Two YSM pianists will compete in 2013 Cliburn Competition
This year’s Cliburn Competition will feature two YSM pianists, Sean Chen ’14AD and Lindsay Garritson ’10MM, ’11AD. The two are among the thirty young musicians selected through a jury screening who will compete May 24 through June 9, 2013 in Fort Worth, TX. Chen, 24, is a student of Hung-Kuan Chen at the School of Music. [...]
Piano student Lee Dionne takes third in Mottram Competition
Lee Dionne ’13MM placed third in the James Mottram International Piano Competition, held last week at the Northern Royal College of Music. The third biennial James Mottram International Piano Competition took place Monday, November 26 through Saturday, December 1, 2012. The competition offers an all-round learning experience for young pianists from all over the world, mixing opportunities to [...]
Marianna Prjevalskaya wins prizes at Panama International Piano Competition
Marianna Prjevalskaya ’07MM, ’10AD just won Second Prize and Audience Prize at the Panama International Piano Competition. First Prize was not awarded. As the winner of the competition, she performed Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54, with the National Symphony Orchestra after the award ceremony. The competition, which takes place every two years [...]
YSM pianists take home prizes in San Antonio International Piano Competition
Pianist Lo-An Lin, a student of Hung-Kuan Chen, took home the Gold Medal and the prize for best performance of a Baroque work at the 2012 San Antonio International Piano Competition this past weekend. Mei Rui ’06MM, ’07AD earned Special Recognition and the prize for best performance of a Classical work. As the Gold Medal winner, Lin [...]
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 [...]
Dashon Burton wins first prize in Oratorio Society of New York Vocal Competition
Dashon Burton ’11MM took first prize at the 2012 Oratorio Society of New York Vocal Competition yesterday. Two other Yale alumni also earned recognition: Jennifer Feinstein ’11MM took the the Frances MacEachron Award for Fourth Place, and Nacole Palmer ’00BA received both the Richard Westenburg Award and the Johannes Somary Award. As the recipient of [...]
Woolsey Competition to take place March 31
The School of Music is pleased to announce the details for the 2012 Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition. The finals of the competition will be held on Saturday, March 31. This year’s adjudicators will be Shmuel Ashkenasi (violin), Ayako Oshima (clarinet), and Benita Valente (soprano). Preliminary rounds will be held in individual studios and departments before [...]
Annie Rosen ’12MM wins Metropolitan Opera’s New England Regional Audition
Other Yale Opera singers take Third Prize, Encouragement Award Mezzo-soprano Annie Rosen ’12MM won first place in the Metropolitan Opera’s New England Regional Auditions, held yesterday in Boston. Rosen will compete on the Met stage in the National Council Auditions on March 18. Two other YSM singers also made strong showings in the New England [...]
Andy Akiho wins eighth blackbird’s composition contest
Eighth Blackbird announced last week that Andy Akiho ’11MM has won the new music ensemble’s inaugural composition competition. The final round of the competition was held at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Akiho was one of three finalists selected from an initial pool of 504 applicants. The finalists each received a cash prize and were [...]
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 [...]
YSM alumni take home prizes in Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition
YSM alumni were among the winners of the recent Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition. The annual event is open to instrumentalists, singers and chamber ensembles performing classical and non-traditional repertoire. Among this year’s winners were the Amphion String Quartet and the string quintet Sybarite5, two ensembles whose members include YSM alumni. All winners receive [...]
Christian Lane wins Canadian International Organ Competition
Christian Lane, a graduate of the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music, won the Canadian International Organ Competition (CIOC) this past weekend. The CIOC, which was held in Montreal, is the only international organ competition in the Americas in 2011. In the finals, Lane and the other four finalists each played a [...]
Two incoming pianists take home prizes in TSO Piano Competition
The first and second prizes in the 2011 Toronto Symphony Orchestra National Piano Competition went to two incoming students at the Yale School of Music. Charles Richard-Hamelin ’13MM won first prize, which includes the opportunity to perform a concerto with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in Roy Thomson Hall. He will play Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto [...]
Esther Park ’12AD wins second prize in Ima Hogg Competition
Esther Park ’12AD won the second prize in the Houston Symphony’s Ima Hogg Young Artists Competition, held June 2–4 at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. In addition to receiving the $2,500 Houston Symphony League Jerry Priest Award, Park will play Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Houston Symphony. Her performance will [...]
Kendra James ’12MM wins Shean Strings Competition
Violist Kendra James ’12MM won the first prize in the Shean Strings Competition in Edmonton. In addition to an award of $8,000, she wins the opportunity to perform as a soloist with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. She has previously soloed with the Brentwood-Westwood Symphony and the Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra. Her performance with the Edmonton [...]
YSM pianists win prizes in Montreal Competition
Lindsay Garritson ’10MM, ’11AD won Second Prize in the 2011 Montreal International Musical Competition. Incoming Artist Diploma student Henry Kramer won the third prize. The competition’s first prize went to Italian pianist Beatrice Rana. In the final round, Garritson played Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16. Kramer performed Ravel’s Concerto in G [...]
Zachary Wadsworth ’07MM named a winner in King James Bible Composition Awards
Composer Zachary Wadsworth ’07MM was named a winner in the King James Bible Composition Awards, held Tuesday, May 17 at the Temple Church in London, England. His composition for chorus and organ, “Out of the South Cometh the Whirlwind,” was selected from more than one hundred international entries in the category of works for experienced [...]
Kauder Competition for Voice on June 10 features four Yale participants
Winners’ Concert to take place in Sprague Hall June 11 The Hugo Kauder Society will present its Seventh Annual International Hugo Kauder Competition in New Haven, Connecticut on Friday, June 10, 2011. Among the eight singers (all under 35 years of age) that have been selected to perform in front of a live jury are [...]
Marianna Prjevalskaya wins Jaén Piano Competition
Marianna Prjevalskaya ’10AD has won the first prize at the 53rd Jaén International Piano Competition in Spain. The final round took place May 6, 2011 at the new Infanta Leonor Theatre of Jaén, with the City of Granada Orchestra directed by Stamatia Karampini. The jury, headed by the Spanish concert pianist Begoña Uriarte, included musicians [...]
Results of 2011 Woolsey Competition announced
The 2011 Woolsey Competition took place on Saturday, April 16, with twenty-two finalists from the Yale School of Music competing. The guest judges – violinist Sharon Yamada, hornist David Ohanian, and pianist André-Michel Schub – selected three winners: Soo Ryun Baek Bruch: Scottish Fantasy in E-flat major for violin and orchestra Lindsay Garritson Brahms: Piano Concerto [...]
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 [...]
Woolsey Hall Competition April 16 showcases promising graduate musicians
Singers and instrumentalists selected in preliminary rounds to compete The Yale School of Music presents the annual Woolsey Hall Competition on Saturday, April 16, 2011. Despite its name, the competition will take place in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall, 470 College Street, New Haven). The competition, which runs from 9:00 am to 4:00 [...]
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 [...]
YSM student & alumni composers and Project 440
Several Yale School of Music composers will participate in WXQR’s groundbreaking Project 440, where composers from all over the country will compete for a commission from the world-famous Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in New York City. Sixty candidates were posted in the month of June, including several YSM alumni and students: Andy Akiho ’11MM, Timothy Andres [...]
