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
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Students, Faculty + Alumni

Yale Opera singers work online with industry giants

When Yale Opera Director Gerald Martin Moore began his work at the School of Music six months into the pandemic, he faced as tough a predicament as a new faculty member could. “We knew we couldn’t sing together,” he said. That, on its face, posed a question: What then, could vocalists do?
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Grammy winners
Students, Faculty + Alumni

Faculty, alums win Grammy Awards

Several YSM faculty and alums won Grammy Awards on Sunday, March 14. 
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Belle Skinner
Collection

The Belle Skinner Collection of Musical Instruments: Sixty years at Yale

A tribute to the woman who assembled it
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