Pianists Richard and John Contiguglia win Grand Prix du Disque
Duo pianists Richard and John Contiguglia (both ’59BA, ’61MM) are the winners of the 2012 Grand Prix du Disque, awarded last October by the Liszt Society of Hungary. The award-winning disc features Liszt’s Operatic Fantasies and Bartók’s Suite for Two Pianos. The brothers noted, “Early in our career as a professional duo-piano team we discovered duos of [...]
Roomful of Teeth releases debut album
Roomful of Teeth, a new music vocal group founded and directed by Brad Wells ’98MM, ’05DMA, released its debut album on New Amsterdam Records on October 30, 2012. The ensemble includes a rich cast of Yale alumni: Estelí Gomez ’08BA, Caroline Shaw ’07MM, Eric Dudley ’03MM, ’04MMA, ’11DMA, and Dashon Burton ’11MM as well as current [...]
Recordings from alumni
Marianna Prjevalskaya ’07MM produced a CD of a piano recital as part of her award for winning the first prize at the Jaen International Piano Competition in Spain in May 2011. The disc features Haydn’s Andante and Variations in F minor, sonatas of Scarlatti, Schumann’s Sonata in F-sharp minor, and Jose Zarate’s Aurgitana. John Gilbert [...]
Dmitri Atapine and Adela Hyeyeon Park record music of Liebermann
Dmitri Atapine ’05MMA, ’06AD, ’10DMA and Adela Hyeyeon Park ’05MM, ’06AD have released a world-premiere recording of complete music for cello and piano by the American composer Lowell Liebermann. This marks the very first recording of all but one of the sonatas, and it is the first recording where all the works appear together. The critically-acclaimed [...]
Kim Perlak ’01MM releases CD of American music
Kim Perlak ’01MM has released Common Ground, a disc of new American music for solo classical guitar. The CD was recorded March of 2011 in Sprague Hall with engineer Eugene Kimball, the School of Music’s recording engineer. All of the music on the recording is American, new, and written by living composers. The recording features [...]
CD featuring Yale alums becomes No. 1 featured classical album on iTunes
Grace Cloutier ’05MM and the vocal ensemble Etherea, which includes several Yalies, have seen their recent album rising on the charts. Ceremony of Carols, on Delos, became the No. 1 featured classical album on iTunes and debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard ‘traditional classical’ charts. Yale alumni featured on the album include not only [...]
Paul Jacobs ’02MM, ’03AD wins Grammy for Messiaen recording
Paul Jacobs ’02MM, ’03AD was awarded a Grammy on Sunday by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He won in the category of Best Instrumental Soloist Performance without orchestra for his recording of Olivier Messiaen’s Livre du Saint-Sacrement. The recording, his second album, was released in September on the Naxos label. In an [...]
Hando Nahkur ’06CERT, ’08MMA releases new CD to acclaim
Hando Nahkur’s new CD, DeusExClavier, has been named a “Record of the Year” by Zeit-Online, the internet version of Germany’s largest weekly newspaper: “Hando Nahkur is one of the greatest new surprises of the classical music scene… With this CD he establishes himself amongst the greatest pianists….” This was the only piano CD chosen by [...]
New CD, “Shy and Mighty,” from alum Timo Andres
Music for two pianos performed by Andres ’07BA, ’09MM and David Kaplan ’07MM, ’08MMA Shy and Mighty, the first album from composer and pianist Timo Andres, has been named a Pick of the Week by WNYC and has received four starts from the Guardian. Featuring ten interrelated piano pieces and released on the Nonesuch label, [...]
Albany Records releases disc of string quartets by Ezra Laderman
Performed by the Alianza String Quartet, former fellowship quartet-in-residence Released at the end of 2009, the disc is the ninth volume in Albany Records’ series The Music of Ezra Laderman. Laderman’s twelfth (and, according to the composer, last) quartet was written for the Alianza. The members of the quartet that appear on the recording are [...]
New CD from faculty composer Ingram Marshall
Ingram Marshall, visiting lecturer in composition at the School of Music, has released a new CD. Titled “Ingram Marshall: September Canons,” the album features the Yale Philharmonia and conductor Julian Pellicano ’07MM, among other performers. Tracks include “Peaceable Kingdom,” which was performed and recorded in Sprague Hall by the Yale Philharmonia under the baton of [...]
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 [...]
