Paul Hawkshaw is Professor in the Practice of Music History and Deputy Dean at the Yale School of Music as well as Director of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.
An authority on the music of Anton Bruckner he has edited seven volumes of the composer’s Collected Works (Vienna) which are performed by major orchestras and choruses throughout the world. His articles have appeared in The Musical Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Music and the Oesterreichische Musikzeitschrift, and he wrote the Bruckner Biography for Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians. In 1996 he was awarded the special honor of an invitation from the Austrian National Library, Vienna, to give the commemorative address celebrating the centenary of the composer’s death.
Thank you everyone for an extraordinary summer at the Norfolk Festival 2011. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
I especially want to thank the Artis Quartet, the Leschetizky Trio, the Tokyo String Quartet and all the wonderful performers who collaborated to give us such rich and varied programs of absolutely superb chamber music. And who can forget our student Fellows who performed one stunning concert after another all summer?
We had a number of firsts for Norfolk: (more…)
