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Chelsea Chen ’09AD awarded 2009 Lili Boulanger Memorial Prize
Chelsea Chen, an Artist Diploma candidate at Yale University, has been awarded the 2009 Lili Boulanger Memorial Prize of $5000. The prize is given annually to an outstanding young musician under the...
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David Kurtz ’80MM garners three Emmy nominations
David Kurtz, right, receiving the School of Music Alumni Certificate of Merit in 2004, with Dean Robert Blocker David Kurtz ’80MM, a composer and lyricist, has been nominated for three Emmy Awards. One...
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Student prizes awarded at YSM Annual Dinner
The School of Music held its annual dinner on May 3, paying tribute to distinguished alumni and honoring outstanding students. 2009 Student Prizes Awarded at the Yale School of Music Honors Dinner May...
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Stephen Adams ’59 to receive Yale Medal
Stephen Adams ’59 and Denise Adams Among the recipients of this year’s Yale Medal is Stephen Adams ’59, a member of the School of Music’s Board of Visitors and a donor whose generosity has transformed...
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Ted Hearne ’09MMA wins Gaudeamus Prize
Gaudeamus Prize winner Ted Hearne, left, and runner-up Toru Nakatani At the final concert of the International Gaudeamus Music Week 2009, which took place in Amsterdam September 7-12, the Gaudeamus...
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Stephen Adams ’59 awarded Yale Medal
Among the recipients of this year’s Yale Medal is Stephen Adams ’59, a member of the School of Music’s Board of Visitors and a donor whose generosity has transformed the School. The medal will be...
View ArticleMichael Compitello ’09MM receives Fulbright
Michael Compitello, a graduate of the Yale School of Music, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student scholarship to Germany in Musical Instrument Training, the United States Department of State and...
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Amphion Quartet wins awards at the Plowman Chamber Music Competition
Photo courtesy of Sammie Scheer The Amphion String Quartet – whose members include three alumni of the Yale School of Music – has won the Dr. Harry & Lina Berrier First Place for Piano &...
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Three YSM graduate composers win Morton Gould/ASCAP awards
Adrian Knight ’11 Samuel Adams ’10MM, Christopher Cerrone ’10MMA, and Adrian Knight ’11MM are all among this year’s winners of the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards . Yale College...
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Derrick Wang ’08MM wins BMI Student Composer Award for short opera
Derrick Wang has been named a winner in the 58th Annual BMI Student Composer Awards, which “recognize superior creative talent” in music composition. Wang’s BMI award-winning work is the ten-minute,...
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Composer David Kurtz ’80MM wins two Emmy Awards
Kurtz at the School of Music in 2004, with Dean Robert Blocker When the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the winners of the 37th annual Emmy® Awards, Yale School of Music...
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Emil Khudyev ’11MM awarded prize from Tanglewood
Emil Khudyev. Photo by Bob Handelman. Clarinetist Emil Khudyev ’11MM was awarded the 2010 Gino B. Cioffi Memorial Prize. The award is one of a limited number of annual prizes given by the Tanglewood...
View ArticleVivian Perlis named Educator of the Year by Musical America
Musical America Announces 2011 Awards for Anne-Sophie Mutter, Thomas Adès, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Simon Keenlyside, and Perlis The publication Musical America, now in its third century as an...
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Mingzhu Wang ’07MM wins flute division of Città di Chieri Competition
Flutist Mingzhu Wang ’07MM has been in Zurich, Switzerland, since February, furthering her musical studies at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste with Prof. Phillipe Racine. On November 5, she won the fst...
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Clarinetist Emil Khudyev ’11MM wins Vandoren Emerging Artist Award
Emil Khudyev, right, with Professor David Shifrin. <br/> Photo by Bob Handelman. Emil Khudyev was named the winner of the classical clarinet division of the inaugural Vandoren Emerging Artist...
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Paul Jacobs ’02MM, ’03AD wins Grammy for Messiaen recording
Paul Jacobs. Photo by Stefan Cohen. Paul Jacobs ’02MM, ’03AD was awarded a Grammy on Sunday by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He won in the category of Best Instrumental Soloist...
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Dean Blocker among Central Conservatory honorees in Beijing
Dean Blocker accepts his award from Wang Cizhao, the president of the Central Conservatory of Music. Last fall, the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China honored Dean Robert Blocker at a...
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Four YSM composers among award recipients from American Academy of Arts and...
Jay Wadley The American Academy of Arts and Letters recently announced the recipients of this year’s awards in music. Among the fifteen recipients of the five different awards were four current and...
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Duo Atapine-Park Wins Second Prize at Vittorio Gui Competition
On February 19th, 2011 cellist Dmitri Atapine (’10 DMA, ’06 AD, ’05 MMA) and pianist Adela Hyeyeon Park (’05 MM, ’06 AD) received the Second Prize at the prestigious Premio Vittorio Gui International...
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Daewon Music Awards Grand Prize given to Hyo Kang
Hyo Kang, a member of the YSM violin faculty, was honored with the Daewon Music Awards Grand Prize, the most prestigious music award in Korea, for his contribution to the field of music through his...
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