by | Jan 17, 2013 1:48 pm | Comments (0)
Purebred Records, a student-run record label at the University of New Haven that was launched last spring, has signed its first two artists, both of whom are expected to release albums in the fall.
by | Jan 10, 2013 3:32 pm | Comments (0)
David Hill
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The Yale Institute of Sacred Music has announced that choral conductor David Hill and writer Christian Wiman will join its faculty on July 1. Hill was appointed to a three-year term by the YISM and the Yale School of Music. In addition to his teaching duties, “Hill will serve as principal conductor of Yale Schola Cantorum,” according to a YISM news release.
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by | Jan 3, 2013 11:47 am | Comments (0)
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Ashley Smith
Clarinetist Ashley Smith, who is pursuing a master’s degree at the Yale School of Music, has earned the 2012 Freedman Fellowship for Classical Music, an annual prize administered by the Music Council of Australia.
by | Dec 18, 2012 3:58 pm | Comments (0)
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Ruben Rodriguez, far left, with musicians from the YSM’s Morse Summer Music Academy
Music in Schools, a Yale School of Music program through which graduate students support local public-school music teachers and their students, has added a string orchestra to its roster of All-City Honors Ensembles.
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by | Dec 7, 2012 3:35 pm | Comments (0)
The Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development’s Office of the Arts has announced the results of a national, arts-industry-specific economic-impact study released earlier this year by Americans for the Arts.
by | Dec 5, 2012 11:39 am | Comments (3)
Rachel Alderman
Rachel Alderman, a producer with the New Haven-based A Broken Umbrella Theatre, has been awarded a Denham Fellowship from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, which describes the prize on its website as “an annual award to aspiring young directors, and particularly women directors, to further develop their directing skills.”
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by | Dec 3, 2012 4:01 pm | Comments (1)
Patrick Lynch, a longtime member of the Yale University administrative staff, and retired Southern Connecticut State University biology professor Noble Proctor have won a National Outdoor Book Award for A Field Guide to the Southeast Coast & Gulf of Mexico: Coastal Habitats, Seabirds, Marine Mammals, Fish, & Other Wildlife.
by | Nov 15, 2012 3:30 pm | Comments (0)
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Henry Kramer.
Henry Kramer, an artist diploma candidate at the Yale School of Music, earned a second-place prize award earlier this month at the China Shanghai International Piano Competition.
by | Nov 7, 2012 2:32 pm | Comments (0)
Jason DeGroff, who directs the band programs and teaches in the music department at the University of New Haven, has been elected to the University of Massachusetts Minuteman Band Hall of Fame.
by | Nov 6, 2012 2:50 pm | Comments (0)
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David Lang
Musical America, which has been covering and providing information about the performing arts since 1898, has named David Lang its 2013 Composer of the Year. Lang, whose 2008 chamber-choir piece The Little Match Girl Passion won the composer a Pulitzer Prize, is on the faculty and an alumnus of the Yale School of Music.
by | Nov 4, 2012 9:56 am | Comments (0)
New Amsterdam Records on Tuesday released Roomful of Teeth, the eponymous debut recording from a vocal octet whose membership hails largely from Yale University.
by | Oct 25, 2012 11:23 am | Comments (0)
Yale University musicians on Friday will perform a special Halloween concern featuring Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain and other fitting compositions. What makes the event particularly noteworthy (if you’ll pardon the pun) is that the performers are practicing and aspiring physicians from the Yale Medical School.
by | Oct 23, 2012 7:17 am | Comments (0)
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Dr. Gretchen Berland and Michael Otremba
A film by 2012 Yale School of Medicine graduate Michael Otremba has been named “best documentary feature” at the New York Los Angeles International Film Festival. The film, Twero: The Road to Health, examines the problems Uganda has providing health care to its citizens.
by | Oct 17, 2012 10:47 am | Comments (0)
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Lou Donaldson performs at Yale.
Saxophonist Lou Donaldson, whom the National Endowment for the Arts in July named a 2013 Jazz Master, has more recently been recognized by Yale University.
by | Oct 12, 2012 10:18 am | Comments (0)
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Grace Brady
Quinnipiac University has named Grace Brady executive director of the school’s Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, which opened to the public on Thursday.
by | Oct 9, 2012 12:32 pm | Comments (0)
A new health care-focused performance piece by local playwright Aaron Jafferis will be staged later this month at HERE, a New York City venue that “supports multidisciplinary work that does not fit into a conventional programming agenda,” according to its website.
by | Oct 3, 2012 1:50 pm | Comments (0)
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Annie DiMartino, third from left, works with students in Long Wharf Theatre’s Urban-Suburban project
Long Wharf Theatre has announced the launch of an education program in which 7th and 8th graders at the Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology will learn about bullying through the presentation of a theater piece.
by | Oct 1, 2012 2:20 pm | Comments (1)
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault
The International Festival of Arts & Ideas will present its 2012 Visionary Leadership Award to Charlayne Hunter-Gault, the organization announced on Monday.
by | Sep 25, 2012 2:41 pm | Comments (1)
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Linda Friedlaender.
The Yale Center for British Art has added to its education initiatives a program geared toward young people on the autism spectrum.
by | Sep 24, 2012 1:36 pm | Comments (0)
Zizi Yu
Zizi Yu, who graduated this past spring from Amity Regional High School in Woodbridge and is currently studying at Yale University, has received a Milton Fisher Scholarship for Innovation and Creativity, the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, which administers the program, announced last week.
by | Sep 22, 2012 9:01 pm | Comments (0)
An ensemble of New Haven-based instrumentalists and vocalists performed on the Today show Friday after a video of a Labor Day performance went viral on YouTube.
by | Sep 13, 2012 2:20 pm | Comments (0)
Norman Lebrecht
The New Haven Symphony Orchestra’s Sept. 12 newsletter indicated that the organization “is competing with charities nationwide for grants ranging from $10,000 to $250,000 from the Chase Community Giving program.” The electronic mailing encouraged recipients to vote for the orchestra on the program’s Facebook page and explained that “the grant would be used to support NHSO education programs operating in 42 towns across Connecticut.”
by | Sep 10, 2012 2:29 pm | Comments (0)
On Sunday, Sept. 23, the winners of the National High School Musical Theater Awards will be revealed during the finale of a three-part PBS documentary called Broadway or Bust, the first installment of which aired last night.
by | Sep 6, 2012 10:46 am | Comments (0)
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Van Parker
The Milford Fine Arts Council has named Van Parker its new executive director. Parker succeeds Bill Meddick, “who had been with the Milford Fine Arts Council for 32 years,” according to Kristine Kinsella, the organization’s business and communications director.
by | Sep 4, 2012 12:33 pm | Comments (0)
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Joseph Smolinski
The University of New Haven has announced that two members of its community, Joseph Smolinski and Noel Sardalla, have received artist fellowships from the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development’s Office of the Arts.