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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Pianist Jian Liu performs musical fantasies Nov. 8
DMA recital features music of Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart & more The Yale School of Music presents the pianist Jian Liu in a Doctor of Musical Arts recital on Thursday, November 8, 2012, at 8 pm. The program is an exploration of musical fantasies, including examples by C.P.E. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Liszt. Liu will open [...]
Dashon Burton wins first prize in Oratorio Society of New York Vocal Competition
Dashon Burton ’11MM took first prize at the 2012 Oratorio Society of New York Vocal Competition yesterday. Two other Yale alumni also earned recognition: Jennifer Feinstein ’11MM took the the Frances MacEachron Award for Fourth Place, and Nacole Palmer ’00BA received both the Richard Westenburg Award and the Johannes Somary Award. As the recipient of [...]
Garth Neustadter ’12MM wins Emmy Award
Original score to PBS documentary was recorded at Yale with student musicians Composer Garth Neustadter ’12MM has won an Emmy Award for his score for the PBS documentary John Muir in the New World, an episode of American Masters. The score was recorded at Yale with members of the Yale Philharmonia, the Yale Symphony Orchestra, [...]
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 [...]
YSM pianists win prizes in Montreal Competition
Lindsay Garritson ’10MM, ’11AD won Second Prize in the 2011 Montreal International Musical Competition. Incoming Artist Diploma student Henry Kramer won the third prize. The competition’s first prize went to Italian pianist Beatrice Rana. In the final round, Garritson played Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16. Kramer performed Ravel’s Concerto in G [...]
Mellasenah Indira Edwards ’91MM to Head Music Department at Baltimore School for the Arts
Mellasenah Indira Edwards ’91MM, a graduate of the Yale School of Music, has been selected to head the music department at the Baltimore School for the Arts (BSA), a school that provides pre-professional training in the arts in the context of a college preparatory curriculum. Dr. Edwards replaces Chris Ford; her position was approved by [...]
Piano alumni find success in summer competitions
Several students and alumni of the Yale School of Music’s piano department have enjoyed success in prestigious international competitions this summer. Ilya Poletaev ’03MM, ’04MMA, ’10DMA (far left in photo) has just won the first prize for piano at the Seventeenth International Bach Competition in Leipzig, Germany. Forty-seven pianists took part in the competition, which [...]
Yale ensembles win silver, bronze medals in Fischoff Competition
Two ensembles from the Yale School of Music won accolades in the 2009 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in South Bend, Ind. The Jasper String Quartet (J Freivogel, violin; Sae Niwa, violin; Sam Quintal, viola; and Rachel Henderson, cello) won the silver medal in the senior string division, and the Lorien Trio (Nicholas DiEugenio, violin; Ashley [...]
Commencement Concert Toasts the Class of 2009
The Yale School of Music presents its annual Commencement Concert on Sunday afternoon, May 24, 2009 at 4:00 pm in Sprague Memorial Hall (College and Wall Streets, New Haven). Admission is free. The hour-long program showcases outstanding graduating performers who have come from around the world to study at Yale. Performers include virtuosi from the [...]
YSM students and graduates win positions
Ji Hye Jung ’09 MM, a student in percussion, has recently been appointed to the faculty at the University of Kansas, where she will teach percussion. In addition, violinist Sun-Mi Chang ’08 AD has won a position with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Korean percussionist Ji Hye Jung burst into the spotlight during the 2006-2007 [...]
Three works selected for the Yale Institute for Music Theatre
Yale School Of Music student Christopher Cerrone ’09 MM is among the writers and composers who will take part in the first Yale Institute For Music Theatre, June 7-21, 2009. The Yale Institute for Music Theatre – Mark Brokaw, Artistic Director; Beth Morrison, Producer – announces the three original music theatre works to receive two-week [...]
Yale in NY offers piano music for four and six hands
Featuring pianists Boris Berman, Claude Frank, Elizabeth Parisot, Wei-Yi Yang The Yale School of Music presents “One and Two Pianos, Four and Six Hands,” a fascinating program of music by Mozart, Schnittke, and Stravinsky, on Wednesday, February 4 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall. Eminent pianists from the School of [...]
Ilya Poletaev wins Grieg Competition in Florida
Ilya Poletaev, a Yale School of Music graduate who now teaches in the Department of Music, has won first prize in the Grieg Festival Young Artists Competition at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida. The competition, which is open to pianists, vocalists, and violinists, is part of a three-day Grieg Festival highlighting important but lesser-known works [...]
Shizuo Kuwahara ’01MM wins 2008 Solti Competition
Frankfurt, November 9, 2008 – The Fourth International Conductors’ Competition Sir Georg Solti has a winner: the 32 year old American Shizuo Kuwahara picked up first prize. Eugene Tzigane (26, also from the USA) received second prize, and Andreas Hotz (27) from Germany came in third place. He was the first German candidate to reach [...]
alumniVentures to “advance the cause of music”
Yale School of Music supports alumni projects with grants totaling $100,000 In June, 2008, Dean Robert Blocker of the Yale School of Music announced alumniVentures, a bold and innovative program that will provide $100,000 in grants to the School’s alumni. In the first year of what Dean Blocker promised to be an annual program, alumniVentures [...]
Alumnus Douglas Knehans named Dean of the College-Conservatory of Music at University of Cincinnati
Anthony J. Perzigian, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Cincinnati, announced in March the appointment of Dr. Douglas Knehans (’93 MMA, ’96 DMA) as dean and professor of music for the College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). A skilled academic administrator and award-winning composer, Douglas Knehans has 27 years of experience [...]
