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YSM alums receive awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Balch and Gilbertson

Katherine Balch (photo by Lanz Photography), left, and Michael Gilbertson (photo by Christina Simpson)

Two Yale School of Music alums have received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Composer Katherine Balch ’16MM, who will join the YSM faculty in July as Visiting Assistant Professor, Adjunct, of Composition, received a $10,000 Wladimir and Rhoda Lakond Award in Music. Composer Michael Gilbertson ’13MM ’21DMA received a $15,000 Goddard Lieberson Fellowship in Music, an award that was also received by Yale College alum Eric Nathan ’06BA.

Eighteen awardees were identified by a committee comprised of Academy members Chen Yi (chair), John Corigliano, Stephen Hartke, George Lewis, Chinary Ung, and YSM alums Augusta Read Thomas MM, and Julia Wolfe ’86MM. The awards will be formally presented in May.

Read the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ announcement here, and join us in congratulating our alums!