Yo-Yo Ma premieres cello concerto by Angel Lam ’10AD
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of music director Robert Spano, will present the New York premiere of Angel Lam’s Awakening from a Disappearing Garden on Saturday, November 7, at Carnegie Hall. The piece, a concerto for cello and orchestra, was commissioned by Carnegie Hall and was first performed in Atlanta Symphony Hall on October 15 and 16, 2009. This is Lam’s third commission from Carnegie Hall, which describes her as “a young composer whose work sounds both Chinese and Western, contemporary but also timeless.” (more…)
Season’s first Lunchtime Chamber Music October 14
The Yale School of Music will present the first Lunchtime Chamber Music concert of the season on Wednesday, October 14 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 comprised of graduate musicians who have come from around the world to study at the Yale School of Music. Violinist Wendy Sharp is director of the chamber music program.
The program will include movements from:
J.S. Bach, Brandenburg Suite, arr. for brass quintet
André Jolivet, Pastorales de Noël for flute, bassoon and harp
Franz Schubert, Trout Quintet for piano and strings
W.A. Mozart, Quintet in E-flat major for piano and winds
Tomaso Albinoni: Concerto “Saint Mark,” arr. for brass quintet
Admission to the concert is free. For more information, visit the Yale School of Music website, or call 203 432-4158.
YSM students perform at Summer Music Sundays
Bartlett Arboretum and Gardens will feature students from the Yale School of Music in their Sunday morning classical music series. Held every Sunday from June 28 through September 6, the summer series takes place on the grounds of the gardens, which are located in Stamford, Conn. In case of rain, the performances will take place in the Visitor Center’s intimate living room. Concerts are free to members or with garden admission.
Sunday Morning Classical Music 10-11am
June 28
July 5, 12, 19, 26
August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
September 6
Bartlett Arboretum and Gardens
School of Music welcomes 100 new students for next year
The Yale School of Music is pleased to welcome next year’s incoming class to New Haven.
Every February, the most talented young musicians from around the world audition for an opportunity to continue their musical training with Yale’s distinguished faculty. The new incoming class is a diverse group of 100 exceptional musicians coming from 58 undergraduate institutions. International students, representing 21 countries from across the globe, make up half the incoming class.
This year’s admissions showed an unusually high yield of 78%, with ten studios – cello, clarinet, composition, conducting, flute, guitar, harp, oboe, trombone, and opera – enrolling 100% of admitted students. Admissions were extremely competitive, with 1270 applications (5% higher than the previous year) and an admission rate of 8.4%.
Violinist Nicholas DiEugenio ’08AD appointed Assistant Professor at Ithaca College
Nicholas DiEugenio ’08AD has been appointed Assistant Professor of Violin at the Ithaca College School of Music. The position is tenure-track and begins this August.
BIOGRAPHY
Praised by the Cleveland Plain Dealer for his “invigorating, silken” playing and “mysterious atmosphere,” violinist Nicholas DiEugenio leads a versatile musical life as a multi-faceted performer of composers from Buxtehude to Carter. This year’s projects include concerts at Town Hall in Seattle and Merkin Hall in New York, as well as concerts at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Recently, Mr. DiEugenio performed Ezra Laderman’s Violin Duets in Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall) along with violinist Katie Hyun. He has premiered chamber works by composers Yevgeniy Sharlat, Matthew Barnson, and Timo Andres at Yale, as well as at Roulette in New York, and by Stephen Gorbos at Cornell. (more…)
Pianists Amy Yang and Andrea Lam to compete in the Cliburn Competition
Two pianists from the Yale School of Music, alumna Andrea Lam ‘04AD and current Artist Diploma student Amy J. Yang, will be among the thirty competitors in the preliminary round of the upcoming Cliburn Competition. Lam and Yang were selected from hundreds of recitals to compete in the prestigious event, which will take place in May. Named for the spectacular pianist Van Cliburn, winner of the First Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow (1958), the competition is one of the most prestigious of its kind worldwide. It was first held in 1962 and has been repeated every four years since then. A complete list of the thirty finalists for 2009 is available on the Cliburn Competition’s website. After the Preliminary Round, twelve pianists will compete in the semifinal round; six will vie for top honors in the final round.
Australian pianist Andrea Lam began her musical training at age five, and at thirteen won the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Quest Competition Viewer Choice Award, which led to debuts with the Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestras. Since then she has played with all of Australia’s major orchestras, and has also performed in Hong Kong, Japan, and the United States, collaborating with such conductors as Michael Christie, Edo de Waart, Alan Gilbert, and Christopher Hogwood. A graduate of Yale University and the Manhattan School of Music, she will record two Mozart concertos with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra in July 2009. More information is available at her website: http://www.andrealam.com
Amy Jiaqi Yang immigrated to the United States with her family in 1995, settling in Houston. First-prize winner of the Corpus Christi Young Artist’s Competition and the Kosciuszko Foundation’s National Chopin Competition, she has performed throughout the United States and in China, Poland, Switzerland, and Turkey. Ms. Yang is an avid chamber musician and has recently participated in the Marlboro Festival, toured with Musicians from Ravinia, and performed with ensemble for former first lady Laura Bush at the White House. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, a master’s degree from Juilliard, and is currently enrolled at Yale, where she also studies sculpture and classical guitar. Audio clips are available at Ms. Yang’s MySpace Music site.
April opens with Lunchtime Chamber Music
The Yale School of Music presents Lunchtime Chamber Music on Wednesday, April 1 at 12:30 in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (470 College St., New Haven). This free event features a colorful variety of ensembles made up of graduate students at the Yale School of Music. Violinist Wendy Sharp is director of the chamber music program.
Admission to the recital is free. For more information, visit the Yale School of Music website, music.yale.edu, or call 203 432-4158.
FOR CALENDAR EDITORS
Yale School of Music presents Lunchtime Chamber Music
Featuring graduate students from the Yale School of Music chamber music program
Wendy Sharp, director
Date/time: April 1, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Venue: Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall
470 College Street, New Haven
Tickets: Free
Phone/web: 203 432-4158 • music.yale.edu
Music program hits high notes
By Elizabeth Benton
New Haven Register
NEW HAVEN — Two weeks ago, fifth-grader Serena Santiago secured a coveted spot in the John C. Daniels School band.
With interest high and instruments limited, Santiago told band director John Miller she’d be dedicated to whatever he had for her.
The pitch worked. He handed her a trombone.
Serena now walks to school 45 minutes early and stays after for 90 minutes each day to practice, said her mother, Wendy Santiago. Then Serena practices again at home. (more…)
