Hannah Lash to be Assistant Professor (Adjunct) of Composition at YSM
Hannah Lash ’12AD has been appointed as Assistant Professor, adjunct, of Composition. In announcing the appointment, Dean Blocker cited Lash’s acclaimed creative work and teaching ability. Among Hannah Lash’s prizes are the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, the Naumberg Prize, the Bernard Rogers Prize, and the Sernoffsky Prize. Throughout her formal education at the Eastman [...]
New Music New Haven presents new music by five Yale faculty composers Mar. 28
Featuring the works of Lang, Bresnick, Vees, Marshall and Lash The Yale School of Music presents a New Music New Haven concert on Thursday, March 28, 2013. The concert features new music by five faculty composers: Martin Bresnick, David Lang, Hannah Lash, Ingram Marshall, and Jack Vees. David Lang‘s “Orpheus Over and Under,” for two pianos, [...]
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 Philharmonia performs new music Dec. 8
The Yale School of Music presents the Yale Philharmonia in a concert on Thursday, December 8, 2011. Shinik Hahm will conduct the orchestra in new music by graduate students in the School of Music’s composition program. The concert takes place at 8 pm in Woolsey Hall (500 College Street, New Haven). The program will open [...]
New Music New Haven features music of Martin Bresnick, Ingram Marshall Nov. 3
The Yale School of Music features the music of two of its faculty composers in a New Music New Haven concert on Thursday, November 3, 2011. Guest performers, including the Double Entendre music ensemble and violinist Todd Reynolds, will perform works by faculty composers Martin Bresnick and Ingram Marshall. The concert will also include music [...]
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, [...]
New Music New Haven features guest composer David Felder
Concert also presents chamber works by Yale School of Music composers The Yale School of Music presents a New Music New Haven concert featuring guest composer David Felder (pictured at right) on Thursday, November 4 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (470 College Street, New Haven). The evening will open with [...]
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 [...]
