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Carrie Koffman, lecturer in applied saxophone at YSM, and composer and YSM alum Roshanne Etezady ’99MM are leading a project of the North American Saxophone Alliance that’s focused on education and gender equity and involves a new commission. The Alliance has commissioned Etezady for a new work for virtuosic soloist and middle school band that will give students who are at an early stage in their musical life the rare and valuable opportunity to engage with top performers.

With insight and endeavor she sought for the treasures in [her] collection. She chose only the best; sham or imitation she would never tolerate in anything… Fanny Reed Hammond (W. Skinner 1933, vii)

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

Bass-baritone Dashon Burton ’11MM won a Grammy Award in the “Best Classical Solo Vocal Album” category for his recording, with soprano Sarah Brailey and the Experiential Chorus and Orchestra led by conductor James Blachly, of Ethel Smyth’s The Prison.

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?

The Thalea String Quartet (Norfolk '19) has been selected as the winner of Fischoff’s 2021 Ann Divine Educator Award which recognizes the educational outreach work of Fischoff Competition alumni who have demonstrated outstanding and imaginative programming for children and youth in the United States.

We are pleased to announce that Timothy A. Steinert ’82BA and his wife, Lixia Zhang, have made a major gift to the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments. Mr. Steinert is the great-great-grandson of Morris Steinert, whose donation of musical instruments to Yale in 1900 established the Collection and who founded the New Haven Symphony in 1894. In addition to Timothy, descendants of Morris Steinert who have attended Yale include Alan Steinert ’23BA, John A. Steinert ’93MBA, and Alexandra Steinert-Evoy ’90MDiv.

The eminent violinist Augustin Hadelich will join the Yale School of Music in fall 2021 as a distinguished member of the violin faculty. Mr. Hadelich will work initially with four students while offering master classes to all YSM violinists and string players. Mr. Hadelich’s “credentials are without equal,” YSM faculty violinist Ani Kavafian said.

The Yale School of Music is excited to welcome violinist Tai Murray to its distinguished faculty. Ms. Murray will serve as full-time assistant professor, adjunct, of violin, teaching applied violin and coaching chamber music at YSM.

Dr. Albert R. Lee has been appointed Associate Professor of Music, Adjunct and the school’s inaugural Director of Equity, Belonging, and Student Life. He will teach two courses annually in the academic-studies area and will guide the school as it works with the university on long-term commitments to belonging. Dr. Lee will contribute to the development of the curriculum, particularly as relates to equity and belonging and participate in the admissions process.