New Music New Haven features faculty composer Aaron Jay Kernis in Apr. 30 concert
Correction 4/15/2013: This concert will take place at Trinity Lutheran Church, 292 Orange Street, New Haven. Kernis draws inspiration from the Italian Renaissance in his “da L’Arte dalla Dansar” The Yale School of Music presents a New Music New Haven concert on Tuesday, April 30, 2013. The concert features faculty composer Aaron Jay Kernis and his 2011 piece da L’Arte della Danssar, written for the [...]
American Academy of Arts and Letters honors Yale composers
Awardees include Steven Burke ’94MM, Ted Hearne ’08MM, ’09MMA, and Stephen Feigenbaum ’12BA, ’13MM The American Academy of Arts and Letters, an honor society whose members members are elected as the highest formal recognition of artistic merit in the United States, have announced the sixteen recipients for this year’s awards in music. This year, three Yale School [...]
Reflections on Bach brings together old and new in Feb. 27 concert
UPDATE: This concert was originally scheduled for February 13. It will take place Wednesday, February 27. Graduate composers collaborate with Yale Baroque Ensemble The Yale School of Music presents “Reflections on Bach,” a collaboration between the Yale Baroque Ensemble and graduate composers on Wednesday, February 27 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall. The concert will include new compositions as well as [...]
New Music New Haven presents Theofanidis premiere Oct. 4
“Theofanidis is an unusually skilled, communicative composer.” –Baltimore Sun The Yale School of Music presents the world premiere of Allegory of the Cave by faculty composer Christopher Theofanidis on Thursday, October 4, 2012. The piece, written for string quartet and piano, will be performed by recent graduates of the School of Music, including . “Theofanidis [...]
Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho featured in New Music New Haven concert April 12
“She is, quite simply, one of the most original compositional voices of our time.” — Kyle MacMillan, Denver Post The Yale School of Music presents a New Music New Haven concert featuring guest composer Kaija Saariaho on Thursday, April 12. Saariaho’s pieces Serenatas and Terrestre will be performed alongside new works by students in the [...]
