Recent press about the YSM community
In the Financial Times, Harry Eyres praised a concert he’d heard this past summer at the Yale Summer School of Music/Norfolk Chamber Music Festival: ”Two of my musical highlights this year were dark, rich confrontations with mortality as interpreted by artists bringing all their life-experience to bear on music of almost unbearable poignancy.” One of these [...]
Yale in New York announces 2012–2013, its sixth season at Carnegie Hall
“Many magnificent evenings of inventive programming.” — The New York Times Yale in New York, the concert series directed by David Shifrin, announces its 2013–2013 season. At the center are celebrations: of composers, performing artists, and musical forms. Four concerts presented in Zankel Hall and Weill Recital Hall explore the deep, creative, and exciting collaborations [...]
Wind faculty reunite with Keith Wilson
By David Shifrin, professor of clarinet On Sunday, three Yale School of Music faculty members had the opportunity to perform in a chamber music concert in Menlo California called “The Winds of France.” This concert was part of a tour for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and will be repeated today on the [...]
Winds of France to serenade concertgoers Feb. 14
Featuring the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, “a jewel in this nation’s musical crown” The Yale School of Music presents Winds of France, a concert of French chamber music, on Tuesday, February 14 – Valentine’s Day. The performers are part of the prestigious Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, called “a marvelous ensemble… committed [...]
Clarinet Kaleidoscope concert features David Shifrin with graduate students and alumni May 5
The Yale School of Music will present a Clarinet Kaleidoscope Concert on Thursday, May 5, 2011 at 5 pm in Sudler Recital Hall in W.L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St., adjacent to Sprague Hall). The concert is the brainchild of David Shifrin, who is a clarinet professor at the School of Music as well as [...]
Slideshow: Yale Philharmonia at Carnegie Hall
Click below to view a slideshow of photos of the Yale Philharmonia’s performance in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall on Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. Shinik Hahm conducted the performance, which featured Ransom Wilson, flute; David Shifrin, clarinet; and Frank Morelli, bassoon. A review of the concert hailed “some of the most satisfying music-making I’ve heard [...]
Kavafian-Schub-Shifrin Trio plays trios by Mozart, Schumann, Milhaud, and Stravinsky
“No praise can be too high… for the three hyper-virtuosos.” – Boston Globe The Chamber Music Society at the Yale School of Music presents the Kavafian-Schub-Shifrin Trio on Tuesday, March 1 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall at 470 College Street, New Haven). All acclaimed soloists in their own right, [...]
Clarinetist Emil Khudyev ’11MM wins Vandoren Emerging Artist Award
Emil Khudyev was named the winner of the classical clarinet division of the inaugural Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition. The winners will also perform at the Music For All National Festival (held in Indianapolis in March, 2011) and will participate in master classes with Vandoren artists at the festival. The award also includes a cash prize [...]
Ole Akahoshi and Elizabeth Parisot play cello sonatas of Beethoven and Schubert Jan. 31
Clarinetist David Shifrin joins for the Brahms Clarinet Trio The Yale School of Music presents a Faculty Artist Recital by Ole Akahoshi, cello, and Elizabeth Parisot, piano, on Monday, January 31, at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall at 470 College Street, New Haven). The performers, who are both members of [...]
David Shifrin on Leonard Lopate Show
David Shifrin, professor of clarinet, was a guest on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show yesterday to discuss the Yale School of Music’s celebration of Benny Goodman. This May, Goodman would have turned 100, and the School of Music is celebrating with a series of events in both New Haven and New York. Shifrin is the artistic [...]
