Kim Perlak ’01MM releases CD of American music
Kim Perlak ’01MM has released Common Ground, a disc of new American music for solo classical guitar. The CD was recorded March of 2011 in Sprague Hall with engineer Eugene Kimball, the School of Music’s recording engineer. All of the music on the recording is American, new, and written by living composers. The recording features [...]
About the performers for the Guitar Extravaganza
SoloDuo Since they first met in 2000, Matteo Mela and Lorenzo Micheli have shared a number of ideas, musical projects, and travels all over the world. In 2003 they formed a duo that has already performed throughout Europe, Asia and North America, and has been acclaimed everywhere – from New York’s Carnegie Hall to Vienna’s [...]
Guitar Extravaganza announces lectures + panel discussions
This year’s Yale Guitar Extravaganza, The Guitar: Today and Tomorrow, is pleased to announce its lineup of guest speakers. (Concert performers for this year’s Extravaganza are listed here.) The Seventh Yale Guitar Extravaganza will take place Saturday, March 24, 2012. A full schedule is available here. The day’s first panel discussion will address The Future [...]
Seventh Yale Guitar Extravaganza announces lineup
March 24 full of concerts, master classes, workshops, & more The Yale School of Music is pleased to announce the line-up for the seventh semiannual Guitar Extravaganza. The event, which will take place on Saturday, March 24, 2012, is directed by celebrated guitarist Benjamin Verdery, the longstanding chair of the guitar department at the Yale [...]
alumniVentures grant to Kim Perlak ’01MM keeps on giving
Guitarist and professor Kim Perlak ’01MM received an alumniVentures grant in 2009-10 and wrote recently to tell YSM of the project’s successful continuation. alumniVentures, the initiative supporting efforts to advance the cause of music, began in 2008-09 and has given three rounds of grants to YSM alumni. Wrote Perlak, “My music history and performance students [...]
Yale Guitar Extravaganza VI:
From Baroque to Electric
Featured recital by acclaimed guitarist Eliot Fisk The Yale School of Music presents the Guitar Extravaganza VI on Saturday, March 7 in Sprague Memorial Hall and Leigh Hall. Under the artistic direction of Benjamin Verdery, renowned guitarist and longstanding chair of the guitar department at the Yale School of Music, the Extravaganza brings together guitarists [...]
