Yale Collection of Musical Instruments concludes season with Les Délices New Haven debut Apr. 7
“The centuries roll away when the members of Les Délices bring this long-existing music to communicative and sparkling life.” – Classical Source (UK) The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments concludes its 2012–2013 concert season on Sunday, April 7 with the New Haven debut of Les Délices. The esteemed French Baroque ensemble will perform a program called “Age of Indulgence,” featuring music [...]
Quicksilver performs at Collection of Musical Instruments Jan. 27th
“Fresh, technically assured, and rewarding performances.” –Boston Globe The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments presents the baroque ensemble Quicksilver on Sunday, January 27. The newly formed group will present a program called Fantasticus: the extravagant and virtuosic chamber music of 17th-century Germany. The stylus fantasticus was a hallmark of the 17th-century German avant-garde that emphasizes [...]
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 [...]
Yves Henry performs on historical pianos at the Collection Oct. 28
“Smooth virtuosity… a real ability to stage-manage musical line.” –The New York Times The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments presents the New Haven debut of French pianist Yves Henry on Sunday, October 28. The recital will explore the musical colors of pieces by Chopin and Debussy on two of the Collection’s French pianos. Mr. Henry [...]
Flanders Recorder Quartet performs Apr. 29 at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments
Concert explores Venice’s sweet sounds from the Renaissance and Baroque The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments presents the internationally acclaimed Flanders Recorder Quartet in concert on Sunday, April 29, 2012. The program is called Venezia, Il paradiso di dolci suoni (Venice, the paradise of sweet sounds) and explores music from 1400 onward. The concert takes [...]
La Morra performs madrigals and more Feb. 26 at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments
“In a word: delightful.” –Goldberg Magazine The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments presents the acclaimed ensemble La Morra in Lacrime di Leo: A Concert for Pope Leo X. In this program, La Morra imagines that one day, Pope Leo calls upon his musicians to play the best music popular in Italy at the time. 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 [...]
Boston Museum Trio performs French & Baroque music at the Collection Nov. 13
The Boston Museum Trio performs at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments on Sunday, November 13. The program will feature baroque music from French and German composers, including Rameau, Marais, Leclair, Buxtehude, and Bach. The concert will take place at 3 pm at the Collection (15 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven). The members of the Boston [...]
Jory Vinikour brings historical keyboards to life in Oct. 16 concert
Program features French, German harpsichords The concert season at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments opens with a performance by harpsichordist Jory Vinikour on Sunday, October 16. Vinikour, born in the U.S. and active across Europe, will perform music by Bach, Handel, Rameau, and others on French and German harpsichords from the eighteenth century. The [...]
Yale Collection of Musical Instruments joins live streaming
Masaaki Suzuki’s harpsichord recital at the Collection of Musical Instruments on Tuesday, April 26 will stream live at music.yale.edu/media. This is the first time that the School of Music will live-stream from the Collection. Suzuki performs regularly as a conductor as well as a keyboardist. In this recital, he will play music from France, England, [...]
Dorothy and Nicholas Renouf play piano duets at the Collection May 1
Performance features the Collection’s Erard grand piano from 1883 The Yale School of Music presents the piano duo of Dorothy and Nicholas Renouf in a performance on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 3 pm at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments (15 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven). The husband-and-wife duo will play music for piano four [...]
Masaaki Suzuki gives a solo harpsichord recital at the Collection April 26
“Astonishingly beautiful, even glittering, harpsichord playing and sound.” —BBC Music Magazine The Yale School of Music presents a solo harpsichord recital by the conductor and keyboardist Masaaki Suzuki on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 5 pm at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments (15 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven). Since joining the Yale faculty in 2009, [...]
La Viole Luthée: viola da gamba virtuoso Paolo Pandolfo performs at Collection Feb. 27
“One of the most brilliant and poetic of the instrument’s current exponents.” – Gramophone The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments will present the renowned viola da gamba player Paolo Pandolfo and the Norwegian lutenist Thomas Boysen on Sunday, February 27, 2011 at 3 pm. The program, called La Viole Luthée, features viol-lute conversations from Renaissance [...]
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 [...]
Harpsichordist Adam Pearl to make his New Haven debut at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments November 7
Pearl will play the newly restored single-manual harpsichord from 1640, Antwerp The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments will present the renowned harpsichordist Adam Pearl in the opening concert of the season on Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 3 pm. Pearl, who has been praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer for his “virtuosity and daringly original tempo [...]
Ensemble Caprice to explore Bach and the Baroque Gypsies at the Collection of Musical Instruments
“Imaginative, even powerful, and the playing is top-flight.” – New York Times The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments will present the renowned Ensemble Caprice in the opening concert of the season on Sunday, October 10, 2010 at 3 pm. Under the artistic direction of flute and recorder virtuosi Matthias Maute and Sophie Larivière, Ensemble Caprice [...]
Walking tours of Yale’s historic Collection of Musical Instruments
One of the leading resources of its kind, the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments includes nearly one thousand musical instruments from antiquity to the present, from both Western and non-Western traditions. The International Festival of Arts and Ideas, taking place now in New Haven, offers two walking tours of the Collection: Friday, June 18 and [...]
Exhibit of New Yorker Covers Will Explore the ‘Lighter Side of Music’
An exhibit of humorous New Yorker covers on musical subjects will open at the Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments on Wednesday, May 12. Titled “The Lighter Side of Music: New Yorker Covers (1931-2010),” the show features the works of 23 New Yorker artists, including Rose Silver, Abe Birnbaum, Perry Barlow, Mary Petty, Robert Tallon, [...]
Internationally acclaimed Aulos Ensemble performs at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments April 18
“Authentic Baroque performance at its best.” –The New York Times The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments will present the renowned early music ensemble Aulos in the Collection’s last concert of the season on Sunday, April 18, 2010 at 3 pm. Aulos is one of the country’s oldest and most distinguished groups devoted to the performance [...]
“Superb” early music ensemble Sarasa performs at Collection of Musical Instruments
Program of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons interspersed with music of Telemann The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments will present the “all-star” (Boston Globe) early music ensemble Sarasa on Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 3 pm. Led by artistic director and cellist Timothy Merton, a sextet will present a program centered around Vivaldi’s Four Seasons interspersed with [...]
Florilegium opens the concert season at the Collection of Musical Instruments
The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments will open its 2009-10 concert season on Sunday, October 18 at 3 pm. The acclaimed British ensemble Florilegium will be represented by flutist Ashley Solomon and harpsichordist Terence Charlston. The program, entitled “Father, Son, and Godfather,” features music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and Georg Philipp [...]
Luthier Andrew Dipper offers talk on Stradivari
Master luthier and historian of string instruments Andrew Dipper will present a talk entitled, “What Makes a Stradivari: The Mysteries of a Great Violin Maker,” on Thursday, Sep. 17, at 5:30 pm, at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments. Mr. Dipper is a sought-after lecturer and has taught violinmaking and restoration in Cremona and London. [...]
Collection of Musical Instruments names two conservators
William Purvis, interim director of the Collection of Musical Instruments, is pleased to announce that two eminent instrument makers have accepted invitations to serve as consultant Conservators to the Collection. Andrew Dipper, Vice-President of Claire Givens Violins (Minneapolis) will serve as consultant Conservator of String Instruments. A renowned luthier and scholar, Mr. Dipper has performed restoration [...]
