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Bruckner Society of America to award Joseph Kilenyi Medal of Honor to Paul...
The Bruckner Society of America announced this week that Paul Hawkshaw will be awarded the Joseph Kilenyi Medal of Honor. This honor is given to individuals whose work exemplifies the understanding...
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Distinguished Music Educators announced for 2011 Symposium on Music in Schools
A workshop at the 2009 Symposium. The Yale School of Music is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2011 Distinguished Music Educator Awards. The Yale Distinguished Music Educator Award is...
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Noble Piano Trio wins two prizes at Plowman Chamber Music Competition
The Noble Piano Trio, whose members are YSM students Michael Noble, piano; Yeseul Ann, violin; and Alvin Wong, cello, has just won the Edward & Judith Chmielewski Award and the Hugo Vianello...
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Duane Padilla ’99MM and his band win award from Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts
Violinist Duane Padilla ’99MM and his band, the Hot Club of Hulaville, just won a high honor from the Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts: the band’s album Django Would Go was awarded the Hoku Na Hano...
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Jacob Cooper ’10MMA wins Carlsbad Music Festival Composers Competition
The Carlsbad Music Festival, in partnership with ArtPower@UCSD, announced the selection of Jacob Cooper as the 2011 winner of the annual Carlsbad Music Festival Composers Competition. Cooper Cooper was...
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Hermelindo Ruiz ’12MM wins prize in Curso de Música de Santiago de Compostela
Hermelindo Ruiz ’12MM was awarded the Andrés Segovia–José Miguel Ruiz Morales Prize at the Curso de Música de Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Ruiz was selected and invited by the organizers to take part...
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Garth Neustadter ’12MM wins Emmy Award
Composer Garth Neustadter ’12MM has won an Emmy Award for his score for the PBS documentary John Muir in the New World, an episode of American Masters. The score was recorded at Yale with members of...
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Christian Lane ’08MM wins Canadian International Organ Competition
Christian Lane, a graduate of the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music, won the Canadian International Organ Competition (CIOC) this past weekend. The CIOC, which was held in Montreal, is...
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Jasper String Quartet receives Cleveland Quartet Award
Chamber Music America (CMA) announced today that the Jasper String Quartet has been selected to receive the Cleveland Quartet Award. The Jasper Quartet was the graduate quartet-in-residence at the Yale...
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Solomon Liang and In Hwa Lee win Alexander & Buono String Competition
Cellist In Hwa Lee ’06MM, ’07AD and violinist Solomon Liang ’12MM were selected as two of the first prize winners in the Alexander & Buono International String Competition. They will be featured as...
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Associate Dean Michael Yaffe to receive National Guild Service Award
Michael Yaffe will be honored by the National Guild for Community Arts Education this Saturday, November 11. Yaffe, the associate dean of the School of Music, will receive the National Guild Service...
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Michael Yaffe receives national award
National Guild Service Award recognizes exceptional long-term achievement in community arts education The Yale School of Music is pleased to announce that Associate Dean Michael Yaffe was honored with...
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Yale College Class of 1957 receives award
The Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) recently awarded its Outstanding Class Volunteer Engagement and Leadership Award to the Yale College Class of 1957. In its citation, AYA praised the Class “for...
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Former YSM composers among Grammy winners
Awards for alumnus Robert Aldridge, former faculty member Joseph Schwantner Robert Aldridge ’97MMA, ’00DMA won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition at the 54th Annual Grammy...
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Ryan Johnstone ’05 MM named Outstanding Young Bandmaster of the Year at TMEA
At the Texas Music Educators Association Convention earlier this month, Ryan Johnstone ’05 MM was named the Phi Beta Mu Outstanding Young Bandmaster for 2012. The announcement was made on February 9;...
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YSM composers among American Academy of Arts & Letters awardees
The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced recently the eighteen recipients of this year’s awards in music, which total $190,000. The winners were selected by a committee of Academy members....
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Reinis Zarins ’09CERT wins Great Latvian Music Award 2011
Pianist Reinis Zarins ’09CERT was recently awarded the Great Latvian Music Award 2011 in the category of Outstanding Interpretation. The award is the highest state recognition in the field of classical...
View ArticleCongratulations to the 2012 Prize Winners
The School held its annual Honors Dinner last Sunday, April 29. The event paid tribute to distinguished alumni and faculty, and honored outstanding students. Prize List 2012 BRASS AND WOODWINDS The...
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Aaron Jay Kernis Wins 2012 Nemmers Prize
Composer Aaron Jay Kernis, a member of the Yale School of Music faculty, has been selected as the 2012 winner of the Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition. The announcement came today from...
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Yale awards honorary degree to Midori
At Yale’s 311th Commencement exercises this morning, the violinist Midori was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree. In awarding the honorary degree, University President Richard C. Levin said:...
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