Ettore Causa and Boris Berman perform Feb. 19th
Duos for piano and viola by Schumann, Brahms, Hindemith, and more The Yale School of Music’s Faculty Artist Series presents violist Ettore Causa and pianist Boris Berman in a concert on Tuesday, February 19 at 8 pm. The duo will perform music by Schumann, Brahms, Hindemith, and Franck. The concert will open with two movements [...]
Jasper String Quartet returns to Yale for Dec. 11 concert with pianist Wei-Yi Yang
Program features music by Mendelssohn, Ligeti, and Schumann The Oneppo Chamber Music Series at the Yale School of Music presents the Jasper String Quartet on Tuesday, December 11 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall. The program will feature string quartets by Mendelssohn and Ligeti, as well as Schumann’s majestic piano quintet with faculty pianist [...]
Clarinetist Charles Neidich, pianist Robert Levin perform Schumann and Brahms Dec. 2 & 3
The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments presents the eminent duo of clarinetist Charles Neidich ’75BA and pianist Robert Levin on December 2 and 3. Using historical instruments, the performances will feature music of Brahms and Schumann as the composers themselves might have heard them. Levin will be performing on a piano built by Johann Baptist [...]
Hung-Kuan Chen performs Brahms, Schumann & more Nov. 28
“A virtuoso… with an enormous palette of tone colors.” ––Boston Globe New Haven, CT | The Horowitz Piano Series at the Yale School of Music presents a recital by the pianist Hung-Kuan Chen on Wednesday, November 28. Chen, a faculty member hailed by the Boston Globe as “a deeply probing, imaginative player with an enormous palette of tone [...]
Horowitz Piano Series closes season with Robert Blocker on March 21
“A pianist of purified technique and enormous sensitivity.” – La Provincia The Horowitz Piano Series at the Yale School of Music presents a recital by the pianist Robert Blocker, on Wednesday, March 21. Blocker, hailed as “a pianist of purified technique and enormous sensitivity,” will perform a diverse program of music from the Baroque to [...]
Yale Brass Trio performs music from the Renaissance to Rachmaninoff
Nov. 1 concert also features pianist Mihae Lee and composer Ezra Laderman The Yale School of Music presents the Yale Brass Trio in a Faculty Artist Series concert on Tuesday, November 1. The trio brings together three Yale School of Music faculty members who have all established high-profile careers of their own: Allan Dean, trumpet; [...]
Violinist Brian Lewis performs Schumann, Milhaud, Avalon, and more Oct. 11
“This is artistry that isn’t to be missed.” – Topeka Capital-Journal The Yale School of Music presents violinist Brian Lewis in a Faculty Artist Recital on Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall at 470 College Street). Now in his second year as a visiting professor at [...]
Faculty artists perform Yiddish cantata, Shostakovich, Beethoven, Schumann, de Falla
Soprano Janna Baty and friends perform multilingual program Oct. 9 The Yale School of Music presents the acclaimed pianist Peter Frankl and soprano Janna Baty in a Faculty Artist Recital on Sunday, October 9, 2011 at 4 pm in Morse Recital Hall. Along with faculty colleagues Ani Kavafian, violin; Ole Akahoshi, cello; and Allan Dean, [...]
Boris Berman opens Horowitz Piano Series Oct. 5
Program highlights Schumann and Brahms Internationally renowned concert pianist Boris Berman, artistic director of the Horowitz Piano Series at Yale, opens the 2011–2012 season with a solo recital on Wednesday, October 5 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall. The recital will focus on music of German Romantic composers: Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms. Berman, praised [...]
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
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 [...]
RESCHEDULED: Pianist Boris Berman and violist Ettore Causa play Brahms and Schumann Mar. 26
Program features music written for wind instruments, adapted for viola The Yale School of Music presents a Faculty Artist Recital by Ettore Causa, viola, and Boris Berman, piano, on Saturday, March 26, at 5 pm in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall at 470 College Street, New Haven). The recital was originally scheduled for [...]
Star piano quartet OPUS ONE gives East Coast premiere of a Lowell Liebermann piece, plus music of Mozart and Schumann
“The technical mastery of a solo recital with with the exuberance of a jam session.” – Post Gazette The Chamber Music Society at Yale presents OPUS ONE in a recital on Tuesday, December 7, 2010 at 8 pm in Sprague Hall (470 College Street, New Haven). The distinguished piano quartet has garnered widespread acclaim since [...]
Boris Berman and Eteri Andjaparidze join together in an evening of Schumann piano duos October 13
First Horowitz Series concert of the season celebrates the 200th anniversary of Schumann’s birth The Horowitz Piano Series at the Yale School of Music presents Boris Berman and Eteri Andjaparidze playing piano duos of Robert Schumann on Wednesday, October 13 at 8 pm in Sprague Hall (470 College Street, New Haven). Berman, coordinator of the [...]
Online Schumann exhibit launches
On June 8, the Gilmore Music Library celebrated Robert Schumann’s 200th birthday with the installation of an exhibit designed by Richard Boursy and entitled Robert Schumann: Composer, Critic, and Correspondent. A central figure in the romantic movement in Germany, Schumann (1810–1856) concentrated on piano music in the early phase of his career, and eventually came [...]
Peter Frankl offers a recital of Chopin and Schumann to honor the bicentennial year of the two Romantic composers
The Horowitz Piano Series at the Yale School of Music presents the internationally-renowned pianist Peter Frankl in a recital of Chopin and Schumann on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 8 pm in Sprague Hall (470 College Street, New Haven). Both Chopin and Schumann were born in 1810, and this recital honors the bicentennial of both [...]
In memoriam: Recordings of pianist Donald Currier playing Schumann, Debussy
When pianist Donald Currier retired in 1989 after decades of service, the School of Music honored him by producing his recordings of solo piano music of Chopin, Debussy, Mozart, Schumann, and Schoenberg in Sprague Hall. In memory of Currier, who passed away on January 7th, 2010 (view obituary), the School of Music posts here two [...]
Pianists Peter Frankl and Wei-Yi Yang pair up in Schumann and Debussy program
Fascinating December 16 concert includes music by Schumann arranged by Debussy, and music by Debussy arranged by Ravel The Horowitz Piano Series at Yale presents Peter Frankl and Wei-Yi Yang, both professors of piano at the Yale School of Music, in a program of piano duets on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 8 pm. The [...]
Nash Ensemble to perform music for clarinet, horn, strings, and piano
The Chamber Music Society at Yale presents the Nash Ensemble, one of Britain’s finest and most adventurous chamber groups, at 8:00 pm on Tuesday, April 7 in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall. The ensemble, which performs music for widely varied combinations of its twelve-person roster, will perform music for piano, clarinet, horn, and [...]
Malcolm Bilson inaugurates new fortepiano at YSM
Recital will feature music of Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms Malcolm Bilson, acclaimed for his pioneering work in the period-instrument movement, will give the inaugural recital on the Yale School of Music’s new fortepiano on Tuesday, February 24 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall. The program, which is part of [...]
Award-winning Jasper Quartet performs Mozart, Bartók, Schumann
The Yale School of Music presents a recital by the Jasper String Quartet, the fellowship quartet-in-residence, at 8:00 pm on Monday, March 2 in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall. The program ranges from Mozart to Bartók, with Mozart’s “Dissonance” Quartet in C major, K. 465; Bartók’s String Quartet No. 3; and Schumann’s String [...]
