Explore Music at YSM

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

The Morris Steinert 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 Morris Steinert Collection of Musical Instruments, a series that offers a distinguished slate of performances in a historical context.

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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
Leah Hawkins
Students, Faculty + Alumni

Alumni News | May 2022

Join us in congratulating our accomplished alums, who’ve shared with us news of their recent successes.
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Akiho & Lanzilotti
Students, Faculty + Alumni

Andy Akiho, Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti named Pulitzer Prize finalists

Yale School of Music alums Andy Akiho ’11MM and Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti ’08MM were finalists for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
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Prof. Paul Berry, on Dvořák’s "New World" Symphony

In anticipation of the Yale Philharmonia's May 7 performance of Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony, "From the New World," we spoke with YSM Associate Professor Adjunct of Music History Paul Berry about the piece's origins, influences, and legacy. 
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