School of Music awards prizes at annual honors dinner
The School of Music held its annual honors dinner on Sunday, May 5. The event offered tributes to distinguished alumni and faculty, and honored outstanding students. The Cultural Leadership Citation was awarded to James D’Addario. D’Addario is the CEO of D’Addario Strings, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of instrument strings, and (with his wife) co-founder of [...]
Naomi Woo ’13MM awarded prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Will pursue postgraduate study at Cambridge University, U.K. Naomi Woo ’13MM has been selected as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. This October, she will pursue an M.Phil. in music studies at Cambridge University, U.K., where she will research musical performance and scholarship. This prestigious honor is extremely competitive; the fifty-one successful candidates were selected from a [...]
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 [...]
Vista explores colorful range of chamber music Mar. 4
Concert features performances enhanced by commentary on the music The Yale School of Music presents Vista: A Fresh Look at Chamber Music on Monday, March 4th, 2013 at 8 pm. The Vista series features diverse student ensembles that have been selected and coached by faculty, and who offer insightful spoken commentary on the music that they [...]
Free Lunchtime Chamber Music concert Dec. 12
The Yale School of Music will present the final Lunchtime Chamber Music concert of the semester on Wednesday, December 12. The concert begins at 12:30 pm at Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (470 College St., New Haven). The program includes chamber music by Handel, Brahms, Schubert, Poulenc, Bartók, and more. This free event features a colorful [...]
Guitar Chamber Music features music from Boccherini to Villa-Lobos Dec. 13
Guitars perform with strings, winds, and more The Yale School of Music presents a Guitar Chamber Music concert on Thursday, December 13, 2012. Directed by faculty member Benjamin Verdery, the concert showcases diverse chamber ensembles that include guitar. The event takes place at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall, located in Sprague Hall at 470 [...]
Vista takes an in-depth look at chamber music Dec. 5
Program features music of Mozart, Cras, and Schumann The Yale School of Music presents Vista: A Fresh Look at Chamber Music on Wednesday, December 5 at 8 pm. The Vista series features diverse student ensembles that have been selected and coached by faculty to speak about the music that they perform. The program opens with Schumann’s [...]
New Music for Orchestra features works by student composers Dec. 6
The Yale School of Music presents the annual New Music for Orchestra concert on Thursday, December 6, 2012. The program features the music of five up-and-coming composers performed by the Yale Philharmonia, conducted by Shinik Hahm. The concert presents five new pieces for chamber orchestra: “Guess That Shape” by Stephen Feigenbaum; “Arion” by William Gardiner; “Sinfonia [...]
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 [...]
YSM pianists take home prizes in San Antonio International Piano Competition
Pianist Lo-An Lin, a student of Hung-Kuan Chen, took home the Gold Medal and the prize for best performance of a Baroque work at the 2012 San Antonio International Piano Competition this past weekend. Mei Rui ’06MM, ’07AD earned Special Recognition and the prize for best performance of a Classical work. As the Gold Medal winner, Lin [...]
Student & alumni pianists perform in Ankara, Turkey
On May 22, piano students Lee Dionne ’13MM, Henry Kramer ’13AD, and Esther Park ’12AD, ’13MMA performed with the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra in Ankara, Turkey. The concert was conducted by the orchestra’s music director, Maestro Isin Metin (pictured at left). Boris Berman, a faculty member and the chair of the piano program at the School [...]
Lunchtime Chamber Music concerts Nov. 2 & 16
The Yale School of Music will present free Lunchtime Chamber Music concerts on two upcoming Wednesdays, November 2 and 16. Both concerts take place at 12:30 pm in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall at 470 College St., New Haven). These concerts feature a colorful variety of ensembles composed of graduate musicians who have [...]
Two incoming pianists take home prizes in TSO Piano Competition
The first and second prizes in the 2011 Toronto Symphony Orchestra National Piano Competition went to two incoming students at the Yale School of Music. Charles Richard-Hamelin ’13MM won first prize, which includes the opportunity to perform a concerto with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in Roy Thomson Hall. He will play Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto [...]
Kendra James ’12MM wins Shean Strings Competition
Violist Kendra James ’12MM won the first prize in the Shean Strings Competition in Edmonton. In addition to an award of $8,000, she wins the opportunity to perform as a soloist with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. She has previously soloed with the Brentwood-Westwood Symphony and the Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra. Her performance with the Edmonton [...]
Last Lunchtime Chamber Music concert of the season in Sprague Hall May 4
The Yale School of Music will present the last Lunchtime Chamber Music concert of the season on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 12:30 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (470 College St., New Haven). This free event features a colorful variety of ensembles, including excerpts from piano quintets by Brahms and Dvorak, as [...]
Concert features winning performances from annual chamber music competition
The Chamber Music Society at the Yale School of Music presents its annual concert of competition winners on Tuesday, May 3 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall at 470 College Street, New Haven). This year’s winning performers form a diverse group in terms of both instrumentation and repertoire. The concert [...]
Student Viewpoint: master class in natural trumpet
by Andreas Stoltzfus ’11MM It was a great pleasure to go to the masterclass given by Jean-Francois Madeuf and his natural trumpet colleagues. Madeuf began the masterclass by speaking about the difference between natural trumpets and baroque trumpets. A natural trumpet has no system of valves or vent holes to alter the pitch which means [...]
Composers Aaron Jay Kernis and Martin Boykan elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters
The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced earlier this month that Aaron Jay Kernis ’83MM, a graduate of the Yale School of Music and a current member of the composition faculty, and alumnus Martin Boykan ’53MM are among the ten people recently elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The [...]
Lunchtime Chamber Music in Sprague Hall March 30
The Yale School of Music will present a Lunchtime Chamber Music concert on Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 12:30 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (470 College St., New Haven). This free event features a colorful variety of ensembles composed of graduate musicians who have come from around the world to study at [...]
Vista concert offers a fresh look at chamber music
Students present commentary on the music alongside live performances The Yale School of Music presents Vista: A Fresh Look at Chamber Music on Sunday, February 20 at 4 pm in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall at 470 College Street, New Haven). Part of the School of Music’s renowned chamber music program, Vista features [...]
Yale School of Music features select graduate performers in Feb. 7 recital
Program features music of Schubert, Mendelssohn, Hindemith, Bizet, Ravel, Xenakis The Yale School of Music presents a select group of performers in a recital on Monday, February 7, at 5 pm in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall at 470 College Street, New Haven). The performers, who are graduate students at the School of [...]
Program Update: Baroque chamber orchestra to perform suites from Telemann’s Tafelmusik
The Yale School of Music will present Musique de Table: festive baroque orchestral suites from Telemann’s Tafelmusik (1733) on Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall. This program celebrates Telemann’s landmark collection of suites and concertos known as “Tafelmusik,” and written for performance by his Hamburg collegium musicum: [...]
U.S. premiere of Verdery’s Give, dedicated to Ted Kennedy, featured in May 5 Guitar Chamber Music concert
The Yale School of Music will present a concert of Guitar Chamber Music on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall. The concert will showcase graduate performers in music for multiple guitars as well as guitar with other instruments. Benjamin Verdery, the chair of the guitar department at [...]
Joseph Mikolaj ’10MM wins the Solo Competition of the Oratorio Society of New York
Joseph Mikolaj, a student of James Taylor at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and the Yale School of Music, took first prize at the New York Oratorio Society’s Lyndon Woodside Solo Competition on April 10. Mikolaj, a tenor, performed selections from Haydn’s Creation and Mendelssohn’s Elijah. In 1975, the Oratorio Society of New York [...]
