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. [...]
American Academy of Arts and Letters honors Yale composers
Awardees include Steven Burke ’94MM, Ted Hearne ’08MM, ’09MMA, and Stephen Feigenbaum ’12BA, ’13MM The American Academy of Arts and Letters, an honor society whose members members are elected as the highest formal recognition of artistic merit in the United States, have announced the sixteen recipients for this year’s awards in music. This year, three Yale School [...]
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 [...]
YSM composers among American Academy of Arts & Letters awardees
The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced recently the eighteen recipients of this year’s awards in music, which total $190,000. The winners were selected by a committee of Academy members. The awards will be presented at the Academy’s annual Ceremonial in May. Candidates for music awards are nominated by the 250 members of the [...]
January 26th concert features Matthew Barnson’s three violin sonatas
“His work is fresh and arises from a distinct personality.” – San Francisco Classical Voice The Yale School of Music presents a concert featuring the music of Matthew Barnson on Thursday, January 26, 2012. The concert, which is Barnson’s Doctor of Musical Arts recital, will feature his three sonatas for violin and piano, performed by [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Yoshi Onishi ’07MM, ’08AD wins Gaudeamus Prize
Composition alumnus Yoshiaki Onishi ’07MM, ’08AD won the 2011 Gaudeamus Prize, it was announced yesterday. The prestigious prize was awarded after the closing concert of the Gaudeamus Music Week at Museum Speelklok in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The international jury unanimously selected Onishi, born 1981 in Japan, from the thirteen nominees. The prize was awarded by [...]
Hermelindo Ruiz ’12MM wins prize in Curso de Música de Santiago de Compostela
Hermelindo Ruiz ’12MM was awarded the Andrés Segovia–José Miguel Ruiz Morales Prize at the Curso de Música de Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Ruiz was selected and invited by the organizers to take part in a two-week course entitled “Sinfonismo y Música actual” (Symphonism and Actual Music) with composer Anton Garcia Abril and orchestral conductor Maximino [...]
Jacob Cooper ’10MMA wins Carlsbad Music Festival Composers Competition
The Carlsbad Music Festival, in partnership with ArtPower@UCSD, announced the selection of Jacob Cooper as the 2011 winner of the annual Carlsbad Music Festival Composers Competition. Cooper Cooper was selected from a pool of 134 highly-qualified applicants from around the world. The selection panel included the four members of the Calder Quartet and Festival director [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Music and Book Writing Program Performs June 1 & 2
Educational Collaboration with the Yale School of Music, Greater Bridgeport Symphony, and the Bridgeport Public Schools In the Music in Schools Initiative’s engaging Music and Book Writing Program, student storytellers and illustrators come together to create their own tales. A Yale School of Music composer work with each group of students to create a soundtrack [...]
Aaron Jay Kernis is DePauw University’s Composer-in-Residence for 2011
The DePauw University School of Music announced that composer Aaron Jay Kernis, a member of the Yale School of Music faculty, will begin a residency under the auspices of the “Music of the 2st Century” series on Wednesday, March 2. During his residency, Kernis will participate in classes, sit in on rehearsals, and spend time [...]
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 [...]
