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Ole Akahoshi and Elizabeth Parisot perform together at Yale Feb. 20

Ole Akahoshi and Elizabeth Parisot perform together at Yale Feb. 20

Program includes music of Bach, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn The Yale School of Music presents a recital by Ole Akahoshi, cello, and Elizabeth Parisot, piano, on Wednesday, February 20 at 8 pm.The concert is part of the Faculty Artist Series, which presents members of the YSM faculty in programs that are free and open to the [...]


Tokyo String Quartet performs in Morse Recital Hall for the last time Jan. 22

Tokyo String Quartet performs in Morse Recital Hall for the last time Jan. 22

Concert features string quartets by Haydn, Bartók, Mendelssohn The Yale School of Music presents a concert featuring the Tokyo String Quartet on Tuesday, January 22. It will be the group’s last performance on the Oneppo Chamber Music Series at the Yale School of Music; this is the ensemble’s last season before retirement. In this valedictory performance, [...]


Jasper String Quartet returns to Yale for Dec. 11 concert with pianist Wei-Yi Yang

Jasper String Quartet returns to Yale for Dec. 11 concert with pianist Wei-Yi Yang

Program features music by Mendelssohn, Ligeti, and Schumann The Oneppo Chamber Music Series at the Yale School of Music presents the Jasper String Quartet on Tuesday, December 11 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall. The program will feature string quartets by Mendelssohn and Ligeti, as well as Schumann’s majestic piano quintet with faculty pianist [...]


Ole Akahoshi & Elizabeth Parisot perform May 4

Faculty Artist Series presents its last concert of the season The Yale School of Music presents the cellist Ole Akahoshi and the pianist Elizabeth Parisot in concert on Friday, May 4. The concert, which takes place at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall, will mark the close of the 2011–2012 season for the Faculty Artist [...]


Clive Greensmith & Wei-Yi Yang perform Mendelssohn duets Apr. 19

Clive Greensmith & Wei-Yi Yang perform Mendelssohn duets Apr. 19

Featuring the historical Erard piano in the Collection of Musical Instruments The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments presents cellist Clive Greensmith and pianist Wei-Yi Yang in a concert featuring music of Mendelssohn on Thursday, April 19, 2012. The program will take place at 8 pm at the Collection of Musical Instruments (15 Hillhouse Avenue, New [...]


Yale Philharmonia performs with Shinik Hahm, Lindsay Garritson Nov. 17

Yale Philharmonia performs with Shinik Hahm, Lindsay Garritson Nov. 17

The Yale School of Music presents the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale in a concert featuring Romantic music on Thursday, November 17, 2011. Shinik Hahm will conduct the orchestra, and Lindsay Garritson will be the piano soloist. The concert takes place at 8 pm in Woolsey Hall (500 College Street, corner of Grove Street). Mendelssohn’s Overture [...]


Vista program offers a fresh look at chamber music by Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and Widmann

The Yale School of Music presents Vista: A Fresh Look at Chamber Music on Sunday, December 5, 2010 at 8 pm in Sprague Hall. Part of the School of Music’s renowned chamber music program, Vista features diverse student ensembles that have been selected and coached by faculty. Each ensemble not only performs but also offers [...]


Birthday concert from violinist Wendy Sharp features new works and Mendelssohn’s Octet

Birthday concert from violinist Wendy Sharp features new works and Mendelssohn's Octet

Premieres of music by Timo Andres ’09MM, Rick Bassett, and Gerald Cohen on June 13 program How does a prominent violinist celebrate her fiftieth birthday? With a concert, of course, and also by having three composers write new pieces just for the occasion. And to top it off, by playing one of the great chamber [...]


Nicholas McGegan: “Celebration of Four Masters”

Nicholas McGegan: “Celebration of Four Masters”

Nicholas McGegan, acclaimed by The New Yorker as “an expert in eighteenth-century style,” will conduct choral and orchestral works of Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn, and George Frideric Handel on Sunday, March 1, 2009 at 4 pm in Woolsey Hall. The concert is a “Celebration of Four Masters”— a reference to McGegan and the three featured [...]


Daedalus Quartet: Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Carter

Quartet has won a Martin Segal Award and Guarneri String Quartet Award The award-winning Daedalus String Quartet, called “one of the finest ensembles around” by the New York Sun, will perform on Yale’s Chamber Music Society series on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 8:00 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall. The program will [...]