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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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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Announcements

YSM partners with Stauffer Center for Strings, in Cremona, Italy

In March 2022, several School of Music string players will travel to Cremona, Italy, where artisans like Stradivari, Guarneri, and Amati built the instruments for which so much of the classical music repertoire has been composed.
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Mark Steinberg: Haydn and More

Steinberg says strings are more like a vocal group. “There are different voices but there are enough similarities and overlap that they can blend into a single sound,” he says. “At the same time they are incredibly versatile and nimble. You can write all kinds of rhetoric for a string quartet without worrying about limitations so much.”
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Terrence Chin-Loy on new music and more

While tenor Terrence Chin-Loy loves Mozart and Verdi, he’s hoping for a career that includes new music and plenty of it. “I’m excited by all the new works,” he says. “I want to be part of that. The music that drew me into opera was the standard repertoire, especially French. But I want to do new works too.”
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