Music at Yale Fall/Winter 2018

Music at Yale Fall 2018/Winter 2019

Cellist Aldo Parisot retires after 60 years at YSM At Norfolk, the next generation has arrived 1

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FROM THE DEAN STAFF & FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

HIGHLIGHTS 07 School prizes awarded to students at annual Honors Banquet 08 Expression of values lauded at Commencement

09 Emeriti faculty and cellist Carter Brey ’79 honored at Convocation

ANNOUNCEMENTS

usic in Schools Initiative receives M Ivy Award

21 Willie Ruff awarded honorary doctorate 21 Two alumni named co-finalists for Pulitzer Prize

FEATURES 22 Cellist Aldo Parisot retires after 60 years at YSM 28 At Norfolk, the next generation has arrived

NEWS 12 Concerts

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CLASS NOTES

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RECORDINGS & PUBLICATIONS

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IN MEMORIAM

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YSM ALUMNI FUND

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HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

14 Faculty 16 Students

RETIREMENTS 18 Paul Hawkshaw: the embodiment of the School of Music 19 Joan Panetti: a transformative figure at YSM

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FROM THE DEAN

Dear YSM alumni and friends, In these pages, you will discover the transitions that characterize the School of Music at this significant time in its history. Such a constellation of beginnings and endings is succinctly stated by Lucius Annaeus Seneca: “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”

The legacy of distinguished and inspired teaching at YSM extends from its founding in 1894 through the present day. The emeriti faculty featured in this issue of Music at Yale — Paul Hawkshaw, Joan Panetti, and Aldo Parisot — exemplify the core values that have always been evident in YSM studios, classrooms, and concert spaces — artistic excellence, intellectual curiosity, and, in recent decades, cultural leadership. By the time you read this, four more YSM faculty will have announced their retirements — Richard Cross, Allan Dean, Thomas Murray, and Doris Yarick-Cross. With the recent retirements of Peter Frankl and Willie Ruff, these nine colleagues collectively represent more than three centuries of teaching and service to Yale.

From this “beginning’s end” comes an extraordinary opportunity to make faculty appointments that will be transformative for the future of our School, the University, and indeed our chosen discipline. The appointment of faculty is the most important responsibility for any educational institution, and the sheer number of faculty positions that we will fill in the coming two years measurably heightens the seriousness of our daunting task. The faculty who will join us in the near future will benefit not only from the insightful work of their predecessors, but also from a recently begun strategic planning initiative that will guide us as we explore new perspectives on teaching and learning.

This initiative seeks to align artistic and educational programs, both degree-granting and extracurricular, with financial planning and capital-campaign priorities, as well as facility and personnel needs, to support our mission.

At the center of this endeavor are the students who elect to pursue their advanced musical studies at Yale. These ascendant young musicians are poised to become some of the world’s most celebrated artists. What, we must ask, should we do to assist each student in launching a meaningful career in music? To begin, we will focus on crafting a curriculum designed to exercise our students’ full musical and intellectual promise. While effective planning typically requires a willingness to accept change, a bold and imaginative vision will transform the lives of all of us and our constituencies. The constant will be that YSM is a place where civility, respect, and tolerance reside as we look forward to better reflecting, in our students, faculty, and staff, the demographics of our community, our nation, and the wider world.

Our important work ahead will intersect with YSM’s 125 th anniversary. How fortuitous it is for us to look to the past with pride and to the future with hope. Heartfelt thanks to each of you for your encouragement and support of YSM and your many contributions to music as a discipline and to your communities as cultural leaders.

Warmest regards,

Robert Blocker

The Henry and Lucy Moses Dean of Music 4

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STAFF & FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

Katie Darr Director of Development

Megan Doran Admissions and Alumni Affairs Coordinator

Sir Jonathan Mills Visiting Professor of Music

In July, the School welcomed Katie Darr as its new Director of Development. Darr previously served as Associate Director of the Yale College Alumni Fund at the University’s Office of Development. There, Darr increased giving and led several successful fundraising initiatives.

She earned a bachelor of arts degree in psychology from Huntington University, in Indiana, and a master of social work degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Darr arrived at YSM with a “passion for music,” having sung in school choirs, competed in vocal competitions, and played piano and oboe.

In August, Megan Doran joined the YSM staff as Admissions and Alumni Affairs Coordinator.

She came to the School from the Hill-Stead Museum, in Farmington, Conn., where she worked on the organization’s marketing and community engagement efforts. Doran earned a bachelor of music degree in flute performance and a master of science degree in performing arts leadership and management from the Shenandoah University Conservatory. In addition to relevant professional experience, Doran comes to YSM having participated in the Summer Arts Leadership Institute at the American College of Greece, in Athens.

In fall 2018, Sir Jonathan Mills returned to the School of Music to present a series of three lectures that collectively addressed “The Role of Culture in the Contemporary World.”

Mills’ recent series of talks served as an extension of his 2017 Trumbull Fellow Lectures. This past fall, Mills gave talks at three University institutions: “Culture and the Gift Economy,” at the Jackson Institute, exhorted artists to become resources rather than commodities; “Music and the Sacred Dimensions of Time,” at the Institute of Sacred Music/ Yale Divinity School, argued that music has a unique capacity to enable us to experience time as a heightened phenomenon; and “Culture and Well-being: Connections Between Health and Music,” at the Yale School of Public Health, encouraged artists to consider their obligations to the well-being of the communities in which they live and work.

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Peter Serkin Visiting Professor of Piano

Christy Thomas Visiting Professor of Music History

Paul Watkins Visiting Professor of Cello

The eminent pianist Peter Serkin joined the YSM faculty as a Visiting Professor of Piano for the 2018-2019 academic year. Serkin’s performances with symphony orchestras, in recital appearances and chamber music collaborations, and on recordings have been lauded worldwide for decades. He is a dedicated chamber musician, having been a founding member of TASHI (known later as the Tashi Quartet), has appeared with the world’s major artists and orchestras, and is an avid exponent of the music of many of the 20 th and 21 st centuries’ most important composers. He also teaches at the Bard College Conservatory of Music.

A Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at YSM, Christy Thomas ’12MA ’12MPhil ’16PhD has previously held faculty positions at Bowdoin College and Bates College. She earned her Ph.D. with distinction in music history from Yale University. Originally from Baltimore, Thomas also holds undergraduate degrees in music, art history, and history. Her broad research interests include the history and theory of opera, reception studies, cultural history, the history of media technologies, and the theoretical and conceptual issues of performance and mediation. As a former fellow at the Yale Center for Teaching and Learning, she is dedicated to graduate and postdoctoral professional development and to pedagogical training.

A Visiting Professor of Cello for the 2018-2019 academic year, Paul Watkins enjoys a distinguished career as concerto soloist, chamber musician, and conductor. He has worked with many major orchestras, including the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Netherlands Philharmonic, Melbourne Symphony, and the major British orchestras. Watkins was a member of the Nash Ensemble from 1997 until 2013, when he joined the Emerson String Quartet. He is a regular guest at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and, since 2014, has been Artistic Director of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival. His conducting highlights include appearances with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, and Minnesota Orchestra. He has been the Music Director of the English Chamber Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Ulster Orchestra.

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HONORS BANQUET

Winners of the Yale School of Music Alumni Association Prize, with faculty and staff.

School prizes awarded to students at annual Honors Banquet Before presenting Student Prizes at the School’s annual Honors Banquet in May, Dean Robert Blocker told graduating students that he looks forward to hearing their music in venues around the world. The awards recognized excellence achieved by students from all areas of study.

Blocker congratulated students who won or placed at competitions during the 2017-2018 academic year and acknowledged YSM’s Music in Schools Initiative, whose 8

leadership — Director Rubén Rodríguez ’11MM, Associate Dean Michael Yaffe, and Yaffe’s assistant, Rachel Glodo ’13BA — was recognized by the University in April with an Ivy Award for the work the program does at Yale and in the New Haven community. “Yale has no finer community engagement program than Music in Schools,” Blocker said.

At the end of the night, Blocker expressed his gratitude to students, faculty, and staff for

a wonderful year. “As one who at different moments has been touched by your talent and compassion,” he said, “I want to thank you on behalf of a wider audience.”

COMMENCEMENT

Expression of values lauded at Commencement In his remarks to the Class of 2018 during the School of Music’s 125 th Commencement in May, Dean Robert Blocker recognized “the ways that [students and alumni] have been proponents of artistry, leadership, and social justice.”

Award. Van Horn sang “Ecco il mondo” from Arrigo Boito’s Mefistofele, with pianist Timothy Shaindlin (YSM Lecturer in Voice and Opera), and offered the graduating class a few words of encouragement.

Blocker, in his speech Creating Cacophonous Counterpoint, lauded members of the graduating class for explicitly sharing their values. He recognized students for organizing and presenting concerts that supported the efforts of such organizations as Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services, the National TPS Alliance, Everytown for Gun Safety, and the Connecticut chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. Blocker also praised the students who established OutLoud, YSM’s first LGBTQ+ affinity group.

Commencement saw Blocker present the Ian Mininberg Distinguished Service Award to composer and YSM alumna Lori Laitman ’75BA ’76MM, along with three special, student prizes. Pianist Hilda Huang ’17BS ’19MM received the Harriet Gibbs Fox Memorial Prize, which is given to a student who has achieved the highest grade-point average during the first year at the School of Music; pianist Szymon Nehring ’19AD received the Horatio Parker Memorial Prize, which is given to a student selected by the faculty as best fulfilling Dean Parker’s lofty musical ideals; and violinist Sophia Mockler ’17MM ’18MMA received the Dean’s Prize, the School’s highest excellence award, which is given to a member of the graduating class who is selected by the Dean in consultation with the faculty.

“I am encouraged by your actions, by your virtues,” Blocker said. “I am encouraged by your hearts.

And I think that in your hands, humanity has a better chance because of what you will give to us and to others you touch all through the world.”

The ceremony featured a performance by Yale Opera program alumnus Christian Van Horn ’02MM ’03AD, who, earlier this year, received the Richard Tucker Music Foundation’s prestigious Richard Tucker

As is tradition, faculty, students, and staff in attendance sang Schubert’s An die Musik, with faculty clarinetist David Shifrin and faculty pianist and Deputy Dean Melvin Chen ’91BS performing instrumental parts.

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CONVOCATION

Emeriti faculty and cellist Carter Brey ’79 honored at Convocation

Left: Dean Robert Blocker with Carter Brey ’79; right: Blocker with Yale University Bands Director Thomas Duffy.

In his 2018 Convocation speech, Enduring Gifts, School of Music Dean Robert Blocker told incoming and returning students, “We sit together in the midst of privilege.” He quoted President John F. Kennedy, who, at Amherst College in October 1963, said, “with privilege goes responsibility,” and Leonard Bernstein, who told The Los Angeles Times in 1972, “art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people.” Blocker’s charge was straightforward: Pass on what you have been given.

That theme underscored Blocker’s tributes to emeriti faculty members Paul Hawkshaw, a musicologist who served variously as Acting, Deputy, and Associate Dean at YSM, and as Director of the Norfolk 10

Chamber Music Festival; Joan Panetti ’67MM ’73MMA ’74DMA, a composer and pianist who developed the School’s Hearing course and preceded Hawkshaw as Director at Norfolk; and internationally celebrated cellist Aldo Parisot ’48 ’70MAH. For more than 130 years, collectively, Hawkshaw, Panetti, and Parisot passed their scholarly and pedagogical wisdom on to YSM students. Each retired in 2018.

Blocker also recognized the achievements of New York Philharmonic Principal Cellist Carter Brey ’79, who studied with Parisot. Presenting Brey with the School’s Ian Mininberg Distinguished Service Award, Blocker acknowledged “a humanity that is uncommon.”

Brey performed two movements of Chopin’s Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65, with pianist

Wendy Chen. Other performers included faculty bassoonist Frank Morelli and Panetti, faculty tenor James Taylor and lutenist Grant Herreid, and student trumpeter Chloe Swindler ’19MM and pianist Minyoung Kang.

YSM Professor (adjunct) of Music Thomas Duffy accepted the School’s Cultural Leadership Citation on behalf of the Yale University Bands. Duffy directs the undergraduate ensembles, which have strong ties to the School’s history. Past recipients of the Cultural Leadership Citation include YSM Associate Dean Michael Yaffe, former Yale Collection of Musical Instruments Curator William Nicholas Renouf ’71MMA, and Dr. Regina Lilly-Warner, a longtime educator in the New Haven Public Schools, among others.

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NEWS

Concerts

2018-2019 season kicks off with sensational performances On back-to-back nights, the Oneppo Chamber Music Series and the Yale Philharmonia delivered remarkable performances by School of Music artists. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the premiere of The Soldier’s Tale, the School of Music, in collaboration with the School of Drama, staged Stravinsky’s theatrical chamber work for a sold-out audience in Morse Recital Hall. A reprise of a 2014 production The New York Times called “fresh, funny and aptly ominous,” the September 27 Oneppo Chamber Music Series

performance, which was repeated on September 30 at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, featured Liz Diamond’s translation of C.F. Ramuz’s text, an ensemble of student and faculty musicians, and actors from the School of Drama.

The Yale Philharmonia opened its season on September 28 with a program of music inspired by the words and works of Shakespeare. “There is a lot of extraordinary music that was inspired by arguably the greatest 12

poet of all time,” Principal Conductor Peter Oundjian said.

“It’s the element of curiosity and adventure that make this kind of program so interesting.” The season-opening concert featured Berlioz’s Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict, which is based on the Bard’s Much Ado About Nothing; Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music, which uses text from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice to celebrate the power of music; and selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. The Philharmonia was joined by the Yale Glee Club and the Yale Voxtet for the Serenade to Music. Yale Glee Club member and President Jared Michaud ’19BA (theater studies) said performing with the Voxtet and the Philharmonia was “an incredible opportunity.”

Violinist Julia Mirzoev ’20MM felt the same way about performing for the first time as a member of the Philharmonia, saying the experience “surpassed anything” she had done to that point.

Spring 2019 preview Join us in 2019 for a what are sure to be memorable performances by the School of Music’s exceptional students, distinguished faculty, and compelling guest artists.

Among the highlights of the spring semester is Yale Opera’s new production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. Nearly a centuryand-half after the work was premiered by students of the Moscow Conservatory, acclaimed director Paul Curran aims to showcase Yale’s ascendant vocalists, who will be joined for three performances, in New Haven’s historic Shubert Theatre, by the extraordinary Yale Philharmonia.

This spring, the Yale Philharmonia welcomes back guest conductor Carolyn Kuan, who will lead the orchestra in a performance of Copland’s suite from Appalachian Spring, Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements, and more.

As part of the Oneppo Chamber Music Series, viola da gamba virtuoso and early music specialist Jordi Savall comes to Yale with Le Concert des Nations for a performance of music from the 1991 French film Tous les Matins du Monde, and the Boston-based

chamber orchestra collective A Far Cry presents “Gravity,” an inventive and thought-provoking program of music by Pärt, Xenakis, John Luther Adams, and Bartók.

Jordi Savall

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The second half of the 2018-2019 Horowitz Piano Series presents a recital by Roberto Prosseda alongside performances by YSM faculty, and the final concert of the 2018-2019 Ellington Jazz Series welcomes Renee Rosnes, whom the Chicago Tribune has described as a “first-rate pianist.”

Make plans today to spend time in our magnificent concert venues experiencing worldclass performances of repertoire ranging from early to new music!

Roberto Prosseda

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Renee Rosnes

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NEWS

Faculty

Boris Berman

Jeffrey Douma

In January 2018, Professor of Piano Boris Berman traveled to Taiwan to participate in the International Taipei Maestro Piano Festival, an event hosted

by Maestro Art Taiwan. Berman taught master classes and performed alongside three former Yale piano students, Sasha Starcevich ’93MM ’97AD ’98MMA ’03DMA, Chiao-Han Liao ’00MM ’01AD, and Dorian Leljak ’96MM ’98MMA ’05DMA. Professor of Composition Martin Bresnick’s Parisot, performed by cellist Ashley Bathgate ’07MM ’08AD, was featured in a video by the ensemble Second Inversion. Bresnick’s Songs of the Mouse People was performed on multiple concerts by New Morse Code, an alumni duo comprised of cellist Hannah Collins ’06BS ’08MM ’09AD and percussionist Michael Compitello ’09MM ’12MMA ’16DMA. Bresnick gave lectures and master classes at the University of Melbourne, Australian National University, University of Adelaide, and Sydney Conservatorium of Music and was a composer-in-residence at the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium, where a concert featuring his piano music was performed by Lisa Moore.

Jeffrey Douma, Professor of

Peter Oundjian

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Choral Conducting, led the Yale Choral Artists, of which he is Founding Director, and the Young People’s Chorus of New York in

the premiere of Paola Prestini’s The Glass Box, a new choral work that explores the plight of refugee children. A review in Musical America of the New York performance declared, “For those who might think classical music is irrelevant, these two choirs proved otherwise.”

Two works by faculty composer Aaron Jay Kernis ’83 were premiered this year: Symphony No. 4 (Chromelodeon), composed for Hugh Wolff and the New England Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, and String Quartet No. 4 (Oasis), composed for the Borromeo String Quartet and the Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana.

Yale Philharmonia Principal Conductor Peter Oundjian led the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra in August 2018. In September, Oundjian conducted the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, several choruses, and vocal soloists in a performance of Britten’s “War Requiem” at the BBC Proms.

In October, faculty double bassist Donald Palma conducted the Greater Bridgeport Symphony in a program of Spanish and South American repertoire that featured YSM faculty guitarist Benjamin Verdery performing Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez. Last June, Palma returned to teach at the Orford Music Academy in Quebec.

Donald Palma

Markus Rathey

Markus Rathey, the Robert S. Tangeman Professor in the Practice of Music History, hosted and chaired the biennial meeting of the American Bach Society at Yale in April 2018. The meeting featured a scholarly conference and a wide array of performances of Bach’s music, including performances by the Yale Schola Cantorum and the Yale Voxtet. During the meeting, the Society awarded Masaaki Suzuki, an artist-in-residence at the Institute of Sacred Music and Principal Guest Conductor of the Yale Schola Cantorum, an honorary membership. Rathey was also recently featured in the BBC documentary Bach: Man of Passion and gave lectures in Kansas City, Boston, and Philadelphia.

Faculty guitarist Benjamin Verdery premiered Bryce Dessner’s Quintet for High Strings at the 92 nd Street Y with the St. Lawrence String Quartet, and released a video of a solo guitar arrangement of Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras.

In November, Verdery traveled to Santiago, Chile, where he gave two recitals and premiered a new work

by Chilean composer Javier Farias.

Benjamin Verdery

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NEWS

Students Windsor Castle, Clare College, Cambridge University, and Chester Cathedral. Also this year, von Behren joined the teaching faculty of the American Guild of Organists’ Pipe Organ Encounter Plus program in Rockford, Ill.

Krists Auznieks

Jisu Jung

NeoArctic, a large-scale staged multimedia work by composer Krists Auznieks ’16MM ’22DMA was performed at the Southbank Centre in London in May 2018.

Last August, Auznieks’ Crossing was performed by the Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra. Auznieks was YSM’s Lecturer in Hearing during the fall semester.

Organist David von Behren ’19MM toured the U.K. this past summer, performing recitals at St. George’s Chapel, 16

Composer Ethan Braun ’21DMA had three major commissions premiere last fall, including Ambition, an evening-length work commissioned by Ensemble Klang and the Gaudeamus Muziekweek in the Netherlands, a work for brass quintet and electronics commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and an opera commissioned by the City of Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

Composers Ethan Braun ’21DMA and Liliya Ugay ’16MM ’22DMA were awarded fellowships to participate in CULTIVATE, a summer composition workshop directed by Derek Bermel at Aaron Copland’s National Historic Landmark home in Cortlandt Manor, N.Y. Tubist Jake Fewx ’18MM ’19MMA won first prize in the Tuba Artist division at the Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival Competition last August.

Violinist Ariel Horowitz ’19MM was awarded second prize at the International Arthur Grumiaux Competition for Young Violinists in Brussels, Belgium, and also earned a prize for the Best Interpretation of a Work by a Belgian Composer.

Percussionist Jisu Jung ’19MM was awarded the Grace Woodson Memorial Award at the Houston Symphony’s Ima Hogg Competition for her performance of E. Séjourné’s Concerto for Marimba and Strings. Jung also received the Hermann Shoss Audience Choice Award.

Henry Kramer ’13AD ’19DMA was appointed the L. Rexford Whiddon Distinguished Chair in Piano at the Joyce and Henry Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University in Columbus, Ga.

Composer Alexis C. Lamb ’20MM will premiere her first work for orchestra in March 2019 with the Arizona State University Symphony. Lamb will also premiere a new concerto by Elliot Cole as a performer in the world music sextet Projeto Arcomusical.

Ingram Lee ’19MM won the

position of Second Trombone with the Bangor Symphony Orchestra in Maine.

Composer Aaron Israel Levin ’19MM had two pieces performed as part of the National Conference of the Society of Composers, Inc. Levin’s sextet, Springbokkie, was performed in Tacoma, Wash., in March 2018, and his work Operating Room was performed at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music last September.

May 2019 and will be performed

by Interlochen’s World Youth Symphony Orchestra in July 2019.

Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner ’20AD

reached the finals of the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition, and Yannick Van de Velde ’20MMA reached the semifinal round.

Marianne di Tomaso

Pianists Wenting Shi ’19MMA, Gabriele Strata ’19MM, and Yannick Van de Velde ’20MMA competed at the Virtuoso & Belcanto Festival, in Lucca, Italy.

Strata and Shi won first prize and third prize, respectively, in the Piano Competition. Shi and Van de Velde won first prize in the Chamber Music Competition.

Peter Shin

Violinists Gregory Lewis ’19MM and Marianne di Tomaso ’17MM ’19MMA competed at the Virtuoso & Belcanto Festival in Lucca, Italy, in July 2018. Tomaso received first prize and Lewis received second prize in the Violin Competition.

As grand prize winner of the New York Youth Symphony’s First Music program, composer Ryan Lindveit ’19MM has been commissioned to write a new piece for orchestra that will be premiered at Carnegie Hall in

Composer Peter S. Shin ’20MMA was called “a composer to watch” in the June 1, 2018, edition of The New York Times. The mention was in praise of Shin’s work Slant, which was performed by Michael Repper and the New York Youth Symphony.

Violist Marlea Simpson ’19MM returned to the Grant Park Orchestra in Chicago last summer for a third season, her first as a tenured musician.

Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Texas, and Iowa.

Pianist Yannick Van de Velde ’20MMA performed Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with Christophe Horák and Bruno Delepelaire, principal violinist and principal cellist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, respectively, on a tour that culminated in a performance with Stanley Dodds and Das Sinfonie Orchester Berlin.

As the first prize and audience winner in the Young Professional Division of the 2017 Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival, organist Grant Wareham ’20MM performed on a recital at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Hartford, Conn., last September.

Rimbo Wong ’19MM was hired in August 2018 as the Principal Violist of the Manchester Festival Orchestra.

Yevgeny Yontov ’14MM ’20DMA was appointed to a one-year assistant professorship as Instructor of Piano at the College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

Trumpeter Chloe Swindler ’19MM was selected to tour as an Associate Artist with The Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass for its 2018-2019 season. The tour includes performances in New York, Vermont, Arizona, 17

RETIREMENTS

Paul Hawkshaw

The embodiment of the School of Music

For 34 years, in academic, pedagogical, and leadership capacities, Paul Hawkshaw served the School of Music with quiet, selfless dedication, beloved by faculty, staff, and students, alike, and respected as much for his manner as his mind. In addition to serving as Professor in the Practice of Musicology, he served as Associate Dean, Deputy Dean, and Acting Dean.

In 2004, Hawkshaw succeeded Joan Panetti as Director of the Yale Summer School of Music/ Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and served in that role for 12 years.

“Hawkshaw has been a transformative and visionary leader for the Norfolk program,” YSM Dean Robert Blocker said upon Hawkshaw’s retirement from Norfolk. “Perhaps even most significant is the warmth with which Hawkshaw has established close relationships 18

between the festival and the surrounding community.”

More recently, Blocker pointed out that Hawkshaw is “one of the eminent Bruckner scholars of his generation.” A member of the International Bruckner Society’s editorial board, Hawkshaw created a new edition of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony from the original autograph manuscript. The new edition was premiered by Principal Conductor Peter Oundjian and the Yale Philharmonia in October 2017.

Hawkshaw described the occasion as a “once-in-a-lifetime event.”

Hawkshaw is working on new editions of Bruckner’s Seventh and Ninth Symphonies for the International Bruckner Society’s Collected Works Edition, which is being created under the auspices of the Austrian National Library and the Vienna Philharmonic.

In spring 2018, Hawkshaw was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in Vienna, where he taught classes at the University of Vienna’s Institute of Musicology and at the city’s University of Music and Performing Arts, in addition to working at the Austrian National Library on a project titled A Bequest and a Complex Legacy: Untangling Anton Bruckner’s Revisions in Later Times.

At YSM’s 2018 Convocation, recognizing Hawkshaw as Professor Emeritus of Music, Blocker said, “Paul was the embodiment of this School of Music, and for that matter he still is.”

Joan Panetti A transformative figure at YSM

Violinist Vijay Gupta ’07MM, a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the founder and Artistic Director of Street Symphony, has said Joan Panetti’s Hearing course at YSM “totally transformed the way that I teach and perform and collaborate,” and that “I kind of feel Dr. Panetti coming up in my voice and in my steps when I teach.”

Panetti ’67MM ’73MMA ’74DMA, who retired in 2018 after 37 years on the YSM faculty, is, in Dean Robert Blocker’s words, an “inspiring” and “provocative” teacher and composer, and a “sterling pianist.”

Panetti’s “widely admired Hearing course at YSM,” Blocker has said, “transformed the practice of many ascendant musicians and has taught us all how to better appreciate the gift that music is, and to share that gift with family, friends, and audiences wherever we go.”

In addition to her academic work at Yale, Panetti served for 22 years as Director of the Yale Summer School of Music/

Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. During the 1987 Norfolk season, Panetti presented a program called “Variations and Transcriptions: An Evening of Lighthearted Entertainment.” On that occasion, she explained to a reporter from The New York Times, “I see nothing wrong with being lighthearted and a virtuoso.

There’s not enough laughter in this life.” Panetti certainly brought that spirit to her work at YSM.

Chamber Music. “We have all been immeasurably enriched

by Joan’s presence and we are grateful for the joy she has brought us.” Panetti is now Professor Emerita at the School of Music.

“Joan’s contagious enthusiasm for music has touched all who have worked and studied with her,” Blocker said in announcing Panetti’s retirement as the Sylvia and Leonard Marx Professor in the Practice of Hearing and 19

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The winners of the 2018 Elm-Ivy Awards with New Haven Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers ( front row, third from left) and Yale President Peter Salovey (center).

Music in Schools Initiative receives Ivy Award Each year, the Yale University Seton Elm-Ivy Awards recognize outstanding members of the Yale and New Haven communities who work together to improve “town and gown” relationships.

The awards were established in 1979 by Phyllis and Fenmore Seton ’38 and have since honored more than 400 individuals and organizations through Elm Awards, which are given to members of the New Haven community, and Ivy Awards, which are given to Yale faculty, staff, and students. New Haven Mayor Toni Harp and Yale University President Peter Salovey presented the 2018 Elm-Ivy Awards in April.

YSM’s Music in Schools Initiative, under the leadership of Director

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Rubén Rodríguez ’11MM, Associate Dean Michael Yaffe, and Yaffe’s assistant, Rachel Glodo ’13BA, earned a 2018 Ivy Award for its work in the Yale and New Haven communities.

“The distinctive characteristic of the Music in Schools Initiative is its sole focus on public schools,” said Dean Robert Blocker, who nominated the Music in Schools team for an Ivy Award. “Students and teachers are and have always been at the heart of all programming for the initiative, with mentoring and active music-making permeating every aspect of the shared experiences.

The evolution of this venture, especially under the watchful eyes of Michael, Rubén, and Rachel, has been extraordinary.”

The Music in Schools Initiative was established in 2007 to explore how music can be used as a means of social change in the City of New Haven and beyond. The foundation of the initiative is a partnership with the New Haven Public Schools in which teaching artists from the School of Music support the work of certified music-education teachers. The initiative also encompasses the Morse Summer Music Academy, a biennial Symposium on Music in Schools, and a visiting professor whose work focuses on community engagement.

Willie Ruff awarded honorary doctorate As part of Yale’s 317 th Commencement, the University awarded 10 honorary degrees. One of those was presented to Willie Ruff ’53BM ’54MM, who retired in May 2017 having spent 46 years on the School of Music faculty.

Presenting Ruff with an honorary doctor of music degree, University President Peter Salovey said, “You have shared the wonders of music with the world.

Introducing new audiences to the transcendent power of jazz, you discovered the echoes of distant times and faraway places in this quintessential American art form.

In your ‘conservatory without walls,’ generations of young

Two alumni named cofinalists for Pulitzer Prize

University President Peter Salovey presents Willie Ruff with an honorary doctorate.

people have been inspired by jazz legends. Scholar, storyteller, and musician, in gratitude for your creativity and charisma, we are privileged to present your third Yale degree, Doctor of Music.”

The “conservatory without walls” to which Salovey referred is the environment in which the African American musical tradition has

Two Yale School of Music composers were named finalists for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in music. Michael Gilbertson ’13MM ’21DMA was nominated for his work Quartet, which was commissioned by the Verona Quartet, Concert Artists Guild, and BMI Foundation. The work was described by the Pulitzer committee as “a masterwork in a traditional format … that is unconstrained by convention or musical vogues and possesses a rare capacity to stir the heart.”

evolved. In 1972, a year after joining the faculty at his alma mater, Ruff brought 40 jazz legends to Yale — among them Duke Ellington, Marian Anderson, Dizzy Gillespie, and Charles Mingus — and launched the Duke Ellington Fellowship and the Ellington Jazz Series.

Ted Hearne ’08MM ’09MMA ’14DMA was nominated for his work Sound from the Bench, which was commissioned by Volti and The Crossing. Sound from the Bench was described by the committee as “a five-movement cantata for chamber choir, electric guitar, and percussion that raises oblique questions about the crosscurrents of power through excerpts from sources as diverse as Supreme Court rulings and ventriloquism textbooks.”

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Cellist Aldo Parisot retires after 60 years at YSM For 60 years, cellists from around the world came to the Yale School of Music to study with Aldo Parisot ’48 ’70mah, a legendary figure in the field by any standard and an inimitable presence in the School’s studios and concert spaces. In June, at 99, Parisot retired from teaching, eliciting reflections from those who knew and worked closely with him.

“The presence of Aldo Parisot in the School of Music has been transformative and transcendent,” YSM Dean Robert Blocker said upon Parisot’s retirement. “His strongly held opinions about artistic excellence have led generations of faculty and students to carefully consider their points of view about musicmaking, but with his rigorous intonements came a palpable love for the beauty of music and what it means to our lives.”

Parisot began cello studies in his native Brazil, where he learned from his stepfather, cellist Tomazzo Babini. “When I heard 22

his beautiful sound, I showed the desire to play immediately,” Parisot told Ralph Kirshbaum ’68BA, one of his most wellknown students. “But before he would give me my first lesson he taught me solfège for two years. I didn’t play the cello until I was 7.”

Parisot credits Babini—the only cello teacher he ever had—with helping to develop a technique that supported his creativity.

Parisot made his debut with the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra at age 12. When he was 18, he became the ensemble’s principal cellist. It was in Rio de Janeiro that he came to the attention of an

American attaché to the Brazilian embassy, Carleton Sprague Smith.

Impressed with Parisot’s artistry, Smith offered to help him study abroad. Parisot was eager to study at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Emanuel Feuermann, who died before Parisot was scheduled to leave Brazil. Parisot’s plans changed, and, with Smith’s help, he secured a scholarship to study at the Yale School of Music, an offer he accepted on the condition that he would not have to take any cello lessons.

Parisot arrived at Yale in 1946 as a “special student.” He studied

Opposite: Parisot pictured with his paintings.

Above: Parisot with his Stradivarius cello, “The Swan.�

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chamber music and, with composer Paul Hindemith, music theory. In 1948, he auditioned for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, with which he played professionally for two years.

But the orchestra life was not for him, and he longed to have a solo career. In 1950, he gave his debut recital at Town Hall in New York City, launching an international career that produced recordings for RCA Victor, Angel, Westminster, and Phonodisc.

As a performer, Parisot was renowned for his beautiful sound and astonishing technique. He performed on stages throughout the world, both as a recitalist and as a soloist with major orchestras under the batons of such eminent conductors as Stokowski, Barbirolli, Bernstein, Mehta, Monteux, and others.

Parisot was driven to expand the cello repertoire, premiering numerous works for the instrument. Reacting to his 1966 premiere of Donald Martino’s Parisonatina al’Dodecafonia, composed for and dedicated to him, The Boston Globe declared, “There is probably no cellist that can equal Parisot’s dazzling achievement.” The New York Times weighed in, saying, “Those at this performance are not going to forget [Parisot’s] feat overnight.”

Parisot is one of the rare musicians who has loved teaching as much as he has loved playing.

In 1958, he joined the faculty at the Yale School of Music. Along the way, in 1983, Parisot founded the Yale Cellos, an ensemble that has earned international acclaim 24

Aldo Parisot at a Yale Cellos rehearsal.

Yo-Yo Ma with Aldo Parisot at a Yale Cellos rehearsal in January 2015.

for its rich sound, stunning virtuosity, beloved recordings, and numerous additions to the cello-ensemble literature. In 1988, Parisot closed out a remarkable performing career and dedicated himself fully to teaching. He was named the Samuel Sanford Professor of Music at Yale in 1994, and, in 2002, received the Gustave Stoeckel Award, the School of Music’s most prestigious honor.

cellist Eric Adamshick ’17MM ’18MMA said. Discovering each student’s unique voice often meant finding new ways of approaching a piece of music. As Parisot said to Kirshbaum in an interview with The Strad, “I learn from my own students. Every day they surprise me. They come and do something, and I think, ‘Why didn’t I do that before? I never thought about that.’”

Throughout his career, Parisot viewed his students as family. “I have a great, great joy in teaching these people,” he said in 2017.

“Those are my children … I see in them me, when (I) was young, and I want to see them succeed.

I am very severe, because I care about them. I tell my students, ‘Your future depends on you.

You’ve got to believe in yourself.

You can do it. But only you can do it. I can only help you.’”

Parisot has long been known as a generous, passionate, forthright, and rigorous mentor. In addition to Kirshbaum, his former students include Jian Wang ’88CERT, Roman Jablonsky ’74MM, Shauna Rolston ’91BA ’93MM, and Carter Brey ’79. Parisot has called his students’ successes “an incredible pleasure.” He has taken a great interest in them as individuals and encouraged them to develop their own personalities, onstage and off. “I try to make students believe in themselves,” he said, “and that includes without the cello.”

Parisot did not want his students to imitate him as a player; instead he encouraged them to be themselves. “He told me that the highest aspiration of any teacher is to bring out each student’s individual character,”

Parisot’s creativity has not been limited to the performing arts.

He has produced a significant number of paintings, describing

Yale Cellos concert, 2004.

his process as “painting by ear.”

His visual artwork exudes his love of color and texture and in that way is reminiscent of his cello playing. Many of his works have been exhibited in concert halls and galleries around the world.

He has given away many of his paintings, selling them at Yale Cellos concerts and other special events, donating the proceeds to a travel fund that he founded for YSM students.

Jenny Kwak ’17MM ’18MMA was nervous during her first lesson with Parisot. “All I could listen for were my technical mistakes,” Kwak said. “I wasn’t making any music. He stopped me and asked, ‘What are you so scared of? Do you believe in yourself?’

Surprised to hear the unexpected

questions, I couldn’t answer him. He told me, ‘The most important thing is to believe in yourself.’ He showed me his paintings around the studio, and said, ‘When I created these paintings, they weren’t planned at all. I was inspired, and that’s what helped me to paint.’” The lesson learned, Kwak said, is that playing the cello is not about proving anything to the world or even to herself. It is about making something from inspiration.

János Starker, Parisot’s friend of many years and a distinguished cello teacher at Indiana University, once described Parisot as “the best cello teacher I have met in my life.”

Parisot’s contributions to the field are immeasurable and will inform

the practice of countless cellists in generations to come.

“He helped me foster and strengthen my own artistic voice,” Adamshick said. “His repeated stress on the idea of individuality and unique expression helped me discover a whole new level of selfawareness and self-confidence.”

Perhaps his most important gift to the art form is that he did not teach his students to play like him, but, rather, encouraged each of them to discover their own voice.

“There are many people who imitate their teacher,” he said. “I hate the idea that there’s someone in the world who sounds like a little Aldo Parisot. You’ve got to be yourself. We’ve all got to find our own way.”

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Left page, clockwise from top left: Parisot introducing Mstislav Rostropovich before a master class he gave at YSM; student Martine Bailly ’77mm receiving instruction from Parisot; Yale cellists at the Aldo Parisot Competition in Campos do Jordão, Brazil 1980; Parisot conducting students, including cellist Eugene Friesen ’78cert.

Current page, clockwise from top left: student Claudio Jaffe ’83ba ’84mm ’85mma ’90dma receiving instruction from Parisot; the Yale Quartet including ( from left) Broadus Erle, violin, Syoko Aki ’69MM, violin, Aldo Parisot ’48 ’70mah, cello, and David Schwartz, viola; Parisot carrying the YSM mace; student Steven Barrett Sills ’78ba/mm receiving instruction from Parisot.

Photos from the Yale School of Music archives.

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At Norfolk, the next generation has arrived

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On a Thursday evening this past August, an eager audience gathered in the Music Shed in Norfolk, Conn., for an Emerging Artist Showcase concert, a performance featuring fellows at the Yale Summer School of Music/ Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. “Your presence here,” Festival Director and YSM faculty pianist and Deputy Dean Melvin Chen told the audience, “is an extremely helpful part of our work.” Members of the performing ensembles provided a bit of background about each piece, speaking in informal yet scholarly tones.

The fellows’ performances throughout their six-week stay at Norfolk, as Chen told faculty and staff colleagues at Yale in September, were on par with those given by faculty artists, which speaks to the level of musicianship the festival attracts. The audience on that night in August certainly recognized the quality of playing they were experiencing, standing to applaud wildly after each performance — just as audiences did at the turn of the 20 th century, when Ellen Battell Stoeckel and her husband, Carl Stoeckel, established their estate at Norfolk as a destination for world-class performances by the most-celebrated artists of the day.

“Their original idea was to honor Ellen’s father,” the festival’s General Manager, James Nelson, said, referring to businessman and arts patron Robbins Battell. Carl was the son of Gustave Stoeckel, Yale University’s first professor of music, and worked as Robbins’ secretary.

“The place has an amazing musical history,” Chen said, explaining that Jean Sibelius, Fritz Kreisler, Maud Powell, and Sergei Rachmaninoff, among others, spent time making music at Norfolk.

At the turn of the 20 th century, “every town up here had its own chorus,” Nelson said, referencing the local ensemble, the Litchfield County Choral Union. Ellen and Carl brought the various vocal groups together for performances in the couple’s mansion, Whitehouse, beginning in 1899. By 1906, the audience for what then was an annual concert event had dictated the need for a dedicated venue, and the Music Shed was built, opening on June 6 of that year. “Norfolk 30

Above: Ellen Battell Stoeckel and Carl Stoeckel; below: the Music Shed at Norfolk, 1906.

was a destination at that point,” Nelson said, comparing the area’s draw at the turn of the century to that of Newport, Rhode Island, and the Catskills. Some rode the train from New York, alongside performers, to hear music by such contemporary American composers as George Chadwick and Horatio Parker (who became the Yale School of Music’s Dean in 1904), along with English composers Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Ralph Vaughan Williams, and others.

festival’s Director began in 2017, “is to get the best instrumentalists here, to make sure we’re getting the best students.” One way he is doing that is by presenting performances that feature both established and ascendant artists. “If you go to Norfolk,” Chen tells prospective fellows, “you get a chance to play with the faculty on Friday nights.” While that is not a new initiative, it is one that Chen feels is vital to the festival’s mission and one that introduces concertgoers to the next generation of important chamber artists.

Talking about her experience rehearsing and performing alongside faculty members, YSM bassist Amy Nickler ’19MM said, “It’s kind of like I’m getting a coaching within the chamber group.”

Above: Brentano String Quartet; below: New Music Workshop rehearsal.

When Ellen died in 1939, 14 years after Carl had passed, she left the estate to Yale “for the benefit and development of the School of Music of Yale University and for extending said University’s courses in music, art, and literature.” Around 1970, Nelson said, chamber music became the festival’s primary focus.

In August, Chen mentioned that “the caliber of students is higher” than in previous years, and that “the challenge” is to continue to raise that bar. “My goal,” said Chen, whose tenure as the

Coachings are a vital part of fellows’ experience at Norfolk. Violinist Amelia Dietrich, who is in the second year of the master’s program at The Juilliard School, plans to make a career of playing chamber music. Her teacher in New York, Ida Kavafian, thought the “faculty (at Norfolk) suited my needs for improvement and inspiration,” Dietrich said, and offered an opportunity to get an “outside perspective.”

Inspiration, for her, was largely found in being coached by the Brentano String Quartet in several chamber groups over the course of the festival. The Brentanos—the YSM’s quartet-inresidence, whose members spend a few weeks each summer at Norfolk—are Dietrich’s “biggest idols,” she said. “They’re amazing coaches, as well, and incredible teachers. Above all, they’re very intelligent people and they speak about music in ways that make a lot of sense and relate to human emotion.”

Music, of course, helps people relate to one another and to the wider world. Pianist Hilda Huang ’17BS ’19MM studies at YSM with Chen. Huang, like Chen, studied chemistry as an undergraduate at Yale and, in Chen, sees something of a kindred spirit. “He’s been a really supportive person in my life,” Huang said. “I feel like he really understands where I’m coming from.” Her decision to attend Norfolk had everything to do with Chen being there.

“Come to Norfolk,” Huang said Chen told her.

“It will be fun.”

For trumpeters Hannah Rundell and Connor Jenkinson, Norfolk was an introduction to the 31

American music scene. Rundell is a senior at the University of Melbourne, in Australia, where Jenkinson is in the master’s program. They both study there with YSM alumnus Joel Brennan ’06MM ’07MMA ’11DMA and attended Norfolk as members of the Maverick Brass Quintet, one of several pre-formed student chamber groups.

Rundell and Jenkinson plan to eventually pursue post-graduate work in the United States.

For them, Norfolk offered an opportunity to do some networking, in addition to “playing music all day,” Rundell said. Networking is an important part of being at a festival like Norfolk.

“We meet people now,” Dietrich said, whom “we’re going to be playing with for years.”

At Norfolk this past August, Rundell, Jenkinson, and Dietrich, along with several other fellows, performed alongside faculty members on a Friday-night program called “Beach, Bernstein and the American Tradition,” which featured performances of Leonard Bernstein’s Elegy for Mippy II, Dance Suite, and Piano Trio; Lowell Liebermann’s Quintet for Piano and Strings, Op. 34; and Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet, Op. 67. The repertoire, like other concert programs presented during the six-week festival, reflected Chen’s desire to focus on ideas, rather than bigname performers. “1918” was the theme of the 2018 Norfolk session, in celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s birth year and what it produced, musically speaking.

While “Beach, Bernstein and the American Tradition” featured a mix of faculty and student performers, that distinction made no appearance on stage. The difference between faculty and fellow is experience, not ability.

“I am continually surprised not just by how good the fellows are, but the sense of excitement, energy, and freshness that they bring to the works that I hear an awful lot, all year round,” Nelson said.

Deanne Chin, the festival’s longtime Associate Manager — a flutist, herself — acknowledges what Norfolk offers its fellows, and what they bring to the festival. “They have a chance to play every week,” Chin said. “They go through an inordinate amount of repertoire. I think when 32

The Music Shed at Norfolk.

they come here they know they’re going to work really hard.”

And they embrace that work. “When else are they going to have a chance, for six weeks, to just concentrate on music?” Chin asked, rhetorically. “It’s fun watching them, because they’re just starting out. They have that optimism. It is amazing to see how talented they are.”

The festival allows fellows to fully immerse themselves in their craft, to focus exclusively on refining their musicianship with help from those who have more experience. Faculty artists and chamber groups rotate, spending a week or two in Norfolk each summer. The session is bookended by a New Music Workshop, which is directed by YSM faculty composer Martin Bresnick, and a choral festival led by Simon Carrington, Professor Emeritus of Music at YSM. The former is a weeklong program in which four to six young composers each work on a piece of music scored for a predetermined instrumentation. For that week, each young composer’s piece is aggressively workshopped.

“We fix it and we change it,” Bresnick said. “Upand-coming” composers are “getting constant feedback” from him, pianist Lisa Moore, conductor Julian Pellicano, and an ensemble that is assembled for the weeklong workshop.

“It’s extremely intense,” Bresnick said. Although removed from the main, six-week stretch of the festival, the New Music Workshop is a nod to the early days of Norfolk when contemporary composers presented new music. In that way, and in audiences’ introduction to rising stars, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival is what it should be: an education for students and concertgoers alike.

Chen credits his predecessors, most recently YSM Professor Emeritus of Music Paul Hawkshaw and, before Hawkshaw, YSM Professor Emerita Joan Panetti ’67MM ’73MMA ’74DMA, with imbuing the festival with creative spirit and establishing a foundation on which to build for the future. Panetti led the festival for 22 years, from 1982 until 2004, when Hawkshaw became the festival’s Director, a position he held until 2016. Hawkshaw, Chen said, shored up the festival’s infrastructure and developed a strong symbiotic relationship with the local community.

“All those things have to continue,” Chen said.

“The town has been extraordinarily supportive of the festival.” Nelson concurred, saying, “Paul Hawkshaw worked really hard” on festivaltown relations. “There’s an openness now to the festival that was initiated by Paul.” Part of that has to do with local residents hosting fellows at their Norfolk homes and attending concerts.

The town’s postmaster, Nancy McGrath, is one of those locals.

“I’ve actually been housing students for many years,” she said. This past summer, she hosted YSM hornist Luke Baker ’18MM. And McGrath was at the Emerging Artist Showcase this past August when Baker’s quintet performed. “I finally got to see this talented person who’s been staying at my house,” McGrath said. “You do have a connection to (the fellows).” The festival, McGrath said, “brings such culture to the community that we wouldn’t otherwise get.”

Top: Concert chat with YSM Assistant Professor (adjunct) of Music History Paul Berry; middle: Philharmonia Baroque Gala; bottom: The Soldier’s Tale.

At intermission of the “Beach, Bernstein and the American Tradition” program, Norfolk resident and regular summertime concertgoer Hope Childs agreed, saying, “It’s like having a private orchestra in my backyard. It really is a wonderful education.”

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CLASS NOTES

Thomas Johnson

1950s Pianist Lawrence Jones ’59MM retired in 1997 from the faculty of the Brandon University School of Music in Manitoba, Canada, where he had served as Dean from 1987 to 1992. Jones continues to teach piano.

Joan Matey Mallory ’59BM

gave a recital of her own compositions, including The American Wilderness Suite and The Fantasy of a Slav, at the Lyceum in Alexandria, Va., and writes patriotic, seasonal, and humorous songs for children.

Pianist Denis Mickiewicz ’57BM ’58MA ’67PhD co-founded the Yale Russian Chorus in 1953. For the chorus’ 65 th anniversary concert on October 14 in Woolsey Hall, Mickiewicz returned as a guest conductor and led more than 100 alumni in performance.

1960s Composer Thomas Johnson ’61BA ’67MM created a YouTube channel 34

Sharon Isbin

Greg Sandow

with a unique collection of videos that use drawing to explain his mathematics-based music.

and community programs at the Washington National Opera, being a panelist on the Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday broadcast Opera Quiz, and acting as General and Artistic Director of the Charlottesville Opera.

1970s In 2018, Solomon Epstein ’70MM had excerpts from his opera The Dybbuk presented in concert at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini by professor Aloma Bardi of the University of Florence, Italy.

Guitarist Sharon Isbin ’78BA ’79MM served as the Director of Classical Guitar at the Aspen Music Festival and School this past summer, giving master classes, performing recitals, and teaching.

Wayne J. Kirby ’73MM moderated a panel discussion at the International Continuum Conference in Paris, in 2018. He also performed Paul Hindemith’s 7 Triostücke für 3 Trautonien with Edmund Eagan and Sally Sparks at the Gaîté Lyrique.

Michelle Krisel ’78BA retired after 40 years from a career that included running the education

Composer Greg Sandow ’74MM began his 21 st year on the faculty at The Juilliard School, teaching the graduate course “How to Speak and Write About Music” in the fall, and a course on the future of classical music in the spring.

David Snow ’78MM was one of 13 composers who contributed scores to Le Ballet de la Nuit, a 13-hour collective work of screendance that had its premiere in May 2018 at the Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne in Cerisy-laSalle, France.

1980s Peter Derheimer ’88MM completed his 27 th year as solo timpanist of the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla and Maestranza Opera House.

Maureen Horgan

Jahja Ling

Larisa Gelman

Derheimer also played drum set on five different jazz and orchestra programs in Seville.

Conductor Jahja Ling ’80MMA ’85DMA was the subject of an exhibition at the Bonita Museum and Cultural Center in Bonita, Calif. The exhibition charted the highlights of Maestro Ling’s career and included interactive elements designed to introduce visitors to the world of orchestral conducting.

Symphony No. 8 and developed a successful season of world premieres and standard repertoire.

Metropolitan Opera star Stephanie Blythe and pianist Alan Smith performed the art songs of Juliana Hall ’87MM in “An Evening with American Composer Juliana Hall,” a concert that took place last May. Maureen Horgan ’83MM is now Professor Emeritus at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Ga., where she taught brass, jazz, and aural skills for 16 years.

She retired from her position as Second Trombone of the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra following the 2017 season, having performed for 33 consecutive summer seasons.

Violinist Elizabeth Suh Lane ’88MM is the founder of the Bach Aria Soloists, which was awarded a USArtists International grant that allowed the group to perform the Asian premiere of Narong Prangcharoen’s DIALOGUE at the Thailand International Composition Festival.

Conductor Alasdair Neale ’85MM ’86MMA was named Music Director of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and will join the organization in the 20192020 season.

Augusta Read Thomas ’88,

Professor of Composition at the University of Chicago, was recently interviewed on the podcast Big Brains about her compositions and work.

1990s In his first year as Music Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Guayaquil, Ecuador, conductor Dante Santiago Anzolini ’89MM ’90MMA ’97DMA gave the South American premiere of Philip Glass’

Mark Elliot Bergman ’97MM received a Performing Arts Fellowship in Music from the Wyoming Arts Council, one of four recipients in the state.

Bergman’s winning original compositions include Ondine, The Temple, and Shenandoah Suite, a string trio commemorating the 75 th anniversary of the founding of Shenandoah National Park.

Bassoonist Larisa Gelman ’99MM was named Vice President of Community Impact at the Peace Center in Greenville, S.C. She previously served for 10 years as Director of the Center for Education Outreach at the 92 nd Street Y in New York City.

Trombonist David Gier ’85MM ’86MMA ’92DMA was appointed Dean of the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theater & Dance, and was also named the Paul Boylan Collegiate Professor of Music.

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Seth F. Josel

Vincent Carr

Romie de Guise-Langlois

Since 2016, guitarist Seth F. Josel ’85MM ’88MMA ’94DMA has been a research fellow at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent, where he is working on a critical edition of Helmut Lachenmann’s Salut für Caudwell. Josel is also an active performer in Berlin, Germany.

she taught “Entrepreneurship in the Arts.”

Flutist Jennifer Grim ’98MM ’99MMA ’03DMA joined the faculty at the University of Miami Frost School of Music.

Composer John Kline ’98MM ’99MMA was appointed Managing Director of Education at WeVideo, Inc., an online video editing platform for use in schools.

Violinists Rachel Segal ’99cert and members of her ensemble, the Fairmount String Quartet, have been appointed artists-inresidence at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia, Pa.

2000s Flutist Amanda Baker ’00MM returned to Yale to become Senior Associate Director for Young Alumni for the Yale Alumni Fund. She was also a guest lecturer this spring at the University of Hartford, where 36

Hornist Jocelyn Crawford Carr ’08MM was appointed Third Horn of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra.

Organist Vincent Carr ’06MM was awarded the Trustees’ Teaching Award from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music based on his work during his first year as Associate Professor in Organ & Sacred Music.

John Young Shik Concklin ’08MM

was appointed Assistant Professor of Conducting at Vanderbilt University.

Double bassist Brian Ellingsen ’09MM accepted a position with the United States Air Force Bands and will begin playing with the U.S. Air Force Band of the West in San Antonio, Texas.

Percussionist Timothy Feeney ’01MM ’02MMA ’07DMA was appointed to the faculty of the Herb Alpert School of Music at California Institute of the Arts.

Romie de Guise-Langlois ’06MM ’07AD was appointed Assistant Professor of Clarinet at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and leads the department’s clarinet studio.

Vijay Gupta ’07MM, who is

a violinist in the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the founder of Street Symphony, was named a 2018 MacArthur Fellow.

Composers Trevor Gureckis ’07MM and Jay Wadley ’07MM ’08AD, founders of the artist collective Found Object Music Productions, were nominated for an Emmy Award for their work on the sixth season of HBO’s VICE. Organist Paul Jacobs ’02MM ’03AD joined the Philadelphia Orchestra on the group’s tour of Europe and Israel last May, performing Wayne Oquin’s Resilience for organ and orchestra. Jacobs also appeared as a soloist with the Chicago

Andrew Norman

Kate Sheeran

Samuel Adams

Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra.

Tenor Rolando Sanz ’02MM ’03AD made his Metropolitan Opera debut in Mozart’s Idomeneo, a production that was simulcast in cinemas worldwide via the Met Live in HD. Sanz also won an Emmy Award for his work on a television special for Maryland Public Television (PBS) celebrating the works of Sir Tim Rice.

with a distinguished roster of instrumentalists, conductors, and orchestras.

Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti ’08MM

had compositions featured at the 14 th edition of the Thailand International Composition Festival.

Missy Mazzoli ’06MM was

appointed Mead Composerin-Residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Composer Andrew Norman ’09AD had a new symphony-length work, Sustain, premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic last October.

Hornist Kate Sheeran ’04MM was named Executive Director of the Kaufman Music Center in New York City last August.

James Austin Smith ’08MM

Composer Tawnie Olson ’99MM ’00AD was awarded the 2018 Barlow Prize from the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition and will compose a new work for SATB choir. The Barlow Endowment, based at Brigham Young University, also awarded composer Andy Akiho ’11MM a grant to compose a work for Sandbox Percussion.

Yoshiaki Onishi ’07MM ’08AD was

one of 12 composers to receive a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship.

joined the faculty at Stony Brook University as Interim Visiting Artist-in-Residence of Oboe.

Daniel Joseph Trahey ’03MM had his composition Now is the Time premiered by the Mosaic Scholars and the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra on the organization’s Symphony with Soul Celebration Concert.

Trombonist Martin Wittenberg ’04MM joined Columbia Artists as an artist manager, working

2010s Two works by composer Samuel Adams ’10MM received premieres: a new chamber concerto by Karen Gomyo and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Movements ( for us and them) by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, which was featured on an Australian and U.S. tour.

Sandbox Percussion, a group comprised of Jonathan Allen ’13MM ’14AD, Victor Caccese ’13MM, Ian Rosenbaum ’10MM ’11AD, and Terry Sweeney ’15MM, recently signed with the music management company Blu Ocean Arts.

Guitarist Trevor Babb ’12MM ’14MMA ’18DMA began serving as an adjunct artist at Vassar College in fall 2018.

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CLASS NOTES

Sarah Boxmeyer

Qi Cao

Eliud Garcia

’17MM, and double bassist Kaden Henderson ’17MM ’18MMA joined The Orchestra Now for its 2018-2019 season. Baker was also a finalist at the International Horn Symposium Premiere Solo Competition last August.

position directing the choirs at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., at the start of the 20182019 academic year.

the Santander International Piano Competition in Spain. FernándezNieto advanced to the finals and took home the Canon Audience Prize, and Park advanced to the semifinals.

Sarah Boxmeyer ’16MM won the

position of Associate Principal/ Third Horn of the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra. Boxmeyer played with the orchestra for much of the 2017-2018 season and began her first full season in September 2018.

Violist Emily Grace Brandenburg ’17MMA was named Administrative Assistant for the McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University in Macon, Ga. The Ulysses Quartet, whose members include violist Colin Brookes ’13MM ’14AD, won first prize in the Chamber Group division at the Alice & Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition.

Choral conductor Miles Canaday ’12MM began a tenure-track 38

Violinist Qi Cao ’10MM won a position with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra and joined the ensemble in September 2018.

Cao had been a member of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra for five years.

Composer Natalie Dietterich ’16MM ’17MMA began her Ph.D. studies at Princeton University in fall 2018.

Kevin Dombrowski ’14MM was appointed Second Trombone of the Illinois Symphony Orchestra.

Composer Reena Esmail ’11MM ’14MMA ’18DMA had her oratorio This Love Between Us performed by the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Esmail was also elected to the executive board of New Music USA. Pianists Juan Carlos FernándezNieto ’09MM ’10AD and Sun-A Park ’16AD ’17MMA participated in

Keyboardist Stephen Gamboa ’16AD was named Music Director at Bethesda Lutheran Church in New Haven, Conn.

Bass trombonist Eliud Garcia ’17MM performed Vaughan Williams’ Tuba/Bass Trombone Concerto at the Collegium Musicum summer academy in Pommersfelden, Germany, last August.

Flutist Isabel Gleicher ’14MM joined the International Contemporary Ensemble for the 2018-2019 season.

Timothy Gocklin ’14MM ’15AD was

appointed Artist-in-Residence in Oboe at the University of Northern Colorado.

Pianist Christopher Goodpasture ’18MMA, double-bassist Ha Young Jung ’15AD, flutist Leo Sussman ’18MM, violinist Suliman Tekalli

Leah Hawkins

Tian Hui Ng

Marissa Olegario

’16AD, and bassoonist Yen-Chen Wu ’16MM were five of the 18 musicians that joined the fellowship program Ensemble Connect in the fall.

cellist Rachel Henderson Freivogel ’10AD, and violist Sam Quintal ’10AD, welcomed Grammy Award winner Karen Kim as a new violinist last June.

Conductor Farkhad Khudyev ’10MM received a 2018 Solti Foundation Career Assistance Award.

Soprano Leah Hawkins ’15MM joined the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera, where she will make her debut as the Alms Collector in Suor Angelica and as the High Priestess in Aida.

Kemp Jernigan ’15MM was appointed Professor of Oboe at The Hartt School at the University of Hartford and at SUNY Purchase.

Darren Hicks ’14MM was appointed Associate Principal Bassoonist of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in March 2017.

Pianist Fantee Jones ’18MMA and violinists Sissi Yuqing Zhang ’19MMA and Kyung Min Lee ’17MM toured Asia this past summer as Ensemble Trois.

Soprano Jihee Kim ’11AD earned third prize at the Riccardo Zandonai Competition this past summer at the Musica Riva Festival in Italy.

Cellist Shinae Kim ’12MM ’13AD is a member of the Korean Broadcasting System Symphony Orchestra.

Brittany Lasch ’12MM continues teaching at Bowling Green State University’s College of Musical Arts, now as Assistant Professor of Trombone.

Conductor Tian Hui Ng ’10MM was appointed Conductor of the Pioneer Valley Symphony in Greenfield, Mass.

Molly Joyce ’17MM was one of four composers commissioned as part of the Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative. Joyce’s one-act opera Relapse, with a libretto by James Kennedy, will receive its world premiere in January 2019 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Bassoonist Marissa Olegario ’15MM joined the faculty at the University of Arizona’s Fred Fox School of Music last fall.

The Jasper String Quartet, YSM’s fellowship quartet-in-residence from 2008 to 2010 and includes violinist John Freivogel ’10AD,

Clarinetist Emil Khudyev ’11MM received tenure from the Seattle Symphony and Opera Players’ Organization last June.

Conductor Sarah Paquet ’16MM was appointed Assistant Director of Choral Activities at Smith College last fall.

Violinists Ethan Hoppe ’16MM ’18MMA and Yefim Romanov ’16AD joined the New World Symphony for the 2018-2019 season.

Violinist Cheuk Yin Luu ’18MM joined the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra for its 2018-2019 season.

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CLASS NOTES

Hilary Purrington

Luke Stence

Bassoonist Hanul Park ’17MM was appointed Acting Second Bassoonist of the Sarasota Orchestra in Sarasota, Fla.

Double bassist Luke Stence ’16MM ’17MMA performed on a program of new music for strings at the Next Festival of Emerging Artists in New York City in June 2018.

Hilary Purrington ’17MMA was one of six composers whose work was performed, workshopped, and recorded by the Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of Assistant Conductor Kensho Watanabe ’09BS ’10MM. Matthew Russo ’12MM joined the roster of Trombone Artists at the S. E. Shires Company.

Yoon Won Song ’13MM graduated

from Columbia Law School and began working at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in N.Y. Violinist David Southorn ’09MM ’10AD became Concertmaster of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and was featured in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade at Woolsey Hall last October.

Southorn continues to play with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic.

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Flutist Leo Sussman ’18MM began a residency with Ensemble Connect last September.

Organist Paul Braxton Thomas ’13MM was named Director of Music at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Guitarist An T. Tran ’16MM was awarded first prize at the University of Rhode Island’s Rising Stars Competition.

Chris Williams ’10MM started a

new job with the Concert Artists Guild as Vice President of Artist Management.

Pianist Joon Yoon ’16MM was awarded the Guildhall School’s Gold Medal, the school’s most prestigious prize for outstanding soloists. Yoon also appeared on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune.

Joon Yoon

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Violinist Vijay Gupta earns MacArthur Fellowship Violinist Vijay Gupta ’07MM was working on Skid Row with Street Symphony when the MacArthur Foundation first tried to contact him in September.

Not recognizing the number, he ignored a few calls until he was in his car, on the way to his day job at Walt Disney Concert Hall. “I was pretty dumbfounded,” Gupta said of learning that he had been named a MacArthur Fellow and would receive a Genius Grant for “providing musical enrichment and valuable human connection to the homeless, incarcerated, and other under-resourced communities in Los Angeles,” according to the MacArthur Foundation website.

The Foundation awards “unrestricted fellowships to

talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.”

Gupta, a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, founded Street Symphony in 2011. The organization’s mission is to put “social justice at the heart of music making by creating authentic, powerful engagements between professional and emerging artists and communities disenfranchised by homelessness and incarceration in Los Angeles County.”

The MacArthur Fellowship, Gupta said, “means that people have belief in me and belief in the work” he is doing. It is “affirming,” he said, a “vote of confidence.” It

is also “pretty daunting” to think about how he will use what the Foundation calls a $625,000 “nostrings-attached award.”

“It’s overwhelming to think about all the possibilities,” Gupta said. The question he is asking himself is, “How do I use this for the deepest, most authentic self-evolution?” After all, “the opportunity to invest in oneself is so rare.”

The Fellowship, at its core, reflects his own belief in what he has been doing. The “validation of trust” that comes with the grant, he said, is forcing him to identify, in a way, who he wants to be through the work that he does.

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RECORDINGS & PUBLICATIONS

Organist Calvin Bowman ’99MMA ’05DMA was signed to the Universal Music Australia label with the release of Real and Right and True, an album of his own compositions.

Faculty bass-baritone Richard Cross co-authored a new textbook, The Singer’s Guide to German Diction, with Valentin Lanzrein.

The book was released by Oxford University Press last July.

The chamber vocal ensemble NOTUS, directed by Dominick DiOrio ’08MM ’09MMA ’12DMA, released NOTUS: Of Radiance & Refraction on Innova Recordings.

Featuring world premieres and the Zorá String Quartet, the commercial album is the first in ensemble’s nearly 40-year history.

Professor of Choral Conducting Jeffrey Douma’s debut Naxos recording, Statements, featuring works by David Lang ’83MMA ’89DMA, Hannah Lash ’12AD, and Ted Hearne ’08MM ’09MMA ’14DMA performed by the Yale Philharmonia and the Yale Choral Artists, of which Douma is Founding Director, was reviewed glowingly in Gramophone and named a “Critic’s Choice” by Opera News.

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Guitarists Thomas Flippin ’07MM ’08AD and Christopher Mallett ’09MM, performing as Duo Noire, released an album called Night Triptych on New Focus Recordings. The album features several world-premiere recordings of newly commissioned works by women composers.

The Jasper String Quartet, whose members include violinist J. Freivogel ’10AD, cellist Rachel Henderson Freivogel ’10AD, and violist Sam Quintal ’10AD, released the album Unbound on the Sono Luminus and New Amsterdam labels. The New York Times named the album one of the “Top 25 Classical Albums of 2017.”

Alexandra Ivanoff ’70 authored

an article in The New York Times on January 30, 2018, regarding the controversy surrounding the Hungarian State Opera casting caucasian singers for its production of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.

Pianist Wenbin Jin ’13MM ’15AD was awarded the Liszt Ferenc Society’s International Grand Prix du Disque for his Naxos recording of Liszt’s Grandes

études, S. 137. An award ceremony took place on Liszt’s birthday, October 24, in Budapest.

Several recordings by faculty composer Aaron Jay Kernis ’83 were released last year, including Dreamsongs: Three Concertos performed by Joshua Roman, Paul Neubauer, and the Royal Northern Sinfonia (Signum Classics); First Club Date, performed by Matt Haimovitz and Andrea Lam ’04AD (Pentatone); The Wheel of Time, performed by The Esoterics (Terpsichore); three song cycles performed by Talise Trevigne and the Albany Symphony (Albany Records); and Kernis’ Concerto for Violin, performed by James Ehnes and the Seattle Symphony (Onyx Classics).

Harpsichordist Mark Kroll ’71MM recently recorded seven CDs of François Couperin’s harpsichord music for Centaur Records. The project, which will result in a box of 10 compact discs of the complete works of Couperin, will be completed next year.

David Lasker ’72BA ’74MM is the bass player on Canadian

’08AD and Jeffrey Grossman and alumni Nicholas DiEugenio ’08AD ’09MMA ’14DMA and Ezra Seltzer ’06BA ’07MM, released their new album Folia, along with a music video of their critically acclaimed rendition of Vivaldi’s La Folia, in October 2018. The album was released by Soundspells Productions. The Sebastians are the ensemble-inresidence at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments.

Panorama, a CD of premieres of newly commissioned music for the Winds of the Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra, released on the Cambria Music label.

Clarinetist Seunghee Lee ’92MM ’94AD released her fifth album, Full Circle, with pianist Katrine Gislinge ’94MM. The album, on the Musica Solis label, includes several world-premiere works for clarinet and piano.

Yale Philharmonia Principal Conductor Peter Oundjian released three critically acclaimed CDs last spring. With the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, violinist Mira Wang, and cellist Jan Vogler, he recorded an album of double concertos by Rihm, Brahms, and Harbison (SONY).

With the RSNO and the Doric String Quartet, he recorded John Adams’ Naïve and Sentimental Music and Absolute Jest (Chandos).

And with the the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and pianist Louis Lortie, he recorded music

by Vaughan Williams (Chandos).

The Sebastians, whose members include early music faculty members Daniel S. Lee ’06MM

Faculty double bassist Donald Palma collaborated with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Wayne Shorter Quartet on a recording of Shorter’s compositions that was released in September 2018 on Blue Note Records. Palma’s recording of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du soldat, narrated by Roger Waters, was released by SONY Classical in October 2018.

Andrew Shenton ’93MM had

his monograph Arvo Pärt’s Resonant Texts: Choral and Organ Music 1956-2015 published by Cambridge University Press in May 2018. It follows Shenton’s contributions to The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt (CUP, 2012) and other essays on Pärt.

Violinist Matheus Garcia Souza ’14MM and the Unheard-of// Ensemble finished recording their first album set for release in February 2019. Formed three years ago, the group has premiered more than 30 works by such composers as Reiko Füting, Erin Rogers, and Christopher Stark.

Trumpeter Carl Stanley ’15MM and the Collective Brass released the album In Thy Sweet Name last May. Featuring new arrangements of Renaissance works for brass quintet, guitar, and percussion, the album includes works by Salomone Rossi, Christopher Tye, Henry VIII, Claudio Monteverdi, and Samuel Scheidt.

Faculty guitarist Ben Verdery’s book Benjamin Verdery: A Montage of a Classical Guitarist, edited by Thomas Donahue, was released by Hamilton Books in June 2018. The book contains several essays about Verdery by his colleagues and teachers including Sergio Assad, Seymour Bernstein, Leo Brouwer, Eliot Fisk ’76BA ’77MM, Fred Hand, David Russell, and Paco Pena, in addition to Verdery’s essays on teaching, performing, composing, and recording.

Violinist Dawn Wohn ’08MM ’09AD and pianist Esther Park ’12AD ’13MMA ’17DMA recorded an album of works by women composers to be released on the Delos label in spring 2019. The composers and their works were chosen to represent a spectrum of cultural and musical styles.

The Poulenc Trio, featuring bassoonist Bryan Young ’98MM, oboist Liang Wang, and pianist Irina Kaplan Lande, released its latest album, Trains of Thought, featuring the world-premiere title track by composer Viet Cuong, on the Delos label.

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IN MEMORIAM

The Yale School of Music recognizes the passing of these faculty, alumni, colleagues, and friends: John Kenneth Adams ’58BM ’59MM

Phillip J. Isaacson ’68MM

Florence G. Smith ’44BM

Constance Young Andrews ’43BM

Larry G. Lemmel ’61MM

Peter Standaart ’73MM ’74MMA

Raymond P. Bills ’62MM

Richard R. Owens ’55MM

William F. Toole ’50BM ’52MM

Eric M. Dahlin ’93CERT

Dorothy H. Partridge ’43BM

Armin J. Watkins ’53BM ’54MM

Irwin R. Gage ’63MM

Arthur B. Rubinstein ’58BM

Hope L. Whitehead ’43

Mary Gae George ’52BM

Lorraine L. Schaefer ’51

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School of Music Alumni Fund Year after year, support from alumni enables the School of Music to attract world-class students and faculty. Gifts to the Alumni Fund are directed to the School’s most urgent priorities, such as offsetting the financial burden of professional study at Yale through living stipends, acquiring and preserving instruments for practice and performance, and maintaining state-of-the-art facilities. The Alumni Fund touches nearly every corner of the School of Music, and gifts to the Fund help the School address its most pressing needs. No matter the gift amount, your participation is vital to advancing the School’s mission.

Alumni Fund gifts of $1,000 or more are recognized in the following giving categories: Nathan Hale Leaders Circle Fourth Century Associates $100,000 and above Elihu Yale Associates $50,000–$99,999 Woodbridge Associates $25,000–$49,999 Hillhouse Associates $15,000–$24,999 Sterling Associates $10,000–$14,999 Harkness Associates $5,000–$9,999 Woolsey Associates $1,000–$4,999

For more information about the School of Music Alumni Fund or other areas of giving, please contact Katherine Darr, Director of Development, at 203 432-2208 or katherine.darr@yale.edu.

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The School of Music is grateful for the generous support of its alumni and friends.

The following individuals made a contribution between January 1 and September 1, 2018.

To make your gift, please visit yale.edu/givemusic.

Honor Roll of Donors Alumni Fund Marita Abner ’78MM John K. Adams ’58BM ’59MM † Gregory N. Anderson ’08MMA ’13DMA Anita M. Ashur-Wakim ’85 Laura Catherine Atkinson ’09MM Amanda Dawn Baker ’00MM Amy Frost Baumgarten ’85MM David A. Behnke ’77MM Martha H. Bixler ’51BM Jeffrey Evans Brooks ’83MM ’84MMA ’89DMA M. Susan Brown ’76MM Jesus Castro-Balbi ’99MM Heejin Chang ’13MM David James Chrzanowski ’95MM Rosemary Colson ’65MM Noah J. Cotler ’14MM Katharine Couchot Herbert J. Coyne ’49 Ralph P. D’Mello ’62MM Irina Faskianos DePatie ’89BA ’90MM Deborah Dewey ’79MM Dominick DiOrio III ’08MM ’09MMA ’12DMA Kevin Dolan ’82MM Marie F.J. Dore ’81MM Robert A. Elhai ’86MM ’88MMA ’95DMA Kathryn Lee Engelhardt ’87MM Jayson Rodovsky Engquist ’96MM Pauline Blank Fearn ’67MM Grace Ann Feldman ’63MM Seymour Melvin Fink ’52BA ’53MM Thomas Ronald Flippin Jr. ’07MM ’08AD Nina Ardito Gambardella ’47 Marisa Wickersham Green ’06MM Richard F. Green ’68MM ’69MMA ’75DMA Mary J. Greer ’78BA ’86MA Eva Marie Heater ’91MM Karen E. Hopkinson ’81MM Maureen Horgan ’83MM Lauren A. Hunt ’13MM Timothy I. Hurd QSM ’77MM Maureen L. Hurd Hause ’96MM ’97MMA ’02DMA David B. Johnson ’72MMA Edward Joyce

deceased † List as of September 1, 2018

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Molly S. Joyce ’17MM Barbara Peterson Kieffer ’81MM Nayeon Kim ’12MM ’13AD Marjory R. Kimbell ’49BM Bonjiu Koo ’94MM ’95AD Charlotte K. Krosnick ’47 † Seunghee Lee ’92MM ’94AD Susan Bell Leon ’79MM William B. Lepler ’80MM Jill Pellett P. Levine Carol F. Lieberman ’67MM ’70MMA ’74DMA Jessica K. Liebowitz ’87BA Jane P. Logan ’69MM Anita La Fiandra MacDonald ’70MM Valerie and Louis Macdowell III Melissa J. Marse ’98MM Thomas Masse ’91MM ’92AD and James Perlotto M.D. ’78BS Henry G. Mautner ’76MM Donald Miller Jr. ’55BA ’60MM Mallory Miller ’69 Jane Mitchell ’13MM Joanna C. Mongiardo ’98MM Lola Odiaga ’66MM Alan M. Ohkubo ’14MM Georgia McEwan Palmieri ’70MM Dr. Stephen R. Pelkey ’85MM Kathryn G. Pirio Joan F. Popovic ’57BM ’58MM Doris Pupulidy David J. Recca ’14MMA Werner G. Rose ’61MM Susan Rotholz ’81MM Sharon L. Ruchman ’73MM Jonathan A. Salamon ’17MM Wendy S. Schwartz ’70MAT ’71MM Inbal Segev Brener ’93cert Jihoon Shin ’09MM Ronald D. Simone ’57BM ’58MM Frank A. Spaccarotella ’73MM Timothy Dale Spelbring ’05MM Philip D. Spencer ’77MM Melinda K. Spratlan ’65MM ’71MMA ’75DMA Thomas Jared Stellmacher ’09MM Luke D. Stence ’16MM ’17MMA Brennan Dale Szafron ’00MM Justin Mark Tierney ’12AD Houng-Yu Hsu Wang ’72MM Gregory Christopher Wrenn ’92MM Chengcheng Yao ’17MMA

Donna Yoo ’09MM Lauren K. Yu ’13MM

Patron Programs Jean Aberlin Nina R. Adams ’69MS ’77MSN Susan S. Addiss ’69MUS ’69MPH Jeffrey C. Alexander ’01MAH J. Alpern M.D. ’05MAH Burton Alter Victor A. Altshul M.D. ’60MD Ann Anderika Susan and Donald Anderson David Isaac Astrachan M.D. ’80BA ’84MD Henry E. Auer Judith and Stephen August Irma and Robert Bachman Paul B. Bailey ’72MArch Donna and William Batsford M.D. ’89MAH Angela Lauria Baumann Richard W. Beals ’60BA ’62MA ’64PhD David L. Belt Esq. ’65BA ’70LLB Laura Berry Susan ’82MS ’84MPhil ’87PhD and Victor Bers Joan and Henry Binder M.D. ’78MAH Elisabeth Bohlen Eric J. Bohman ’74MPhil ’84PhD Kathleen Bordelon Edward Brennan Rita Brieger Jennifer and Derek Briggs ’03MAH George E. Buchanan ’59BA ’62BArch Walter B. Cahn ’76MAH Anne and Guido Calabresi ’53BS ’58LLB ’62MAH Linda and Jeffrey Chaffkin Maria N. Chatladda Laura and Fred Clarke III FAIA Ellen Cohen and Steven David Fraade ’89MAH Phoebe N. Coleman Judith Colton ’88MAH and Wayne A. Meeks ’63MA ’65PhD Al Corsi Leo Cristofar Roseline Crowley Ph.D ’76PhD and Douglas Crowley ’63BA

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Anne McB. Curtis M.D. ’70MD Priscilla S. Dannies ’90MAH Armine Darbinyan Susan and Gustave Davis M.D. Anne P. Reed Dean Victoria K. DePalma Thomas P. Duffy M.D. ’81MAH Ronald H. Dukenski Richard H. Dumas Edwin M. Duval ’71MPhil ’73PhD Vic Dvorak Kevin Egan ’99MA ’99MPhil ’04PhD Marc Eisenberg M.D. Luis Fabiano Kathryn Feidelson Brin R. Ford ’70MArch Alexander Frank Susan H. Forster M.D. Moshe Gai Stephen Galyas Richard J. Gard ’02MM ’04MMA ’07DMA Sylvia and Howard Garland Melanie A. Ginter ’78BA ’81MS and John S. Lapides ’72BA Courtney Gordon Fred S. Gorelick M.D. ’94MAH Carolyn P. Gould Lauretta Grau Mary J. Greer ’78BA ’86MA Elizabeth Haas Cyrus Hamlin Lawrence Handler Erica Herzog Ph.D. ’05PhD and Raimund Herzog M.D. ’12MHS Robert Heimer ’80MS ’88PhD Jean Herzog Cheryl Hewitt Mary-Michelle Hirschoff Esq. ’70LLB Marjorie and Jay Hirshfield ’68MAH Frank Huisking John M. Hunt ’18MDiv Peter Huvelle Richard Ivey Alan Katz Blanche Katz and Maurice Mahoney M.D. ’82MAH Barbara and Ivan Katz Alan S. Kliger M.D. Ted R. Killiam Karen A. Kmetzo ’79MPH Gary R. Koch 48

Daniel Kops Elias Nicholas Kulukundis ’54BA Patricia M. Lacamera and Paul C. Guida Naomi R. Lamoreaux ’10MAH Richard Lalli ’80MMA ’86DMA Richard Lammlin Constance and Joseph LaPalombara Elaine and Jack Lawson ’89MAH James Frederick Leckman M.D. ’90MAH Jane ’72MPhil ’75PhD and Richard Levin ’72MPhil ’74PhD ’13LHDH Carolyn and William Lieber Judith Liebmann Ph.D. ’65MA ’69PhD and Karl-Otto Liebmann M.D. Stephanie Yu Lim ’00BA and Joseph K. Lim M.D. George Lister M.D. ’73MD Linda Koch Lorimer ’77JD Tracy MacMath Margaret and Marc Mann Nancy Mann Jocelyn S. Malkin M.D. ’52MD Suki and Colin McLaren John Merriman Elizabeth D. C. Meyer David S. Miller Irene and William Miller M.D. ’69MAH † Leonard Munstermann Myriam Binet-Ilunga Muya Howard Ian Needler ’58BS Crystal and Timothy Niemi Barbara ’66 and William Nordhaus ’63BA ’73MAH William S. Norton Sharon M. Oster ’83MAH and Ray C. Fair ’79MAH Peter C. Patrikis Thomas D. Pollard ’01MAH Mary Ellen Porcelli Dorota Potorecka Regine Powell Sophie Z. Powell Patricia A. Preisig Ph.D. ’06MAH George L. Priest ’69BA ’82MAH Jules D. Prown ’71MAH Alexander Purves ’58BA ’65MArch Barbara and David Reif Jonathan M. Resnik ’62BA Jim Ritt Kim E. Roberts W. Dean Rupp Jr. Ph.D. ’65PhD Leonard J. Rutkosky Ray Saturnino

deceased † List as of September 1, 2018

Robert S. Sherwin M.D. ’86MAH George B. Seligman ’51MA ’54PhD Karen and Melvyn Selsky Cecelia and Jerome Serling Mary Jo P. Shepard ’76MPH Robert G. Shulman ’79MAH Lorraine D. Siggins M.D. Mateus d. F. R. E. Silva ’18MBA Nathan Silverstein Manana Sikic Stephen Simpson Clifford L. Slayman ’83MAH Stephanie S. Spangler M.D. Carla M. Solomon Ph.D. ’75BA Richard Sonder Joan ’78MAH and Thomas Steitz ’79MAH Betsy and Lawrence Stern Keith Stetson Gregory Strub Lisa and David Totman Esq. ’61BA ’65LLB Liubov Tsabei Peter T. Uhrynowski Jose L. Gomez Villalobos M.D. M.S. ’12MS Monika and Fred Volker Kalman Lewis Watsky M.D. Jonathan Waters Peter H. Wells Ph.D. ’62BA Carl H. Wies ’72MArch Virginia T. Wilkinson ’62MAT Ransom C. Wilson Marcia and Richard Witten Elizabeth Anne and Werner Wolf ’65MAH Bernard Zuckerman M.D.

Endowed Scholarship, Support, and Resource Funds Denise and Stephen Adams ’59BA Syoko Aki Erle ’69MM Halina D. Avery ’96MM Rekha Bajaria Sue and John Beatty Serena and Robert Blocker ’95Mah Phyllis and Sidney Bresier Leigh Brillstein

Barbara J. Carter Maria Courogen William A. D’Amato Craig Dorfman Martin Fenton Jr. ’56BA Andrew Fullem Carol Colburn Grigor ’69MMA Helen Chung and Abel Halpern ’88BA Thomas Hunting Frederick J. Iseman ’75BA Diane Kane-Fournier Chuyue Kuang ’18MA Elaine Liebesman Peter L. Malkin Clinton F. Miller II M.D. ’68BA Shelley Orenstein Elizabeth Sawyer ’66MM ’70MMA ’73DMA and Aldo Parisot ’48 ’70MAH Lisa W. Perrin Lori Laitman Rosenblum ’75BA ’76MM Barry Sheriff Mary Louise Spencer Susan Spero Arlene Steinlauf Sherry and James Stidfole Rodney Vanderwarker Sheldon Wagner Corinne and David Weber

Collection of Musical Instruments Ann A. Bliss Guido Calabresi ’53BS ’58LLB ’62MAH Mary J. Greer ’78BA ’86MA Robert W. Lyons ’64Md Thomas G. MacCracken ’73BA Andrew J. Ochal Gary K. Ransom Kathryn L. Reichard Linda Roman Charles Rudig ’77MM Marlowe A. Sigal † Alan Steinert deceased † List as of September 1, 2018 49

Music in Schools Initiative Elizabeth A. Bacon James M. Banner Jr. ’57BA Walter W. Brewster Susan Elizabeth Broadwin Joseph G. Cadolino Thomas S. Chittenden ’57BA Steven Citarella Merrell M. Clark ’57BA ’70MAR Kimberly A. Crose Rosemarie Cummings Renato A. Dipentima William F. Eaton ’57BA Selma Fink Frederick K. Gaston III ’57BA Andrew J. Glass ’57BA Joan M. Haggerty Susan Lee Heitner Harold M. Hochman ’57BA ’59MA ’65PhD Susan S. Hopper Robert H. Joost Virginia and David Kendall Renee L. Laferriere George T. Lee Jr. ’57BA Lawrence I. List Henry R. Lord Barry I. Mankowitz Elvira and Richard Miller Geraldine L. Pettit Marnie and Asa Phillips Maxine L. Rockoff Laurie A. Brent Schiavone C. Nicholas Tingley ’57BE Neal S. Winneg ’82BA

Norfolk Chamber Music Festival Mary M. Ackerly Esq. ’77JD Joyce and Burton Joel Ahrens Esq. ’62JD

Alice and Samuel Anderson Annemarie and Herbert Arnold Linda and Roger Astmann Emily P. Bakemeier Francis Baudry M.D. John R. Beecher ’84MPH Frank B. Bell Joanne and Warren Bender Amy and Peter Bernstein Charles Berthiaume Lori Black Serena and Robert Blocker ’95Mah Les Bluestone Elizabeth Bradford Borden ’04MEM Joyce G. Briggs W. Murray Buttner ’54BS Steven B. Callahan Esq. ’74BA Theodore Chase Jr. and Victory Van Dyck Chase Melvin Chen ’91BS Carolyn S. Childs Hope S. Childs Charles Chromow Peter Coffeen and Stephen Getz Suzanne K. Colt George Cronin Judi and Michael Crowley Jean Crutchfield Burton M. Cunin Robert A. Dance ’80MAR Patricia Deans Katharine and James Demasi Andrew G. DeRocco Katharine and Rohit Desai Karen DiYanni Peterson ’96MM ’97AD Martina C. Dodd Judith and Paul Dorphley Louise Ducas Eiko and Robert J. Engling Fleur E. Fairman ’78BA Mary E. Fanette Claudia and Eliot Feldman John Fernandez Mary Ann and Joseph Fitzpatrick Kevin R. Flach Alison B. Fox Sara Frischer Adrienne Gallagher and James Nelson John C. Garrels III ’61BA Linda Garrettson Barbara L. Garside List as of September 1, 2018

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Catherine Gevers Elisabeth C. Gill Lionel Goldfrank III ’65BA William G. Gridley Erzsebet Harsanyi-Black and Donald Black Scott A. Hartman Susan and Paul Hawkshaw Peter S. Heller Suzanne M. Hertel Barbara and Gerald Hess Joel Howard Sheila K. Howe Leila Javitch Kenneth Kalmanson Doreen and Michael Kelly Richard H. Kessin ’66BA Judith L. Kiely Bernadette Kinsman Nancy Kriegel David M. Kurtz ’80MM Sandra Landau and Richard Rippe Robert Lapkin Carlene C. Laughlin Joseph L. Lavieri Starling Lawrence Richard W.B. Lewis Christopher S.V. Little ’71BA Robert B. Loper David N. Low Jr. ’87MPPM Pamela Lucas Steven Lurie Maija M. Lutz ’63MM Susan MacEachron Kim Maxwell Ronald Maxwell Lisa and Theo Melas-Kyriazi Stephen Melville Cecily R. Mermann Roger W. Miller Roger Mitchell and Pete Peterson David E. Moore ’87 Barbara and Richard Moore Katherine C. Moore Lester S. Morse Jr. ’51BA Leslie F. Moss Grant Mudge Christian Murck ’65BA Alda and Carlos Neumann Grace Noyes Dorothy and Robert Pam

Judith and Tician Papachristou Iris and Emanuel T. Phillips M.D. Sally and Andrew Quale Jr. Hugh M. Ravenscroft ’54BA Eileen E. Reed and C. A. Polnitsky M.D. Nancy and James Stephen Remis Cristin ’88MEM and David Rich ’83BA Gary L. Robison Naomi Rosenblum Barbara S. Roswell ’80BA Edward W. Russell III John Rutledge Pierre Saadeh Anita and Alain Saman Lauren Schiffer Joyce and Marvin Schwartz Stanley Shapiro M.D. Joel Sherman Thomas Sliney Ileene A. Smith Anne-Marie Soulliere and Lindsey Chao-Yun Kiang Esq. ’64BA ’68LLB Susan Spiggle and Tom Martin Patricia and Kurt Steele Graham R. Taylor Sarah M. Thacher ’98MDiv Alyson Thomson Richard F. Tombaugh Caryn O. Trager Herbert A. Vance Jr. ’65BA Sally and William Vaun Nancy R. Wadhams Rodney B. Wagner Alexandra W. Walcott Mark A. Walker Esq. ’66LLB Abby N. Wells ’67MM Virginia ’62MAT and John Wilkinson ’60BA ’63MAT ’79MAH Elizabeth Anne and Werner Wolf ’65MAH Susannah C.L. Wood

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