Tokyo Quartet, Peter Oundjian receive Sanford Medals
At the Tokyo String Quartet‘s performance last night, Dean Robert Blocker awarded the Sanford Medal to current and past members of the quartet. The medal, which is the highest honor that the Yale School of Music bestows, is awarded for distinguished service to music. Blocker presented the medal to the four current members of the [...]
Yale Philharmonia performs Bruckner’s Third Symphony Jan. 13
Peter Oundjian conducts; program also features music of Ravel and Tchaikovsky The Yale School of Music presents the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale in a concert featuring music by Bruckner, Ravel, and Tchaikovsky on Friday, January 13, 2012. Peter Oundjian, music director of the Toronto Symphony and principal guest conductor of the Yale Philharmonia, will conduct [...]
Yale Philharmonia and Oundjian perform Bruch, Adams, Tchaikovsky Oct. 21
Violinist Soo Ryun Baek performs Bruch’s “Scottish Fantasy” The Yale School of Music presents the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale in a concert featuring music by Max Bruch and John Adams along with Tchaikovsky’s Second Symphony on Friday, October 21, 2011 at 8 pm in Woolsey Hall (500 College Street, New Haven). Peter Oundjian, music director [...]
Peter Oundjian to be music director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Peter Oundjian – a longtime faculty member of the Yale School of Music, the principal guest conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale, and a former first violinist of the Tokyo String Quartet – was named the new music director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He will succeed Stéphane Denève in the role. According [...]
Guest conductor Peter Oundjian leads the Yale Philharmonia in an evening of Russian music October 22
Program features Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, plus Glinka and Koussevitzky The Yale School of Music presents the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale and principal guest conductor Peter Oundjian on Friday, October 22 at 8 pm in Woolsey Hall (corner of College and Grove Streets, New Haven). All the music on the program is from Russia, with [...]
Peter Oundjian to conduct Yale Philharmonia Jan. 22
Oundjian leads the orchestra in Rimsky-Korsakov, Walton, Vaughan Williams The Yale School of Music presents the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale with guest conductor Peter Oundjian on Friday, January 22 at 8 pm in Woolsey Hall (500 College Street, New Haven). Oundjian, music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia’s principal guest conductor, will [...]




