Arthur Haas performs keyboard music by Rameau and others May 8
Recital also includes music by Corelli, Geoffroy, and Alessandro Scarlatti American harpsichordist Arthur Haas, renowned worldwide for his performances of French baroque and contemporary music, will perform at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments on Wednesday, May 8 at 5:30 pm. Haas is a member of the Yale School of Music faculty. Titled “Oh! The Things You [...]
Members of Yale Baroque Ensemble perform Mar. 27
Violinist Edson Scheid, cellist Soo Jin Chung perform Baroque and Classical selections The Yale School of Music presents a recital by Edson Scheid, baroque violin, and Soo Jin Chung, baroque cello, on Wednesday, March 27 at 5:30 pm. The concert will include music from the Baroque and Classical periods, with selections by J.S. Bach, Arcangelo [...]
Quicksilver performs at Collection of Musical Instruments Jan. 27th
“Fresh, technically assured, and rewarding performances.” –Boston Globe The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments presents the baroque ensemble Quicksilver on Sunday, January 27. The newly formed group will present a program called Fantasticus: the extravagant and virtuosic chamber music of 17th-century Germany. The stylus fantasticus was a hallmark of the 17th-century German avant-garde that emphasizes [...]
Concerts & master classes with clarinetist Charles Neidich, pianist Robert Levin
The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments presents clarinetist Charles Neidich and pianist Robert Levin in a series of performances, master classes, and workshops next week. The duo will perform a program featuring works by Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Clara Schumann (1819–1896), and Johannes Brahms (1833–1897). Those performances take place Sunday, December 2 at 3 pm and Monday, December 3 at [...]
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 [...]
Maccari and Pugliese offer guitar concert & class at Collection Nov. 11
The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments presents the classical guitar duo of Claudio Maccari and Paolo Pugliese in a special event on Sunday, November 11 at 7 pm. The duo will offer Guitar Music of the Nineteenth Century: Interpretation and Performance, a concert and master class. The class will feature works for guitar by Sor and Giuliani prepared by students in the Yale [...]
Members of Yale Baroque Ensemble perform Nov. 13
Recital features Holly Piccoli, violin & David Fung, keyboards The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments will present a recital by two members of the Yale Baroque Ensemble on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 5:30 pm. Holly Piccoli, violin, and David Fung, piano and harpsichord, will perform music from the Baroque and Classical periods. The program includes [...]
Yves Henry performs on historical pianos at the Collection Oct. 28
“Smooth virtuosity… a real ability to stage-manage musical line.” –The New York Times The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments presents the New Haven debut of French pianist Yves Henry on Sunday, October 28. The recital will explore the musical colors of pieces by Chopin and Debussy on two of the Collection’s French pianos. Mr. Henry [...]
Yale Collection of Musical Instruments opens concert season with “Crossing the Rhine” Sep. 23
“Extraordinary elegance.” –The Berkshire Review The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments opens its 2012–2013 concert season on Sunday, September 23 with “Crossing the Rhine,” a concert of 18th-century music from France and Germany featuring the acclaimed trio of Wieland Kuijken, viola da gamba; Eva Legêne, recorder; and Arthur Haas, harpsichord. Reviewing a performance by the [...]
Yale Baroque Ensemble performs at the Collection Apr. 18
From Galant to Classical: chamber music of Couperin, C.P.E. Bach, and Haydn The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments presents the Yale Baroque Ensemble, its ensemble in residence, in a concert on Wednesday, April 18, 2012. The concert, which will feature chamber music of Couperin, C.P.E. Bach, and Haydn, will take place at 8 pm at [...]
La Morra performs madrigals and more Feb. 26 at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments
“In a word: delightful.” –Goldberg Magazine The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments presents the acclaimed ensemble La Morra in Lacrime di Leo: A Concert for Pope Leo X. In this program, La Morra imagines that one day, Pope Leo calls upon his musicians to play the best music popular in Italy at the time. The [...]
New exhibit explores local 19th-century woodwind makers
A new exhibit called Whirring Lathes, Dulcet Tones: Woodwind Making in Early 19th-Century Connecticut and New York will open on Wednesday, January 25, 2012, at Yale’s Collection of Musical Instruments. Twenty-six woodwind instruments are on display, including flageolets, fifes, a piccolo, flutes, clarinets, and a bassoon. The most unusual instrument featured in the exhibit is [...]
London Haydn Quartet performs with clarinetist Eric Hoeprich at the Collection Feb. 4 & 5
Concerts feature Haydn string quartets, Mozart Clarinet Quintet The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments presents the acclaimed London Haydn Quartet and clarinetist Eric Hoeprich in concerts featuring Haydn string quartets and Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet. The program will be presented twice: Saturday, February 4 at 8 pm and Sunday, February 5 at 3 pm. Both performances [...]
Yale Baroque Ensemble performs at Collection Nov. 15
Members of the Yale Baroque Ensemble will give a baroque chamber recital on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 5 pm at the Collection of Musical Instruments. Tess Isaac, baroque violin; and Colin Meinecke, baroque viola; will be assisted by Avi Stein, harpsichord; and Hannah Collins, baroque cello. The recital will feature music of Castello, Biber, Corelli, [...]
Yale Collection of Musical Instruments joins live streaming
Masaaki Suzuki’s harpsichord recital at the Collection of Musical Instruments on Tuesday, April 26 will stream live at music.yale.edu/media. This is the first time that the School of Music will live-stream from the Collection. Suzuki performs regularly as a conductor as well as a keyboardist. In this recital, he will play music from France, England, [...]
Dorothy and Nicholas Renouf play piano duets at the Collection May 1
Performance features the Collection’s Erard grand piano from 1883 The Yale School of Music presents the piano duo of Dorothy and Nicholas Renouf in a performance on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 3 pm at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments (15 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven). The husband-and-wife duo will play music for piano four [...]
Masaaki Suzuki gives a solo harpsichord recital at the Collection April 26
“Astonishingly beautiful, even glittering, harpsichord playing and sound.” —BBC Music Magazine The Yale School of Music presents a solo harpsichord recital by the conductor and keyboardist Masaaki Suzuki on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 5 pm at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments (15 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven). Since joining the Yale faculty in 2009, [...]
Bach Collegium Japan gives master classes
On Saturday, 26 March 2011, members of the Bach Collegium Japan presented a series of midday master classes at three different venues on campus. The ensemble was at Yale to perform Bach’s Mass in B minor in Woolsey Hall that evening. Several of its members took the time to work with musicians from the Yale [...]
Paolo Pandolfo and Thomas Boysen present concert and master classes at Collection of Musical Instruments
By Susan Thompson, curator The Italian viola da gamba virtuoso Paolo Pandolfo was joined by the masterful Norwegian lutenist and guitarist Thomas C. Boysen in a concert at the Collection of Musical Instruments on Sunday, 27 February 2011. Their program, which was entitled La Viole Luthée, featured “musical conversations” in the Renaissance style (an improvised [...]
William Purvis appointed the Director of the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments
The Yale School of Music is pleased to announce that William Purvis has been appointed as the Director of the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments. Purvis, a horn player, conductor, and educator, has been serving as the Interim Director of the Collection since 2008. After several years as a faculty artist at the Norfolk Chamber [...]
Johanna Novom and Avi Stein perform at Collection of Musical Instruments Feb. 24
The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments presents a recital with baroque violinist Johanna Novom and harpsichordist Avi Stein on Thursday, February 24 at 5:30 pm at the Collection (15 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven). The program will feature sonatas of Arcangelo Corelli, Heinrich von Biber, Domenico Scarlatti, and J.S. Bach, as well as shorter pieces by [...]
La Viole Luthée: viola da gamba virtuoso Paolo Pandolfo performs at Collection Feb. 27
“One of the most brilliant and poetic of the instrument’s current exponents.” – Gramophone The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments will present the renowned viola da gamba player Paolo Pandolfo and the Norwegian lutenist Thomas Boysen on Sunday, February 27, 2011 at 3 pm. The program, called La Viole Luthée, features viol-lute conversations from Renaissance [...]
Smithsonian Chamber Players perform at Collection of Musical Instruments January 23
Program features Mozart and Beethoven quintets for piano and winds The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments will present the Smithsonian Chamber Players in their Collection debut concert on Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 3 pm. The players – Marc Schachman, oboe; Eric Hoeprich, clarinet; Andrew Schwartz, bassoon; and Kenneth Slowik, fortepiano – will be joined [...]
Harpsichordist Adam Pearl to make his New Haven debut at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments November 7
Pearl will play the newly restored single-manual harpsichord from 1640, Antwerp The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments will present the renowned harpsichordist Adam Pearl in the opening concert of the season on Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 3 pm. Pearl, who has been praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer for his “virtuosity and daringly original tempo [...]
