Wind faculty reunite with Keith Wilson
By David Shifrin, professor of clarinet On Sunday, three Yale School of Music faculty members had the opportunity to perform in a chamber music concert in Menlo California called “The Winds of France.” This concert was part of a tour for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and will be repeated today on the [...]
New exhibit explores local 19th-century woodwind makers
A new exhibit called Whirring Lathes, Dulcet Tones: Woodwind Making in Early 19th-Century Connecticut and New York will open on Wednesday, January 25, 2012, at Yale’s Collection of Musical Instruments. Twenty-six woodwind instruments are on display, including flageolets, fifes, a piccolo, flutes, clarinets, and a bassoon. The most unusual instrument featured in the exhibit is [...]
Smithsonian Chamber Players perform at Collection of Musical Instruments January 23
Program features Mozart and Beethoven quintets for piano and winds The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments will present the Smithsonian Chamber Players in their Collection debut concert on Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 3 pm. The players – Marc Schachman, oboe; Eric Hoeprich, clarinet; Andrew Schwartz, bassoon; and Kenneth Slowik, fortepiano – will be joined [...]
Imani Winds performs with Jasper String Quartet
The Grammy-nominated Imani Winds will join guest ensemble the Jasper String Quartet for a concert on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 8 pm in Sprague Hall (470 College Street, New Haven). The renowned wind quintet will perform a colorful variety of music – Bozza’s Scherzo for Wind Quintet, Ligeti’s Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet, and [...]
YSM students successful in 2009 Koussevitzky Young Artists Awards
Flutist Yoobin Son ’09MM won second prize and clarinetist Paul Won Jin Cho ’09MM took home third in the 2009 Koussevitzky Young Artists Awards. Cho performed the Nielsen Clarinet Concerto, the same piece with which he recently won the Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition at Yale. Every spring, the Musicians Club of New York holds a [...]
