Professor David Lang receives 2013 Doris Duke Award
Awards recognize twenty vital American contemporary artists On April 29, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation recognized twenty of America’s most vital artists working in the fields of contemporary dance, jazz, and theatre. David Lang ’89DMA, a faculty member of the School of Music, is among the 2013 recipients. Lang will receive an unrestricted, multi-year grant, [...]
Alumna Caroline Shaw wins 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music
Caroline Shaw ’07MM has been named the winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music. She receives the prestigious award for her “Partita for 8 Voices,” written for the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth and released on New Amsterdam Records. The award citation calls “Partita for 8 Voices” a “highly polished and inventive a cappella work [...]
David Lang to receive Hans Christian Andersen Prize
Composer David Lang ’89DMA is among those selected to receive this year’s Hans Christian Andersen Prize. He was selected for his composition The Little Match Girl Passion (2007), the piece for which he also won the Pulitzer Prize in Music. The recording of the work (by Theatre of Voices) received a Grammy Award in 2010. [...]
Dec. 20 concert features music of composer Douglas Fisk
Doctor of Musical Arts recital includes music for string quartet, wind quintet, and more The Yale School of Music presents a Doctor of Musical Arts recital featuring the music of Douglas Fisk on Thursday, December 20, 2012. The program, which features a variety of Fisk’s solo, vocal, and chamber works, begins at 8 pm at [...]
New Music for Orchestra features works by student composers Dec. 6
The Yale School of Music presents the annual New Music for Orchestra concert on Thursday, December 6, 2012. The program features the music of five up-and-coming composers performed by the Yale Philharmonia, conducted by Shinik Hahm. The concert presents five new pieces for chamber orchestra: “Guess That Shape” by Stephen Feigenbaum; “Arion” by William Gardiner; “Sinfonia [...]
New Music New Haven hosts renowned composer George Crumb Nov. 15
“One of the most distinctive compositional voices to emerge in the second half of the twentieth century.” –AllMusic The Yale School of Music presents a New Music New Haven concert featuring the music of George Crumb on Thursday, November 15, 2012. One of today’s most-performed composers, Crumb is the winner of a Pulitzer Prize, a Grammy Award, [...]
Aaron Jay Kernis Wins 2012 Nemmers Prize
Composer Aaron Jay Kernis, a member of the Yale School of Music faculty, has been selected as the 2012 winner of the Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition. The announcement came today from Dean Toni-Marie Montgomery of the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, which awards the prize. In connection with the Nemmers [...]
Kevin Puts ’96MM wins 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music
Andrew Norman ’09AD, also a YSM graduate, among Pulitzer finalists Yale School of Music graduate Kevin Puts ’96MM is the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his opera Silent Night, it was announced today. The Pulitzer Prize in Music is awarded to a “distinguished musical composition by an American that has had [...]
Alum Robert Aldridge appointed director of music department at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers
Grammy Award-winning composer to direct Music Department at Mason Gross School of the Arts Composer and YSM alum Robert Livingston Aldridge ’00DMA has been named the director of the music department of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Aldridge recently won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for the [...]
Feb. 13 concert features music of Martin Bresnick
“Bresnick is a major voice.” –Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times The Faculty Artist Series at the Yale School of Music presents a concert of music by the award-winning composer Martin Bresnick on Monday, February 13. Featuring performances by pianist Robert Blocker, the acclaimed piano-cello duo TwoSense, and alumni of the School of Music, the [...]
BMOP names Andrew Norman ’09AD as new composer in residence
Andrew Norman ’09AD has been named the new Composer-in-Residence for the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP). BMOP is dedicated to commissioning, performing, and recording new orchestral music. It was one of five orchestras nationwide selected for an extended Music Alive residency, a program of Meet the Composer and the American Symphony Orchestra League. Andrew Norman [...]
Garth Neustadter ’12MM wins Emmy Award
Original score to PBS documentary was recorded at Yale with student musicians Composer Garth Neustadter ’12MM has won an Emmy Award for his score for the PBS documentary John Muir in the New World, an episode of American Masters. The score was recorded at Yale with members of the Yale Philharmonia, the Yale Symphony Orchestra, [...]
Garth Neustadter ’12MM nominated for Emmy Award
Original score to PBS documentary garners an Emmy nomination for composition student The Yale School of Music is pleased to announce that composer Garth Neustadter ’12MM has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for his score for the PBS documentary John Muir in the New World. The score was recorded at Yale with members [...]
Four YSM composers among award recipients from American Academy of Arts and Letters
The American Academy of Arts and Letters recently announced the recipients of this year’s awards in music. Among the fifteen recipients of the five different awards were four current and past students of the Yale School of Music. Harmony Ives, the widow of Charles Ives, bequeathed to the Academy the royalties of Charles Ives’ music, [...]
Arts Journal profiles faculty composer Christopher Theofanidis
Mind the Gap at Arts Journal talked to composer Christopher Theofanidis, a professor of composition at the School of Music and the artistic director of the New Music New Haven concert series. Molly Sheridan writes, “Christopher Theofanidis talked about letting go of his concern for solid ground in his creative process, opening up his musical [...]
Music for dance and film by faculty composer David Lang
Works and Process at the Guggenheim presented two different versions of the same music by faculty composer David Lang. Up-and-coming choreographers Jessica Lang and Pontus Lidberg have each made dances to his pieces forced march and the so-called laws of nature, for the dancers of the company Morphoses. After watching rehearsals, Lang said, “I was [...]
Andrew Norman ’09AD among four winners of Orpheus Project 440
Last week, WQXR announced that Andrew Norman ’09AD, Clint Needham, Alex Mincek, and Cynthia Wong were selected as the winners of Orpheus Project 440. Each composer will write a work to be premiered at Carnegie Hall by Orpheus in the 2011-12 season. The project began with 60 composer candidates and went through several rounds. Orpheus [...]
Premiere of chamber opera by composition student Hannah Lash
Hannah Lash, a first-year Artist Diploma student in composition at the Yale School of music, saw the premiere of her 40-minute chamber opera Blood Rose this past weekend at the at the Park Avenue Christian Church in New York. Lash describes her opera as “a chilling interpretation of the legend ‘Beauty and the Beast’” that [...]
Yale in New York opens season at (Le) Poisson Rouge
“The Yale School of Music has established a formidable presence with its Yale in New York series at Carnegie Hall these last three seasons, mainly by presenting inventive programs of mostly new or unusual works.” — Allan Kozinn, The New York Times, 2/10/10 On Monday, October 11, 2010 at 7:30 pm, the adventurous Yale in [...]
Composer Robinson McClellan featured in DMA recital of vocal works and music for bagpipes September 30
The Yale School of Music presents the Doctor of Musical Arts recital of composer Robinson McClellan on Thursday, September 30 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (470 College Street, New Haven). The concert will feature solo and ensemble works composed between 2007 and 2010. McClellan has a special interest in Scottish [...]
Four YSM composers advance in Project440
The first round of composers to advance in Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s Project 440 was announced live on New York Public Radio yesterday morning. Four Yale School of Music composers were among those advancing to the next round: Timothy Andres, Judd Greenstein, Polina Nazaykinskaya, and Andrew Norman. Preben Antonsen, an undergraduate in Yale College, also advanced. [...]
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 [...]
Composer David Kurtz ’80MM wins two Emmy Awards
When the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the winners of the 37th annual Emmy® Awards, Yale School of Music alumnus David Kurtz added two to his collection. Kurtz won for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series for his work on The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS). As [...]
Derrick Wang ’08MM wins BMI Student Composer Award for short opera
Derrick Wang has been named a winner in the 58th Annual BMI Student Composer Awards, which “recognize superior creative talent” in music composition. Wang’s BMI award-winning work is the ten-minute, one-act opera ISH, scored for two tenors, barintone, bass-baritone, and keyboard. Eleven young classical composers, ages 13 to 26, were named winners in the 58th [...]
