Yale Baroque Ensemble performs experimental music of the 17th century
Concert features Yale’s new baroque instruments
The Yale Baroque Ensemble presents Stylus Fantasticus, a concert of experimental music from the seventeenth century on Tuesday, November 10 at 8 pm in Sprague Hall. The evening’s program reawakens an era when composers were experimenting with formal invention and creating the first sonatas of Western music. This repertoire ranges from the avant-garde music of the early part of the seventeenth century to the contrapuntal ingenuity of Henry Purcell at the end of the century. With works for one, two, and three violins with basso continuo, the program will include music by composers such as Gabrieli, Castello, Uccellini, Biber, Schmelzer, Purcell, and others. Robert Mealy is the director of the Yale Baroque Ensemble, whose members are Benjamin Charmot and Katherine Hyun, baroque violins; Daniel Lee, baroque violin and viola; Laura Usiskin, baroque cello; and Avi Stein, harpsichord. (more…)
New Music New Haven 11/19 features composer Jack Vees
Program includes Vees’s “Party Talk” and premieres by other Yale composers
The Yale School of Music presents a New Music New Haven concert featuring composer Jack Vees on Thursday, November 19 at 8 pm in Sprague Hall. The highlight of the concert will be Vees’s Party Talk, a piece written in 1996 for narrator and mixed ensemble of winds, brass, percussion, piano, organ, strings, and electric bass. The concert will also premiere music by student composers, including excerpts from Chris Cerrone’s opera Invisible Cities, Jordan Kuspa’s Piano Trio, Adrian Knight’s Work for Sixteen Strings, and Feinan Wang’s Pisces Monodrama–Chapter VII. Christopher Theofanidis is the artistic director of the New Music New Haven concert series. (more…)
Wendy Sharp in Sunday afternoon recital Nov. 15
Violinist Wendy Sharp will join with pianist Julie Nishmura in a Faculty Artist Recital featuring a broad range of music from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first. Several pieces on the program are based on earlier music, including the opening work: Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne, based on his ballet Pulcinella, which in turn reworked music of the Italian baroque. Flow, my tears, by Yale faculty composer Christopher Theofanidis, references John Dowland’s 1596 air of the same name. Dvorak’s Four Romantic Pieces for violin and piano are arranged from his own Miniatures for two violins and viola. Mozart’s Sonata in A major, K. 526, provides a classical anchor. The program will conclude with Jennifer Higdon’s String Poetic, a piece praised by the New York Times as “striking.” The San Francisco Chronicle noted its “rhetorical clarity and dexterous interplay between the two instruments.” The recital will take place on Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 4 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (470 College Street, New Haven).
Admission to the recital is free. For more information, visit the School of Music’s website or call the Yale School of Music concert office at 203 432-4158. (more…)
Guitarist, lutenist John Schneiderman at Collection of Musical Instruments
The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments will present a recital by the critically-acclaimed John Schneiderman, a virtuoso on plucked instruments and a specialist in eighteenth-century lutes and nineteenth-century guitars. Based in California, Mr. Schneiderman is in demand as a soloist and chamber musician collaborating on recordings and performances throughout North America. Schneiderman will perform in the intimate venue of the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments, one of the foremost institutions of its kind, on Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 3 pm. (more…)
Organist Brian Harlow performs music from Bach to the present day
Program features Widor’s masterful Symponie Romane
The organist Brian Harlow, director of music at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Morristown, NJ, will perform a recital on the celebrated Newberry Memorial Organ in Yale’s Woolsey Hall on Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 8pm. The program will open with J.S. Bach’s Toccata in C major, BWV 564. It continues with Mytò, written in 1981 by the Dutch composer Ad Wammes, and Herbert Howells’s De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine (Ps. 130:1) from the Psalm-Preludes. The most recent work on the program is the 2002 Toccata for Organ by the American composer Gerre Hancock. The recital, one of the final requirements for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Yale School of Music, will conclude with Charles-Marie Widor’s masterpiece for the organ, the Symphonie Romane, Op. 73. (more…)
Season’s first Lunchtime Chamber Music October 14
The Yale School of Music will present the first Lunchtime Chamber Music concert of the season on Wednesday, October 14 at 12:30 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (470 College St., New Haven). This free event features a colorful variety of ensembles comprised of graduate musicians who have come from around the world to study at the Yale School of Music. Violinist Wendy Sharp is director of the chamber music program.
The program will include movements from:
J.S. Bach, Brandenburg Suite, arr. for brass quintet
André Jolivet, Pastorales de Noël for flute, bassoon and harp
Franz Schubert, Trout Quintet for piano and strings
W.A. Mozart, Quintet in E-flat major for piano and winds
Tomaso Albinoni: Concerto “Saint Mark,” arr. for brass quintet
Admission to the concert is free. For more information, visit the Yale School of Music website, or call 203 432-4158.
New Music New Haven features composer Bernard Rands
New Music New Haven presents a concert featuring composer Bernard Rands on Thursday, October 8 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall. Rands, a professor at Harvard, is the winner of such accolades as the Pulitzer Prize and a Grammy Award. The program will feature Rands’ virtuosic Concertino for solo oboe and mixed ensemble, and “now again” for mezzo-soprano and ensemble. Rands favors unconventional combinations of instruments: the ensemble for Concertino consists of flute, clarinet, harp, and string quartet, and that for “now again” includes flute, clarinet, trumpet, percussion, harp, violin, viola, cello, and soprano and alto singers. The text of “now again” compiles fragments of poetry from Sappho.
The concert will also premiere new works by two Yale School of Music composers. Jordan Kuspa’s Lemonade Battery for chamber orchestra will open the evening’s program. Following it will be Polina Nazaykinskaya’s Real April for soprano, baritone, and ensemble, based on the poetry of Jordan Jacks and Laura Marris. (more…)
Bigger Than Life: Big Band Music of Benny Goodman
Festival for Benny Goodman’s 100th birthday concludes with a concert by the Yale Jazz Ensemble, directed by Thomas C. Duffy and featuring clarinetist Vincent Oneppo
Yale’s Celebrating the King of Swing: A Festival for Benny Goodman’s 100th Birthday will conclude with a big band concert on Tue, Sep. 29 at 8 pm in Sprague Hall, featuring arrangements that made Goodman one of the most popular musicians of all time.
Thomas C. Duffy will direct the Yale Jazz Ensemble and clarinetist Vincent Oneppo in an exciting program called Bigger Than Life: The Big Band Music of Benny Goodman. The authentic arrangements – including many of Goodman’s signatures, like “Let’s Dance,” “Don’t Be That Way,” and “Sing, Sing, Sing” – were selected from the Benny Goodman Archives in the Gilmore Music Library at Yale. They include music by the great Fletcher Henderson and other legendary composers associated with New Haven and Yale, including Mel Powell and Cole Porter. (more…)
From the Archives: New York Phil at Yale in 1922
In 1922, the Philharmonic Society of New York – which would later call itself the New York Philharmonic – performed at Yale. It was the orchestra’s 1660th concert and fell in their eightieth season. A year previously, the Philharmonic had merged with the New York-based National Symphony Orchestra (not the same organization as the ensemble of the same name based in Washington, DC). (more…)
YSM students perform at Summer Music Sundays
Bartlett Arboretum and Gardens will feature students from the Yale School of Music in their Sunday morning classical music series. Held every Sunday from June 28 through September 6, the summer series takes place on the grounds of the gardens, which are located in Stamford, Conn. In case of rain, the performances will take place in the Visitor Center’s intimate living room. Concerts are free to members or with garden admission.
Sunday Morning Classical Music 10-11am
June 28
July 5, 12, 19, 26
August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
September 6
Bartlett Arboretum and Gardens
YSM students perform at the Kennedy Center
Fourteen students from the Yale School of Music will perform at the prestigious Kennedy Center in Washington, DC on Monday, May 25 at 6:00 pm. The concert is part of the the Conservatory Project, a series of events presenting the finest young artists from the country’s foremost conservatories.
The varied program includes solo and ensemble performances of music by Haydn, Verdi, Bizet, and Prokofiev, as well as less well-known composers such as Keiko Abe, Jorge Morel, and Robert Beaser. Solo piano, guitar, and marimba are featured, as well as vocal works, a string quartet, and a brass quintet. (more…)
Commencement Concert Toasts the Class of 2009
The Yale School of Music presents its annual Commencement Concert on Sunday afternoon, May 24, 2009 at 4:00 pm in Sprague Memorial Hall (College and Wall Streets, New Haven). Admission is free. The hour-long program showcases outstanding graduating performers who have come from around the world to study at Yale. Performers include virtuosi from the School’s string, wind, piano, and voice departments performing a diverse program.
Because many parents and friends of graduating students may not have had the opportunity to hear the high level of music-making offered at the Yale School of Music, Dean Robert Blocker introduced Sprague Hall Commencement concerts in 1996. Marking the end of the School’s concert season, the Commencement Concert also provides an opportunity for regular concert-goers in the Yale and New Haven communities to enjoy a final program by outstanding student performers.
EVENT DETAILS
Sunday, May 24, 2009 at 4 pm, Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (Corner of College and Wall Streets, New Haven).
Yale School of Music Commencement Concert. Top graduating performers from the Yale School of Music, including voice, strings, winds, and piano. Admission is free. For more information: 203 432-4158, music.yale.edu.
Video of Jesse Levine Memorial Concert
Video of the Jesse Levine Memorial Concert is now available online. Held on February 22, 2009 in Battell Chapel, the concert featured spoken tributes, a photo slideshow, and performances of music by Villa-Lobos, Schubert, Kreisler, Ravel, Mendelssohn, and Bach.
Performers from the Yale School of Music community included the Yale Cellos, conducted by Aldo Parisot; Syoko Aki, violin; Frank Morelli, bassoon; pianists Joan Panetti and Elizabeth Parisot; and several violists who have studied with Levine both recently and in past years. Pianist Morey Ritt, Levine’s longtime friend and musical colleague, also performed.
View the video of the memorial concert here, or read a preview of the event. This video streams on demand with CD-quality audio as part of the Yale School of Music’s series of netcasts.
Lunchtime Chamber Music in Sprague Hall
The Yale School of Music presents Lunchtime Chamber Music on Wednesday, April 29 at 12:30 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (470 College St., New Haven). This free event features a colorful variety of ensembles made up of graduate students at the Yale School of Music. Lunchtime Chamber Music concerts often feature favorite works of the chamber repertoire as well as more unusual pieces. Violinist Wendy Sharp is director of the chamber music program.
Admission to the concert is free. For more information, visit the Yale School of Music website, music.yale.edu, or call 203 432-4158.
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Yale School of Music presents Lunchtime Chamber Music
Featuring graduate students from the Yale School of Music chamber music program
Wendy Sharp, director
Date/time: April 29, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Venue: Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall
470 College Street, New Haven
Tickets: Free
Phone/web: 203 432-4158 • music.yale.edu
From the Archives: Vladimir de Pachmann’s all-Chopin recital at the Yale School of Music
The Ukrainian pianist Vladimir de Pachmann, born in 1848 to an Austrian violinist father and a Turkish mother, performed an all-Chopin program at the Yale School of Music on its Woolsey Hall Series. The program does not list the year of the recital, but it would have taken place by 1925, the last time he performed in New York before retiring to Italy. (more…)
Yale Philharmonia to play Mahler’s epic Fifth Symphony
The Yale School of Music presents the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale in a spectacular program of Mahler, Britten, and Saint-Saëns in Woolsey Hall at 8:00 pm on Saturday, April 4, 2009.
The great conductor Herbert von Karajan said once that when you hear Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, “you forget that time has passed. A great performance of the Fifth is a transforming experience. The fantastic finale almost forces you to hold your breath.” The Philharmonia, under the direction of Shinik Hahm, performs this riveting work in the resonant, historic space of Woolsey Hall.
After the symphony, which was written in 1901-02, the program continues into the twentieth century with Benjamin Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from his opera Peter Grimes. Written during World War II, shortly after the composer’s return to his native Britain, the evocative Interludes will be conducted by Farkhad Khudiyev. The program will conclude with Saint-Saëns’ youthful, energetic Cello Concerto, a work that the Philharmonia performed with great success on its tour of Asia last July. In this performance, the soloist will be Ashley Bathgate, a winner of the 2008 Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition.
Admission to the concert is free. For more information, visit the Yale School of Music website, music.yale.edu, or call 203 432-4158.
Music on a Snowy Day
Despite the snowy weather, all of the events scheduled for Monday, March 2 will proceed as scheduled.
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Today’s concerts include a recital by the Jasper String Quartet, the graduate quartet-in-residence at the Yale School of Music. The program includes string quartets by Mozart, Bartók, and Schumann; the ensemble – J Freivogel and Sae Niwa, violins; Sam Quintal, viola; and Rachel Henderson, cello – has garnered praise for the “tight ensemble, choreographed playing and driving energy in their performance” (Yellow Spring News). Information on their performance is available here as well as on our concerts website.
A complete listing of today’s performances, including student recitals on violin, horn, double bass, and organ, is available here.
Pierre Réach performs Bach’s Goldberg Variations
Réach is an acclaimed interpreter of the demanding Variations
Pierre Réach, the celebrated French pianist, will perform J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations on the Horowitz Piano Series on Tuesday, January 28 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall (470 College Street, corner of Wall St., New Haven). Réach has twice recorded and often performed this singularly challenging and important work, and has received broad respect for his interpretations. Tickets to the performance are only $13 to $24 (students $8).
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit the Yale School of Music website at www.yale.edu/music or call 203 432-4158. Box office hours are Monday–Friday, 9 am to 5 pm, in the Sprague Hall lobby, 470 College Street, New Haven.
The career of pianist Pierre Réach is defined by his international performances, pedagogical activities, and organization of wide-ranging artistic events. His career began in a classic way: after brilliant studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, he was accepted in the Improvement Cycle and then studied several years with Maria Curcio in London. During this period, Pierre Réach received numerous awards: First Prize in the Olivier Messiaen International Piano Competition in Paris, a Medal in the Artur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Israel, First Prize in the Pozzoli International Competition in Milano, and Second Prizes in the Maria Canals and Jaén Competitions (Spain), as well the Casella Competition (Italy). He became the assistant of Yvonne Loriod for several years in the CNSM in Paris. Pierre Réach has appeared, in solo recitals and with orchestras, around the world, from Japan and Korea to England and France. Since 2002 he has undertaken an annual concert tour of China. He has played in festivals such as Nohant, Saint Riquier, Lisztomania de Chateauroux, Prades, Menton, Strasbourg, and Vaison la Romaine (France); Brescia-Bergamo, Fenice, Pomerigi Musicali, and Festival Liszt de Grottammare (Italy); and Saint Petersburg, Tokyo, Seoul, and Shanghai.
“Love and Separation” with tenor James Taylor
Program includes music of Beethoven, Schubert, and Schumann
The Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music present a Faculty Artist Series recital by acclaimed tenor James Taylor on Sunday, January 25 at 5 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall (470 College St at Wall St). Taylor, who teaches voice at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and directs the Yale Voxtet, will perform with pianist Donald Sulzen, an internationally sought-after accompanist and chamber musician. Their program’s theme is “Love and Separation,” and will include Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 9, Shubert’s song cycle Auf dem Wasser zu Singen, and Schumann’s beloved song cycle Dichterliebe. For more information, visit the Yale School of Music website, www.yale.edu/music, or call 203 432-4158.
The American lyric tenor James Taylor joined the Yale faculty in 2005 after serving as professor of voice at the Musikhochschule in Augsburg, Germany. He is a sought-after oratorio singer, appearing worldwide with such renowned conductors as Eschenbach, Harnoncourt, Blomstedt, and Koopman, and touring extensively with Helmuth Rilling. He has appeared with the Vienna Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, and Tafelmusik. His more than thirty-five CD recordings include Dvorák’s Stabat Mater, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, and the songs of John Duke. Taylor is one of the founders of Liedertafel, a male vocal quartet that has appeared in major European festivals and recorded for the Orfeo label. Recent engagements include Mozart’s Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the New York Philharmonic, and Britten’s Horn Serenade with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.
Donald Sulzen is one of the most requested pianists for accompanying and chamber music at the international level. He has performed in the most prestigious recital halls of Europe, the USA, South America, and Japan. His numerous performances on radio and television include stations in Germany, France, and Italy. He has completed more than thirty CDs for Orfeo International, Toshiba-EMI, Koch International, Genuin, Arte Nova, cpo and Amati. After teaching for several years at the Salzburg Mozarteum, he now teaches at Munich’s Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst. He has also given master classes for singers and pianists throughout America and Europe.
