Tokyo String Quartet premieres Jeffrey Ryan’s “Inspirare” Sep. 20
Quartet celebrates 35 years in residence at Yale School of Music, opens season for chamber music series The chamber music series at the Yale School of Music opens its 2011–2012 season with the Tokyo String Quartet on Tuesday, September 20 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall. The concert will feature the U.S. premiere of [...]
Linden Quartet concert at the Kennedy Center Apr. 27 will stream live
The Linden String Quartet – currently the graduate quartet-in-residence at the Yale School of Music – will perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC on Wednesday, April 27 at 6 pm. The concert will stream live on the Kennedy Center’s website. The program, called Light and Dark, features Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet in F [...]
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 [...]
Last Lunchtime Chamber Music concert of the season in Sprague Hall May 4
The Yale School of Music will present the last Lunchtime Chamber Music concert of the season on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 12:30 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (470 College St., New Haven). This free event features a colorful variety of ensembles, including excerpts from piano quintets by Brahms and Dvorak, as [...]
Concert features winning performances from annual chamber music competition
The Chamber Music Society at the Yale School of Music presents its annual concert of competition winners on Tuesday, May 3 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall at 470 College Street, New Haven). This year’s winning performers form a diverse group in terms of both instrumentation and repertoire. The concert [...]
Linden String Quartet plays Schumann & Ravel April 29
The Linden String Quartet will give a recital called Light and Dark on Friday, April 29, at 4 pm at the Whitney Humanities Center (located at 53 Wall Street, New Haven). The Linden Quartet has won such prestigious competitions as the Concert Artists Guild, Fischoff, and Coleman, and it shared first prize in the Hugo [...]
Noble Piano Trio wins two prizes at Plowman Chamber Music Competition
The Noble Piano Trio, whose members are YSM students Michael Noble, piano; Yeseul Ann, violin; and Alvin Wong, cello, has just won the Edward & Judith Chmielewski Award and the Hugo Vianello Audience Prize at the 2011 Plowman Chamber Music Competition. The Noble Piano Trio was newly formed in January 2011 at Yale when three [...]
Faculty artist duo of Kyung Yu and Elizabeth Parisot performs March 25
Program will feature Beethoven’s “Kreutzer” Sonata, plus music of Handel, Saint-Saëns Mar. 10, 2011 | The Yale School of Music presents a Faculty Artist Recital with violinist Kyung Yu and pianist Elizabeth Parisot on Friday, March 25, at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall at 470 College Street, New Haven). Yu [...]
Violinist Sarita Kwok and pianist Jian Liu perform March 31
Diverse duos by Beethoven, Bresnick, Messiaen, and Prokofiev The Yale School of Music presents a Faculty Artist Recital with violinist Sarita Kwok and pianist Jian Liu on Thursday, March 31, at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall at 470 College Street, New Haven). Both Kwok and Liu are graduates of the [...]
Lunchtime Chamber Music in Sprague Hall March 30
The Yale School of Music will present a Lunchtime Chamber Music concert on Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 12:30 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (470 College St., New Haven). This free event features a colorful variety of ensembles composed of graduate musicians who have come from around the world to study at [...]
Duo Atapine-Park Wins Second Prize at Vittorio Gui Competition
On February 19th, 2011 cellist Dmitri Atapine (’10 DMA, ’06 AD, ’05 MMA) and pianist Adela Hyeyeon Park (’05 MM, ’06 AD) received the Second Prize at the prestigious Premio Vittorio Gui International Chamber Music Competition in Florence, Italy. The event is a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions. The Duo Atapine-Park [...]
Vista concert offers a fresh look at chamber music
Students present commentary on the music alongside live performances The Yale School of Music presents Vista: A Fresh Look at Chamber Music on Sunday, February 20 at 4 pm in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall at 470 College Street, New Haven). Part of the School of Music’s renowned chamber music program, Vista features [...]
Kavafian-Schub-Shifrin Trio plays trios by Mozart, Schumann, Milhaud, and Stravinsky
“No praise can be too high… for the three hyper-virtuosos.” – Boston Globe The Chamber Music Society at the Yale School of Music presents the Kavafian-Schub-Shifrin Trio on Tuesday, March 1 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall at 470 College Street, New Haven). All acclaimed soloists in their own right, [...]
Linden Quartet, graduate quartet-in-residence, performs March 2
“Remarkable depth of technique and brilliantly nuanced, sumptuous tonality… delivered with a palpable, infectious joy.” – Seen and Heard The Yale School of Music presents the Linden String Quartet in recital on Wednesday, March 2 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (470 College Street, New Haven). The quartet has won such [...]
Tokyo String Quartet performs with violist Ettore Causa Feb. 8
Program includes Mozart and Szymanowski quartets, plus Mendelssohn quintet with violist Ettore Causa The Chamber Music Society at the Yale School of Music presents the Tokyo String Quartet on Tuesday, February 8 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall at 470 College Street, New Haven). The concert will open with Mozart’s [...]
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 [...]
Star piano quartet OPUS ONE gives East Coast premiere of a Lowell Liebermann piece, plus music of Mozart and Schumann
“The technical mastery of a solo recital with with the exuberance of a jam session.” – Post Gazette The Chamber Music Society at Yale presents OPUS ONE in a recital on Tuesday, December 7, 2010 at 8 pm in Sprague Hall (470 College Street, New Haven). The distinguished piano quartet has garnered widespread acclaim since [...]
Faculty Artists perform the two piano trios of Franz Schubert November 2
The Yale School of Music presents three celebrated musicians – Peter Frankl, Martin Beaver, and Clive Greensmith – in an evening of Schubert’s piano trios on Tuesday, November 2 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall (Sprague Hall, 470 College Street, New Haven). Violinist Martin Beaver and cellist Clive Greensmith are both members of the [...]
Tokyo String Quartet opens 2010-11 Chamber Music Society season Sep. 28 with Schubert, Webern, and Mozart
Guest artist Ettore Causa appears in Mozart’s Viola Quintet in C major The Yale School of Music presents the Tokyo String Quartet in the first concert of the Chamber Music Society season on Tuesday, September 28 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall, 470 College Street, New Haven). The Tokyo String [...]
Jasper Quartet to appear at Caramoor
Yale’s 2008-10 Fellowship Quartet-in-Residence and Caramoor’s 2009-10 Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence will perform on August 5 Caramoor International Music Festival’s chamber music programming for the 2010 summer season includes three renowned string quartets that will present a wide range of repertoire – from Haydn’s String Quartet No. 60 to the world premiere of a work [...]
Yale quartets share first prize in 2010 Hugo Kauder Competition
The Amphion String Quartet and the Linden String Quartet were jointly awarded first place in the 2010 Hugo Kauder Competition, held at Sprague Hall on Friday, June 11. The members of the Amphion String Quartet are Yale School of Music alumni Katie Hyun, violin; Mihai Marica, cello; and David Southorn, violin; as well as violist [...]
Birthday concert from violinist Wendy Sharp features new works and Mendelssohn’s Octet
Premieres of music by Timo Andres ’09MM, Rick Bassett, and Gerald Cohen on June 13 program How does a prominent violinist celebrate her fiftieth birthday? With a concert, of course, and also by having three composers write new pieces just for the occasion. And to top it off, by playing one of the great chamber [...]
Albany Records releases disc of string quartets by Ezra Laderman
Performed by the Alianza String Quartet, former fellowship quartet-in-residence Released at the end of 2009, the disc is the ninth volume in Albany Records’ series The Music of Ezra Laderman. Laderman’s twelfth (and, according to the composer, last) quartet was written for the Alianza. The members of the quartet that appear on the recording are [...]
