Free Lunchtime Chamber Music concerts Apr. 17, May 8
The Yale School of Music will present the next Lunchtime Chamber Music concerts of the year on April 17 and May 8, 2013. Both concerts take place on Wednesdays at 12:30 pm. The midday concerts in this series feature a variety of chamber ensembles, each composed of musicians undertaking graduate study at the Yale School of Music. Faculty [...]
Members of Yale Baroque Ensemble perform Nov. 13
Recital features Holly Piccoli, violin & David Fung, keyboards The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments will present a recital by two members of the Yale Baroque Ensemble on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 5:30 pm. Holly Piccoli, violin, and David Fung, piano and harpsichord, will perform music from the Baroque and Classical periods. The program includes [...]
St. Lawrence String Quartet performs Mozart, John Adams, and more April 3
Adams composed his String Quartet expressly for SLSQ The Yale School of Music presents the St. Lawrence String Quartet in concert on Tuesday, April 3. “The St. Lawrence,” writes The New Yorker, “are remarkable not simply for the quality of their music making, exalted as it is, but for the joy they take in the [...]
New semester opens with Tokyo String Quartet performance
January 10 concert features quartets of Haydn, Bartók, Dvorák The Yale School of Music presents the Tokyo String Quartet in concert on Tuesday, January 10, 2012. The ensemble, now celebrating its thirty-fifth year in residence at the Yale School of Music, will perform quartets by Haydn, Bartók, and Dvorák. The concert begins at 8 pm [...]
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, [...]
“Passionate, uninhibited, and spellbinding” Brentano String Quartet performs Oct. 18
Pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn joins to play Ginastera The Oneppo Chamber Music Series at the Yale School of Music presents the Brentano String Quartet on Tuesday, October 18 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall. In addition to string quartets by Haydn, Beethoven, and Schubert, the ensemble will perform a quintet with pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn. The [...]
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 [...]
Miró Quartet plays with Julie Landsman March 29
Quartets by Haydn and Brahms, plus Gunther Schuller’s Horn Quintet “Explosive vigor and technical finesse.” – New York Times The Chamber Music Society at Yale presents the Miró String Quartet on Tuesday, March 29 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall at 470 College Street, New Haven). The quartet, which has [...]
Linden Quartet, graduate quartet-in-residence, performs March 2
“Remarkable depth of technique and brilliantly nuanced, sumptuous tonality… delivered with a palpable, infectious joy.” – Seen and Heard The Yale School of Music presents the Linden String Quartet in recital on Wednesday, March 2 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (470 College Street, New Haven). The quartet has won such [...]
Tokyo String Quartet performs with violist Ettore Causa Feb. 8
Program includes Mozart and Szymanowski quartets, plus Mendelssohn quintet with violist Ettore Causa The Chamber Music Society at the Yale School of Music presents the Tokyo String Quartet on Tuesday, February 8 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall at 470 College Street, New Haven). The concert will open with Mozart’s [...]
Yale quartets share first prize in 2010 Hugo Kauder Competition
The Amphion String Quartet and the Linden String Quartet were jointly awarded first place in the 2010 Hugo Kauder Competition, held at Sprague Hall on Friday, June 11. The members of the Amphion String Quartet are Yale School of Music alumni Katie Hyun, violin; Mihai Marica, cello; and David Southorn, violin; as well as violist [...]
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 [...]
Sixth International Hugo Kauder Competition to take place June 11, Winners’ Concert June 12
New Haven, CT, April 26, 2010 – The Hugo Kauder Society is pleased to present its 6th annual International Hugo Kauder Competition. Five string quartets (with musicians aged under 35) have been selected to perform in front of a live jury. The groups are the Hausmann Quartet from San Francisco, the Linden String Quartet and [...]
Salzburg’s “Breathtaking” Hagen Quartet performs at the Yale School of Music on April 27
“Their performance was filled with subtlety and wonder… a thrilling encounter.” –The Independent The Yale School of Music presents the Salzburg-based Hagen Quartet in a performance on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall. The program features Beethoven’s Quartet in C Major, Op. 59, no. 3; Webern’s Five [...]
Amphion Quartet wins awards at the Plowman Chamber Music Competition
The Amphion String Quartet – whose members include three alumni of the Yale School of Music – has won the Dr. Harry & Lina Berrier First Place for Piano & Strings and The Hugo & Lucy Vianello Audience Prize at The Plowman Chamber Music Competition. The competition, held on March 14th at the Missouri Theatre [...]
Orion String Quartet performs Bach, Beethoven, and Kirchner
Pianist Peter Serkin joins the ensemble for the Brahms piano quintet The Orion String Quartet, one of America’s foremost chamber ensembles, will perform with the stellar pianist Peter Serkin at the Yale School of Music on Tuesday, February 23 at 8 pm. The first half of the program will offer string quartets by Bach, Kirchner, [...]
Tokyo String Quartet in Chamber Music Society’s first concert of the New Year
January 26 program includes music of Haydn, Barber, and Beethoven The Tokyo String Quartet, one of today’s foremost chamber ensembles, will perform at the Yale School of Music on Tuesday, January 26 at 8 pm. The quartet has been in residence at the School of Music for the past 33 years and appears in recital [...]
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 [...]
Tokyo String Quartet to perform Haydn, Beethoven, and Bartok
The Tokyo String Quartet, one of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles, will perform three powerhouse works on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 8 pm. Artists in residence at the Yale School of Music for the past 33 years, the quartet appears in recital every semester. Their performance this October will open with Haydn’s Quartet in [...]
