The program opens with Dohnányi’s Serenade in C major for String Trio, Op. 10 [...]
