Garth Neustadter ’12MM nominated for Emmy Award
Original score to PBS documentary garners an Emmy nomination for composition student The Yale School of Music is pleased to announce that composer Garth Neustadter ’12MM has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for his score for the PBS documentary John Muir in the New World. The score was recorded at Yale with members [...]
Oscar Nominations for Yale graduates
Several graduates of the Yale School of Music have distinguished themselves as film composers. This year’s Oscar nominations featured two Yale alumni: Marco Beltrami ’91MM and Maury Yeston ’67BA, ’74PhD. Marco Beltrami ’91MM and Buck Sanders were nominated for Best Score for The Hurt Locker; he was previously nominated for the score to 3:10 to [...]
Recording of David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion nominated for Grammy
David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion has already earned him a Pulitzer Prize in Music. Now a recording of the piece on Harmonia Mundi has been nominated for a 2010 Grammy Award. Nominated in the category of Best Small Ensemble Performance, the recording features Ars Nova Copenhagen and the Theatre of Voices, conducted by [...]
Grammy nominations for Yale alumni
Four Yale alumni – Marin Alsop, Sharon Isbin, Maureen Nelson, and Richard Belcher – received nominations for this year’s Grammy Awards. Alsop, a graduate of Yale College, is the artistic director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the first woman to hold such a position at a major American orchestra. The other three are graduates of [...]
David Kurtz ’MM80 garners three Emmy nominations
David Kurtz ’MM80, a composer and lyricist, has been nominated for three Emmy Awards. One nomination is for Outstanding Achievement In Music Direction And Composition For A Drama Series; Kurtz, along with fellow composer Jack Allocco and music supervisors Mike Dobson and Bryan Harrison, was nominated for his work on The Young and the Restless. [...]
