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Yale Cellos perform 30th anniversary concert Apr. 10

Yale Cellos perform 30th anniversary concert Apr. 10

“Dazzlingly well-disciplined.” – New York Times The Yale School of Music celebrates the 30th anniversary of Yale Cellos in a concert on Wednesday, April 10. Founding director Aldo Parisot will lead the Grammy-nominated ensemble in music from the baroque to the present day, including pieces by Vivaldi, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Veracini, and others. Four virtuoso [...]


Wei-Yi Yang performs Spanish program Oct. 10

Wei-Yi Yang performs Spanish program Oct. 10

The Yale School of Music opens the 2012—2013 season of the Horowitz Piano Series with a recital by the “untiring, passionate, and poetic” (Classics Today) pianist Wei-Yi Yang on Wednesday, October 10. The centerpiece of the program is Enrique Granados’s masterful Goyescas, a neo-Romantic piano suite inspired by the work of the Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Goyescas [...]


Violinist Wendy Sharp & friends perform chamber music of France

Violinist Wendy Sharp & friends perform chamber music of France

January 29 concert features music of Fauré, Ravel, and Milhaud The Yale School of Music’s Faculty Artist Series presents violinist Wendy Sharp (pictured at left) in a concert of French chamber music on Sunday, January 29th at 4 pm. Sharp will be joined by violist Marka Gustavsson, cellist Mimi Hwang, and pianist Melvin Chen. The [...]


“Poetic” pianist Wei-Yi Yang performs Jan. 25

“Poetic” pianist Wei-Yi Yang performs Jan. 25

Recital features music of Ravel and Schubert The Horowitz Piano Series at the Yale School of Music presents a recital by the “untiring, passionate, and poetic” (Classics Today) pianist Wei-Yi Yang on Wednesday, January 25. Mr. Yang’s performances have been described by critics as “sensational” (New York Times) and “a joy to behold” (Classics Today). [...]


Yale Philharmonia performs Bruckner’s Third Symphony Jan. 13

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 [...]


Linden String Quartet opens second year of Yale residency with Oct. 31 concert

Linden String Quartet opens second year of Yale residency with Oct. 31 concert

“Remarkable depth of technique and brilliantly nuanced, sumptuous tonality…” – MusicWeb International The Yale School of Music presents the Linden String Quartet, its graduate quartet-in-residence, in concert on Monday, October 31 at 8 pm. The ensemble, which has won several prestigious honors and accolades in only three years together, will perform music by Schubert, Ravel, [...]


Longtime duo of Kyung Yu and Elizabeth Parisot performs Nov. 2

Longtime duo of Kyung Yu and Elizabeth Parisot performs Nov. 2

The Yale School of Music presents violinist Kyung Yu and pianist Elizabeth Parisot in a Faculty Artist Recital on Wednesday, November 2, 2011. Yu and Parisot, a longtime duo who have performed together in the United States, Italy, and Korea, will play music from Mozart to Ravel. The recital will take place at 8 pm [...]


Linden Quartet concert at the Kennedy Center Apr. 27 will stream live

Linden Quartet concert at the Kennedy Center Apr. 27 will stream live

The Linden String Quartet – currently the graduate quartet-in-residence at the Yale School of Music – will perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC on Wednesday, April 27 at 6 pm. The concert will stream live on the Kennedy Center’s website. The program, called Light and Dark, features Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet in F [...]


Linden String Quartet plays Schumann & Ravel April 29

Linden String Quartet plays Schumann & Ravel April 29

The Linden String Quartet will give a recital called Light and Dark on Friday, April 29, at 4 pm at the Whitney Humanities Center (located at 53 Wall Street, New Haven). The Linden Quartet has won such prestigious competitions as the Concert Artists Guild, Fischoff, and Coleman, and it shared first prize in the Hugo [...]


Pianist Hung-Kuan Chen, visiting faculty at Yale School of Music, performs Chopin, Liszt, Ravel, Scriabin December 1

Pianist Hung-Kuan Chen, visiting faculty at Yale School of Music, performs Chopin, Liszt, Ravel, Scriabin December 1

“This man plays music with uncommon understanding and the instrument with uncommon imagination.” – Richard Dyer, Boston Globe The Horowitz Piano Series at the Yale School of Music presents Hung-Kuan Chen in a recital on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 8 pm in Sprague Hall. Chen, who is a visiting professor of piano at the [...]


Mezzo-soprano Janna Baty makes faculty artist recital debut

Mezzo-soprano Janna Baty makes faculty artist recital debut

Mezzo-soprano Janna Baty, now in her second year on the faculty of the Yale School of Music, will perform a recital on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall. In her first appearance on the Faculty Artist Series, Baty and pianist Karl Paulnack will perform Beethoven’s An die [...]


Wei-Yi Yang performs Messiaen, Bach, and others on Horowitz Piano Series

Wei-Yi Yang performs Messiaen, Bach, and others on Horowitz Piano Series

The Yale School of Music presents a Horowitz Piano Series recital by  pianist Wei-Yi Yang at 8:00 pm on Monday, March 30 in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall. Yang, acclaimed by the Dallas Morning News for his “dazzling” performance with the Yale Philharmonia in Messiaen’s Turangalila at Carnegie Hall last December, will play [...]