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Eleven alumniVentures awards announced
Dean Robert Blocker has announced the 2012 alumniVentures awards. Eleven grants were awarded, ranging from $2,000 to $7,500 and totaling $51,000. In thanking the alumni committee that recommended the...
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Sean Chen ’14AD wins third prize in Cliburn Competition
Sean Chen ’14AD has been awarded Third Prize (Crystal Award) in the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. In the final round, he played two concertos with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra...
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Classical Music Broadcast Less than two months after winning the American Pianists Association’s 2013 Christel DeHaan Classical Fellowship, one of the most lucrative prizes available to an American...
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Jihoon Shin ’09MM wins first prize in Severino Gazzelloni International Flute...
Flutist Jihoon Shin ’09MM was the unanimous choice for first prize in the second Severino Gazzelloni International Flute Competition. The event was held August 26–31, 2013 in Roccasecca, Italy. The...
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Peter Gelb receives Sanford Medal at Convocation
Peter Gelb, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera, was awarded the Samuel Simons Sanford Award — the highest honor that the School of Music can bestow—at Convocation on Monday, September 9. Below...
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Michael Mizrahi ’08DMA receives Lawrence Award for Excellence in Creative...
Pianist Michael Mizrahi ’08DMA, assistant professor of music at Lawrence University, received the Lawrence Award for Excellence in Creative Activity. Established in 2006, the award recognizes...
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Christopher Shepard ’92MM wins Herford Prize
This fall, choral conductor Dr. Christopher Shepard ‘92MM was awarded the 2012 Julius Herford Dissertation Prize for his dissertation, “Evolution and Revolution: J.S. Bach’s Mass in B minor, BWV232 in...
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Henry Kramer receives Foote Award from Harvard Musical Association
The Harvard Musical Association has selected pianist Henry Kramer ’13 AD, ’15 MMA to receive the prestigious Foote Prize. The Arthur W. Foote Prize is awarded to performer(s) of the highest musical...
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Yale alumni victorious at Grammys
Roomful of Teeth On January 26, 2014, several Yale School of Music alumni won Grammy awards. Thomas Newman ’77BA, ’78MM won Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for the James Bond film Skyfall, and...
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Fernando Buide ’13DMA wins Spanish Aeos-BBVA composition prize
Composer Fernando Buide ’09 MMA, ’13 DMA was awarded the seventh edition of the Aeos-BBVA composition prize for his piece “Fragmentos del Satiricón.” The award includes a cash prize and the performance...
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Aaron Jay Kernis receives A.I. duPont Composer’s Award
Faculty composer Aaron Jay Kernis has recently received the 2014 A.I. duPont Composer’s Award from the Delaware Symphony Orchestra. He has also been selected for induction into the American Classical...
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Charles Richard-Hamelin ’13 MM wins third prize in Seoul International Music...
On March 30, 2014, alumnus Charles Richard-Hamelin ’13MM was awarded the third prize in the 10th Seoul International Music Competition. He also received the special prize for the Best Performance of a...
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Alumna Sarah Kirkland Snider wins DSO Female Composers’ Award
Sarah Kirkland Snider ’05 MM, ’06 AD has been awarded the seventh annual Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Award for Female Composers from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO). Snider, who was chosen from...
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“Why Music?” video wins awards
The School of Music’s overture video “Why Music?” is the winner of two Internet Advertising Competition Awards. The video won Best Education Online Video and Best Music Online Video in the competition...
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YSM website nominated for Webby Award
The Yale School of Music’s new website was nominated for a Webby Award. The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences announced the nominees on Tuesday, April 8. YSM is one of five nominees...
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Ted Hearne awarded New Voices residency
Yale School of Music alumnus Ted Hearne ’08 MM, ’09 MMA was named the third annual New Voices resident composer by the San Francisco Symphony, the New World Symphony, and the publishing company Boosey...
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Yale School of Music alumni receive Morton Gould Young Composer Awards
Garth Neustadter ’12MM On March 31, 2014, the ASCAP Foundation announced the recipients of the 2014 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. The program grants monetary awards to composers...
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Michael Noble ’12 MM, ’14 MMA wins award to study in Belgium
Pianist Michael Noble ’12 MM, ’14 MMA has been awarded a fellowship from the Belgian American Educational Foundation. Each year, the foundation awards up to eight fellowships worth $25,000 to enable...
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Christopher Cerrone ’10MMA named finalist for Pulitzer Prize
Composition graduate Christopher Cerrone ’10MMA was recently named as a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in music. John Luther Adams won the prize for his composition Become Ocean; the other...
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Barbora Kolarova ’14MM, ’15AD wins second prize in International Artist...
Violinist Barbora Kolářová ’14MM, ’15AD was awarded second prize at the annual New York International Artist Association Competition. She will perform in the winners’ concert in Weill Recital Hall at...
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Juan Carlos Fernández Nieto wins second prize in Jaén International Piano...
Juan Carlos Fernández Nieto ’09 MM, ’10 AD won second prize in the prestigious 56th Jaén International Piano Competition. In the final round, Fernández Nieto performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5...
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Yale awards Honorary Doctor of Music degrees to Joseph Polisi, Ralph Stanley
Joseph Polisi At Yale’s 313th Commencement Exercises on Monday, May 19, the University awarded honorary degrees to twelve “individuals who have achieved distinction in their fields.” Among these awards...
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Marianna Prjevalskaya wins New Orleans International Piano Competition
Marianna Prjevalskaya ’07MM, ’10AD won the gold medal in the 2014 New Orleans International Piano Competition. In addition to a $15,000 cash award, the prize includes opportunities including a recital...
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Andy Akiho ’11 MM wins ACO’s Underwood Emerging Composer Commission
Composer Andy Akiho has been named the winner of the American Composers Orchestra’s 2014 Annual Underwood Emerging Composers Commission. Chosen from seven finalists during ACO’s 23rd annual Underwood...
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Alumni duo New Morse Code receives grant from Chamber Music America
New Morse Code The cello/percussion duo New Morse Code has been awarded a 2014 Classical Commissioning Grant from Chamber Music America. The duo — made up of percussionist Michael Compitello ’09MM,...
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Christopher Cerrone ’14DMA wins ASCAP’s Leonard Bernstein Award
Christopher Cerrone Composer Christopher Cerrone, who was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Music, received the ASCAP Foundation’s Leonard Bernstein Award. Leonard Bernstein’s daughter Jamie...
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Yale alumni win awards from American Academy of Arts and Letters
Harold Meltzer | Photo by Emily Greta Tabourin The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced today the recipients of this year’s awards in music. Several Yale alumni are among the winners. The...
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Sean Chen awarded fellowship for career development from Leonore Annenberg Fund
Pianist Sean Chen ’14AD is among five emerging artists who will receive grants from the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund for the Performing and Visual Arts. The fund awards $50,000 a year for up to...
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Alumna Polina Nazaykinskaya awarded Soros Fellowship for New Americans
Composer Polina Nazaykinskaya ’10 MM, ’13 AD has been awarded the 2015 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. She is one of thirty selected from a wide variety of fields to receive the...
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Julia Wolfe ’86 MM wins Pulitzer Prize in Music
Julia Wolfe | Photo by Peter Serling Julia Wolfe ’86 MM has won the Pulitzer Prize for music for her piece Anthracite Fields. The Pulitzer jury described the piece as “a powerful oratorio for chorus...
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Christopher Cerrone ’14 DMA wins Rome Prize
Composition alumnus Christopher Cerrone has been named the winner of the Samuel Barber Rome Prize for 2015–2016. The awards were announced recently by the American Academy in Rome. The annual Rome...
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Noël Wan wins second prize in Korea International Harp Competition
The first-ever Korea International Harp Competition was held in Seoul May 23–26, 2015. In the Young Professional Division, Noël Wan ’16 MM won second prize. Wan is a student of June Han at the Yale...
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Pianist Ronaldo Rolim wins third prize in Geza Anda International Competition
Pianist Rolando Rolim won both the third prize and the Schumann prize at the Géza Anda International Competition. Rolim is a DMA candidate at the Yale School of Muic, where he studies with Boris...
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League of American Orchestras awards Gold Baton to Anne-Marie Soulliere
Mark Volpe presents the Gold Baton to Anne-Marie Soullière. Photo by Nannette Bedway Anne-Marie Soullière, a member of the Yale School of Music’s Board of Advisors, was awarded the Gold Baton at the...
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William Gardiner wins American Composers Forum National Composition Contest
Composer William Gardiner ’13 MM, ’15 MMA has been named one of three winners of the 2015 American Composers Forum National Composition Contest. The winners were announced by the American Composers...
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Gregory Spears ’02 MM wins Carlos Surinach Commission
The BMI Foundation has announced that composer Gregory Spears ’02 MM is one of two 2015 winners of the Carlos Surinach Commissions. The commissions program funds the creation of new works by former...
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David Lang named Chevalier of France’s Order of Arts and Letters
David Lang, composer Composer and YSM faculty member David Lang ’83 MMA, ’89 DMA has been awarded the insignia of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture and...
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Charles Richard-Hamelin wins silver in Chopin Competition
Canadian pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin won silver at the prestigious 17th International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland. He also won the prize for the best performance of a...
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Yale recognizes Music in Schools Initiative with Linda K. Lorimer Award
On Oct. 28, President Salovey and Linda K. Lorimer presented 35 Yale staff members representing nine key initiatives with the Linda K. Lorimer Award for staff excellence and distinguished service to...
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Ian Tuski honored with Yale-Jefferson Public Service Award
Tuski teaches in the New Haven Public Schools Ian Tuski ’15 MM is to be honored with a Yale-Jefferson Public Service Award. The awards recognize those who inspire the Yale community through innovative,...
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Willie Ruff among Greater New Haven Arts Council honorees
Willie Ruff New Haven Register | By Joe Amarante There’s something special about the art of Susan Clinard, who is quick to point out that there’s something very special about art in general — as a...
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YDN: Jazz pioneer receives lifetime achievement award
Photo by Harold Shapiro Yale Daily News | By Maya Chandra Yale School of Music professor Willie Ruff ’53 YSM ’54 was presented with the C. Newton Schenck III Award for Lifetime Achievement award at the...
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Willie Ruff is called a “legend in his own time” at Arts Council Awards
Zip06.com | By Amy J. Barry, Correspondent Willie Ruff, a world-renowned jazz musician and educator who has lived in Branford for more than 30 years, is a “legend in his own time,” says Cynthia Clair,...
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Brian Vu wins Southeast Regional Finals of the Metropolitan Opera National...
Brian Vu ’14 MM, ’15 AD competed in the Southeast Regional Finals of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in Atlanta in early February and won first place. He will move on to the National...
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Natalie Dietterich wins ASCAP Morton Gould Award
Natalie Dietterich Natalie Dietterich ’16 MM, has been named one of the receipients of the 2016 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. In addition to being recognized as one of this year’s winners,...
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Domenic Salerni joins Dalí Quartet and wins silver in the M-Prize Competition
Domenic Salerni Domenic Salerni ’11 MM has been appointed first violinist of the Dalí Quartet, an ensemble that is known particularly for its excellence in Latin-American repertoire. Furthermore, as a...
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YSM composers win American Academy of Arts and Letters awards
Hilary Purrington Three YSM alumni composers and one current student have received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the organization announced last month. Awardees were selected by...
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YSM Alumni News | May 2018
Pianist Tanya Bannister CERT was named president of the Concert Artists Guild. She succeeds Richard S. Weinert, who plans to retire in June after 18 years at the organization. Violinist Qi Cao ’10MM...
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Hurun Report recognizes YSM with New York-China Award
YSM Dean Robert Blocker In January, YSM Dean Robert Blocker accepted an award, on behalf of the School of Music, from the Hurun Report. The Shanghai-based media company presented New York-China Awards...
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Prizes awarded at 2019 Honors Banquet
Retiring Professor of Trumpet Allan Dean, left, and School of Music Dean Robert Blocker On Sunday, May 5, the School of Music held its annual Honors Banquet during which Dean Robert Blocker presented...
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