Explore Music at YSM

At the Yale School of Music, exploration drives every student’s musical journey.

The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments, the School’s Media Production department, and the Center for Studies in Music Technology are just a few of the resources that help students inform their performances.

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Resounding Brass: Conch Shells to Silver Trumpets
Brass instruments have been used for centuries in many social contexts. This exhibition explores their evolution from natural horns to valved technological wonders.
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Explore Yale’s Resources

From historical instruments to state-of-the-art computer systems, the Yale School of Music offers a vast array of musical, technological, and scholarly resources. Here we offer the tools to support and enhance the creative development of our students and faculty.

Concerts at the Collection

Experience concerts at the Collection of Musical Instruments, a series that offers a distinguished slate of performances in a historical context.

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Photo of a concert taking place at the Collection.
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Research at the Collection

Musical instruments are an invaluable primary source for organologists (specialists in the study of musical instruments), musicologists, instrument makers, performers, and cultural historians. The Collection is committed to granting access to its holdings to qualified researchers as freely as is permitted by good conservation practice.

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Access Yale’s Resources

Yale is home to extraordinary resources, including world-class libraries, graduate-professional schools with which the School of Music is affiliated, and cutting-edge technologies.

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News at YSM
Adriana Zabala as the witness
Students, Faculty + Alumni

Adriana Zabala stars as Susan B. Anthony in new, dramatic song-cycle

Faculty mezzo-soprano Adriana Zabala appears this week in the title role of Steven Mark Kohn’s dramatic song-cycle "The Trial of Susan B. Anthony," which Zabala recently described as “an episode from an epic life.”
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Jonah Ellsworth
Students, Faculty + Alumni

Generation YSM: Meet cellist Jonah Ellsworth '22MMA

Meet cellist and first-year master of musical arts degree candidate Jonah Ellsworth. Jonah spoke with us recently about working with faculty cellist Paul Watkins, reading Kobe Bryant’s autobiography, and more.
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Vivian Kung candid
Students, Faculty + Alumni

Generation YSM: Meet tubist Vivian Kung '22MM

Meet tubist Vivian Kung, a first-year master’s degree candidate who’s studying with Prof. Carol Jantsch. We spoke with Vivian about her interests in music education, drum corps and the pageantry arts, and more.
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