Henry Kramer, Antoine Malette-Chenier win 2013 Woolsey Competition
Henry Kramer, piano, and Antoine Malette-Chénier, harp, are the two winners of this year’s Woolsey Concerto Competition. Kramer played Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No.2, and Malette-Chenier played the Harp Concerto by Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer. The two will perform their winning pieces with the Yale Philharmonia during the 2013–2014 season. Violinist Yoon Won Song was selected as [...]
YSM pianists share top prize in Shanghai International Piano Competition
At the sixth Shanghai International Piano Competition earlier this month, Henry Kramer ’13AD and Wenbin Jin ’09CERT were jointly awarded the second prize. The first prize was not awarded. Both also won additional prizes: Jin for Best Performance of the Chinese Commissioned Work and Best Chinese Contestant, and Kramer for Best Performance of Lieder. Wenbin Jin attended [...]
Student & alumni pianists perform in Ankara, Turkey
On May 22, piano students Lee Dionne ’13MM, Henry Kramer ’13AD, and Esther Park ’12AD, ’13MMA performed with the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra in Ankara, Turkey. The concert was conducted by the orchestra’s music director, Maestro Isin Metin (pictured at left). Boris Berman, a faculty member and the chair of the piano program at the School [...]
YSM pianists survey Prokofiev’s nine piano sonatas
Dec. 5 & 7 in New Haven, Dec. 11 in New York The Yale School of Music presents all of the Prokofiev Piano Sonatas in two pairs of performances: December 5 and 7 at 8 pm at Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall, and December 11 at 5:30 pm and 8:30 pm in Weill Recital [...]
YSM pianists win prizes in Montreal Competition
Lindsay Garritson ’10MM, ’11AD won Second Prize in the 2011 Montreal International Musical Competition. Incoming Artist Diploma student Henry Kramer won the third prize. The competition’s first prize went to Italian pianist Beatrice Rana. In the final round, Garritson played Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16. Kramer performed Ravel’s Concerto in G [...]
