Arabella String Quartet performs Feb. 23
Concert features music from Haydn, Debussy, and Smetana The Yale School of Music’s Faculty Artist Series presents the Arabella Quartet on Saturday, February 23, 2013. The quartet’s members include faculty members Sarita Kwok, violin, and Ettore Causa, viola, along with Julie Eskar, violin, and Alexander Lecarme, cello. The concert takes place at 8 pm in [...]
Pianist Ryo Yanagitani opens 2013 with Jan. 10 concert
Doctor of Musical Arts recital includes music of Handel, Debussy, Chopin, and more The Yale School of Music presents a Doctor of Musical Arts recital featuring pianist Ryo Yanagitani on Thursday, January 10, 2013. The gold medal medal winner of the prestigious San Antonio International Piano Competition in 2009, Yanagitani will play a program featuring music from the [...]
“Visionary” pianist Radu Lupu makes rare New Haven appearance Jan. 17
Recital features masterworks by Franck, Schubert, and Debussy The Horowitz Piano Series at the Yale School of Music presents a recital by the Radu Lupu on Thursday, January 17. Critics describe Lupu in otherworldly terms: he is “a mystic” who “communes with the score on his own terms” (Washington Post). The Guardian writes: “There is a [...]
Peter Frankl performs music of Schubert and Debussy Dec. 12
Concert also features Ettore Causa, viola The Horowitz Piano Series at the Yale School of Music presents a recital by Peter Frankl, hailed by Auditorium as “not a mere pianist, but a true artist.” The recital, which focuses on the music of Schubert and Debussy, takes place Wednesday, December 12 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall. The concert opens [...]
Boris Berman plays music from a hundred years back Nov. 7
Program highlights Scriabin, Prokofiev, Debussy Multimedia program includes Debussy, Scriabin, Prokofiev NEW HAVEN, CT | The Horowitz Piano Series at the Yale School of Music presents A Hundred Years Back: music written 1912–1913, a performance by pianist Boris Berman, on Wednesday, November 7. Featuring pieces by Scriabin, Prokofiev, and Debussy, the recital highlights the rich variety [...]
Yves Henry performs on historical pianos at the Collection Oct. 28
“Smooth virtuosity… a real ability to stage-manage musical line.” –The New York Times The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments presents the New Haven debut of French pianist Yves Henry on Sunday, October 28. The recital will explore the musical colors of pieces by Chopin and Debussy on two of the Collection’s French pianos. Mr. Henry [...]
Wei-Yi Yang performs Spanish program Oct. 10
The Yale School of Music opens the 2012—2013 season of the Horowitz Piano Series with a recital by the “untiring, passionate, and poetic” (Classics Today) pianist Wei-Yi Yang on Wednesday, October 10. The centerpiece of the program is Enrique Granados’s masterful Goyescas, a neo-Romantic piano suite inspired by the work of the Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Goyescas [...]
Pianist Wing-Chong Kam plays Mozart, Brahms, Debussy, Chopin Oct. 20
The Yale School of Music presents the Hong Kong-born pianist Wing-Chong Kam in a Doctor of Musical Arts recital on Thursday, October 20, 2011. Kam will perform music of Mozart, Brahms, Chopin, and Debussy. His recital will take place at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall, located in Sprague Hall at 470 College Street (corner [...]
Violinist Wendy Sharp and friends perform music spanning three centuries
Performance features a world premiere by John Halle The Yale School of Music will present violinist Wendy Sharp and colleagues in a Faculty Artist Recital on Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 4 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (470 College Street, New Haven). Sharp will be joined by violist Marka Gustavsson, cellist Mimi [...]
Yale Opera’s Liederabend offers an evening of French song
Rising opera stars perform art songs by Bizet, Poulenc, Fauré, Saint-Saëns, and more The Yale School of Music presents the rising stars of Yale Opera in an evening of French song on Monday, May 3, 2010 at 8 pm in Sprague Hall. The performance continues Yale Opera’s tradition of Liederabend, evenings of art songs focusing [...]
Boris Berman plays Debussy’s 24 Preludes on March 31
The Horowitz Piano Series at the Yale School of Music presents Boris Berman playing the complete set of Claude Debussy’s 24 Preludes on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 8 pm in Sprague Hall (470 College Street, New Haven). Berman, coordinator of the piano department and artistic director of the Horowitz Piano Series, will bring his [...]
In memoriam: Recordings of pianist Donald Currier playing Schumann, Debussy
When pianist Donald Currier retired in 1989 after decades of service, the School of Music honored him by producing his recordings of solo piano music of Chopin, Debussy, Mozart, Schumann, and Schoenberg in Sprague Hall. In memory of Currier, who passed away on January 7th, 2010 (view obituary), the School of Music posts here two [...]
Pianists Peter Frankl and Wei-Yi Yang pair up in Schumann and Debussy program
Fascinating December 16 concert includes music by Schumann arranged by Debussy, and music by Debussy arranged by Ravel The Horowitz Piano Series at Yale presents Peter Frankl and Wei-Yi Yang, both professors of piano at the Yale School of Music, in a program of piano duets on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 8 pm. The [...]
Berman offers poetic recital on April 23
The Yale School of Music presents a Horowitz Piano Series recital by pianist Boris Berman at 8:00 pm on Tuesday, April 23 in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall. Praised by the New York Times for his “poetical refinement and intense musicality,” Berman will perform music by two composers who lived and worked in [...]
