Boris Berman plays music from a hundred years back Nov. 7
Program highlights Scriabin, Prokofiev, Debussy Multimedia program includes Debussy, Scriabin, Prokofiev NEW HAVEN, CT | The Horowitz Piano Series at the Yale School of Music presents A Hundred Years Back: music written 1912–1913, a performance by pianist Boris Berman, on Wednesday, November 7. Featuring pieces by Scriabin, Prokofiev, and Debussy, the recital highlights the rich variety [...]
“Brilliant” pianist Yefim Bronfman performs virtuoso program at Yale Feb. 28
“Stunning command, myriad colorings, incisive articulation and subtlety…” –New York Times The Horowitz Piano Series at the Yale School of Music presents the pianist Yefim Bronfman in recital on Tuesday, February 28. The “brilliant soloist” (New York Sun), hailed for both “technical brawn and a glittery grace” (Los Angeles Times), will perform a powerhouse program [...]
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 [...]
New edition of Prokofiev piano sonatas, edited by Boris Berman
Shanghai Music Publishing House has published the complete Piano Sonatas by Prokofiev in a new performance edition by Boris Berman. Berman, a member of Yale School of Music faculty since 1984, is a recognized authority on the music of Prokofiev. This bilingual (English-Chinese) publication contains various recommendations for performers. Berman compared the text of the [...]
Netcast: Boris Berman on Rediscovered Prokofiev
Watch Boris Berman, the acclaimed pianist and Prokofiev specialist, speak with Associate Dean Michael Yaffe on the upcoming Rediscovered Prokofiev concert program. The Yale in New York series presents two evenings of premieres and rarely-heard works by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev on February 8 and 9. Berman, who conceived the program, performs with faculty [...]
Yale in New York series offers a preview of Prokofiev Rediscovered: premieres and rarities
Among the three premieres is the unfinished opera Distant Seas and Music for Athletic Exercises, performed with dance The celebrated Yale in New York series offers a special preview concert of its Prokofiev Rediscovered program on Monday, February 8, 2010 at 8 pm in Sprague Hall (470 College Street, New Haven). The program, which will [...]
YSM students perform at the Kennedy Center
Fourteen students from the Yale School of Music will perform at the prestigious Kennedy Center in Washington, DC on Monday, May 25 at 6:00 pm. The concert is part of the the Conservatory Project, a series of events presenting the finest young artists from the country’s foremost conservatories. The varied program includes solo and ensemble [...]
Interview: Boris Berman on Prokofiev
Pianist and Prokofiev expert Boris Berman talks with Yale piano student David Kaplan about Prokofiev and performances of his music by Yale musicians in New York and New Haven. In 2008, the Yale School of Music presented two all-Prokofiev performances featuring Berman and the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale in Carnegie Hall and Woolsey Hall. The [...]
