Fifth Annual Yale/New Haven Young Artists Solo Competitions May 23, 29, 30
The Music in Schools Initiative is pleased to announce the fifth annual Yale/New Haven Young Artists Solo Competitions. This year’s competitions will take place on three nights: Wednesday, May 23 for 4th–6th grade students; Tuesday, May 29 for 7th–8th grade; and Wednesday, May 30 for 9th–12th grade. All competitions will take place in Morse Recital [...]
Sweet Honey in the Rock performs in Woolsey Hall Jan. 15
The internationally renowned a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock will perform a free concert as part of Yale’s annual campus-wide celebration of the national Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. The concert will take place Sunday, January 15, at 3 pm in Woolsey Hall (corner of College and Grove Streets). The concert is free [...]
Gig List Relaunches
The School of Music is pleased to announce the official re-launch of the gig list and community lessons list. Visit: music.yale.edu/community/hire Members of the community: Have you been wondering how to hire a string quartet for your wedding, or where you might find a piano teacher or trombone instructor? To make an inquiry about hiring [...]
Michael Yaffe receives national award
National Guild Service Award recognizes exceptional long-term achievement in community arts education The Yale School of Music is pleased to announce that Associate Dean Michael Yaffe was honored with the National Guild Service Award this past Saturday, November 11. Conferred by the National Guild for Community Arts Education, the award recognizes individuals who have given [...]
Associate Dean Michael Yaffe to receive National Guild Service Award
Michael Yaffe will be honored by the National Guild for Community Arts Education this Saturday, November 11. Yaffe, the associate dean of the School of Music, will receive the National Guild Service Award at the annual awards luncheon at the Conference for Community Arts Education. The National Guild Service Award is offered for outstanding achievement [...]
Morses visit the Morse Academy
Enid and Lester Morse ’51 today visited the School of Music to attend a concert by students in the Morse Summer Music Academy. After performances by a clarinet ensemble, a saxophone quintet, and a solo flutist, the audience heard something new: Academy student Jose Meza had written a piece dedicated to the Morses, to thank [...]
Morse Summer Music Academy begins second season
Today was the first day of school for fifty-one young musicians in the Morse Summer Music Academy. Now in its second year, the Morse Academy at the Yale School of Music offers intensive music instruction for students in grades 5 through 11 in the New Haven Public Schools. The 2011 Morse Academy runs from July [...]
Music in Schools Initiative continues to thrive
New Haven All-City Band makes its debut on May, plus other events The Music in Schools Initiative, a project bringing together the Yale School of Music and the New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) continues to thrive in New Haven. Upcoming events include the first-ever performance by the new Yale/NHPS All-City Band, a performance by the [...]
Ellington Jazz Series presents the second “Homegrown on Common Ground ” Concert November 12
New Haven’s Ben Allison, bassist and composer for NPR’s “On the Media,” is featured with his band; St. Luke’s Steel Band and Andy Akiho return After the success of the first “Homegrown on Common Ground” concert last April, the Ellington Jazz Series at the Yale School of Music revisits the theme of having musicians from [...]
Home Grown Stars: Yale’s Ellington Program honors performing arts schools in a free concert October 1
Groups from Neighborhood Music School, Co-Op High, and ECA will perform The Yale School of Music and the Duke Ellington Fellowship will celebrate the contributions of three New Haven performing arts schools on Friday, October 1 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall, 470 College Street, New Haven). The jazz concert, [...]
New Morse Summer Academy gets underway at the School of Music
Musical talents of 42 New Haven students nurtured through free summer music academy Cultivating the musical talents of New Haven students is the focus of a new Yale School of Music program making its debut this summer July 26 through August 30. The Morse Summer Music Academy at YSM is designed to nurture creativity and [...]
Wall Street Journal spotlights Musicorps
When Arthur Bloom ’86BA, ’93MM met with a veteran at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 2007, he didn’t know that the meeting would lead to a big idea. As the Wall Street Journal writes: When Mr. Bloom learned the veteran had been a drummer, he suggested the man resume playing, despite having lost one [...]
First Annual JC Music Solo Competition
In collaboration with the Yale School of Music, Music in Schools Initiative On Saturday, May 22, fifteen finalists from across Connecticut will compete in the first JC Music Solo Competition, a join venture of the Music in Schools Initiative of the Yale School of Music and JC Music (a music store and school in Meriden).The [...]
Tina Lee Hadari ’04MM to discuss chamber music as public service
Chamber Music as Public Service: A String Quartet as a Vehicle For Social Change Tina Lee Hadari, a graduate of the School of Music and the founder of Music Haven, will be the featured guest speaker at the next Community Engagement Think Tank on Saturday, February 6. Music Haven is a nonprofit organization that anchors [...]
John Miller ’07MM and students featured on WTNH-8
John Miller ’07MM, manager of community programs at the Yale School of Music, and students from the John C. Daniels School in New Haven appeared on a Channel 8 news segment recently. Miller described the program, which began only two years ago and already involves almost 50 students. The program kicked off when the school [...]
Thomas C. Duffy & Stephanie Hubbard honored for “Rap for Justice”
On October 23, 2009, Thomas C. Duffy, director of Yale Bands, and Stephanie Hubbard, business manager of the bands, received special recognition from the United States Attorney’s Office, District of Connecticut for their role in presenting “Rap for Justice” on May 6. The “Rap for Justice” concert attracted around 1,000 high school students from seven [...]
YSM launches new Community Engagement Think Tanks
The Yale School of Music is pleased to launch its new Community Engagement Think Tanks, in which visiting lecturers will bring their expertise to small-group conversations with graduate students in music. The Community Engagement Think Tanks are designed to focus on broad topics led by recognized leaders in the field of classical music. Each Think [...]
Music in Schools program featured on Channel 3 WFSB “Cool Schools” segment
Music and Film program featuring Yale composers and performers working with students at John C. Daniels School and Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School The Music and Film program, part of Yale’s Music in Schools initiative sponsored by the Yale School of Music and the Yale Class of ’57 Outreach Program, was featured recently on [...]
Yale/New Haven Young Artist Solo Competition
The Yale School of Music is pleased to announce the second annual Yale/New Haven Young Artists Solo Competition. The competition will be held on Saturday, May 9th, 2009, beginning at 11:00 am, at Yale University’s Sprague Memorial Hall (470 College Street, New Haven). Each New Haven K-8 school may choose up to three students to [...]
Yale harmonizes music and literacy in local schools
Nora Wessel Yale Daily News It is Tuesday morning at John C. Daniels Magnet School. Class is in session and the building is quiet, save for faint music echoing down the sunshine-flooded halls. Inside the music auditorium, more than a dozen sixth-grade students perch in front of music stands, flutes, clarinets and trumpets in hand. [...]
Share the Music comes to city schools
(originally published in the Yale Daily News)
Frances Sawyer Yale Daily News When Austin Kase ’11 was a high school student in New Jersey, he noticed the dearth of musical instruments at public schools. To fill the void, he launched Share the Music, a program that accepts donated instruments and places them in music classrooms. Recently, Share the Music became an official [...]
Music program hits high notes
By Elizabeth Benton New Haven Register NEW HAVEN — Two weeks ago, fifth-grader Serena Santiago secured a coveted spot in the John C. Daniels School band. With interest high and instruments limited, Santiago told band director John Miller she’d be dedicated to whatever he had for her. The pitch worked. He handed her a trombone. [...]
alumniVentures to “advance the cause of music”
Yale School of Music supports alumni projects with grants totaling $100,000 In June, 2008, Dean Robert Blocker of the Yale School of Music announced alumniVentures, a bold and innovative program that will provide $100,000 in grants to the School’s alumni. In the first year of what Dean Blocker promised to be an annual program, alumniVentures [...]
