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 Atlanta Symphony Hall on October 15 and 16, 2009. This is Lam’s third commission from Carnegie Hall, which describes her as “a young composer whose work sounds both Chinese and Western, contemporary but also timeless.” (more…)
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 the 2004 Carlos Prieto International Cello Competition (Mexico), Mr. Atapine has since been recognized as an exciting cellist and accomplished chamber musician. (more…)
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 perhaps the most beloved cello teacher of his time. The concert will showcase the famed Yale Cellos, founded by Parisot in 1983, whose 20 or so members belong to the select group of international young artists invited to study with him at Yale. Joining the ensemble are pianist Elizabeth Parisot and soprano Hyunah Yu. (more…)
Yale Philharmonia to play Mahler’s epic Fifth Symphony
The Yale School of Music presents the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale in a spectacular program of Mahler, Britten, and Saint-Saëns in Woolsey Hall at 8:00 pm on Saturday, April 4, 2009.
The great conductor Herbert von Karajan said once that when you hear Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, “you forget that time has passed. A great performance of the Fifth is a transforming experience. The fantastic finale almost forces you to hold your breath.” The Philharmonia, under the direction of Shinik Hahm, performs this riveting work in the resonant, historic space of Woolsey Hall.
After the symphony, which was written in 1901-02, the program continues into the twentieth century with Benjamin Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from his opera Peter Grimes. Written during World War II, shortly after the composer’s return to his native Britain, the evocative Interludes will be conducted by Farkhad Khudiyev. The program will conclude with Saint-Saëns’ youthful, energetic Cello Concerto, a work that the Philharmonia performed with great success on its tour of Asia last July. In this performance, the soloist will be Ashley Bathgate, a winner of the 2008 Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition.
Admission to the concert is free. For more information, visit the Yale School of Music website, music.yale.edu, or call 203 432-4158.
“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 trio of John Holloway, violin; Jaap ter Linden, cello; and Lars Ulrik Mortensen, harpsichord.
Tickets are $20, $15 for Yale staff and senior citizens, and $10 for students with ID. Tickets are available at music.yale.edu, at the School of Music Box Office in the lobby of Sprague Hall, or by calling 203 432-4158. After noon on the Friday before the concert, any tickets not yet sold may be reserved by calling the Collection at 203 432-0825.
John Holloway has been a pioneer of the Early Music movement in Britain. In 1975 he founded the ensemble L’Ecole d’Orphée. He won a Gramophone Award in 1991 for his recording of Biber’s Mystery Sonatas. Holloway has been Professor of Baroque Violin at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and Guest Professor at the Schola Cantorum in Basel. He is on the faculty of the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden, Germany, and is Music Director of New Trinity Baroque, a period instrument ensemble and orchestra based in Atlanta.
Jaap ter Linden, who performs on both viola da gamba and Baroque cello, was co-founder of Musica da Camera. He has been the principal cellist of Musica Antiqua Köln, The English Concert, and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. He founded and directs the Mozart Akademie and is a guest director and soloist with the Arion Ensemble. He has led the San Francisco Philharmonia Baroque, Portland Baroque, and Amsterdam Bachsoloists. He has made award-winning recordings for Harmonia Mundi, Archiv, ECM, Deutsche Grammophon, and others, and has conducted operas at the Städtische Bühne Münster and the Royal Conservatory of the Hague.
After completing studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen, Danish harpsichordist Lars Ulrik Mortensen studied with Trevor Pinnock. He has been a member of London Baroque and Collegium Musicum 90. He has recorded extensively on the Archiv, Harmonia Mundi, and Da Capo labels, and his recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations on Kontrapunkt won the Diapason d’Or. As a conductor, Mr. Mortensen frequently leads the Royal Opera orchestra in Copenhagen and the European Union Baroque Orchestra. He is Artistic Director of Concerto Copenhagen and has taught at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich.
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 and continues with the Duo (1925) for Violin and Cello by the Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff. Culminating the evening will be Dvořák’s String Quintet No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 97, dubbed the “American” quintet because it was written during the summer that the composer spent in Iowa. Sharp, who is director of chamber music and a member of the violin faculty at Yale, will be joined by guest artists Marka Gustavsson, viola; Scott Kluksdahl, cello; Carol Rodland, viola; and Lauren Basney, violin.
Admission to the recital is free. For more information, visit the Yale School of Music website, music.yale.edu, or call 203 432-4158.
Violinist Wendy Sharp performs frequently as a recitalist and a chamber musician. A sought-after teacher and chamber music coach, she is on the faculties of the Yale School of Music and California Summer Music. As the first violinist of the Franciscan String Quartet, she toured internationally, and was honored with many awards including first prize in the Banff International String Quartet Competition and top prizes at the Evian International String Quartet Competition. She attended Yale University, graduating summa cum laude with Distinction in Music and received her MM degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Ms. Sharp has served on the faculties of Mannes College, Dartmouth, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and participated in the Aspen, Tanglewood, Chamber Music West, Norfolk, and Music Academy of the West festivals. Currently Director of Chamber Music and a member of the violin faculty, Ms. Sharp has been a part of the YSM faculty since 1995.
