by | Feb 8, 2012 4:33 pm | Comments (0)
Carol Jantsch, who became the Philadelphia Orchestra’s principal tubist in 2006 before completing her undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, will join the Yale School of Music faculty in the fall. According to a news release, “[Jantsch] is on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music, Temple University Boyer College of Music, and Manhattan School of Music,” as well.
by | Feb 3, 2012 10:13 am | Comments (0)
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Annie Rosen
Annie Rosen, a mezzo-soprano in the Yale School of Music’s opera program, will compete on March 11 in the semifinal round of the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions, having won at the regional level on January 29, 2011, in Boston.
by | Feb 1, 2012 12:26 pm | Comments (0)
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Jean Perkins
The Kehler Liddell Gallery has named Jean Perkins its new director. A press release issued by the organization on Sunday indicates that “Perkins joined Kehler Liddell in early January 2012.”
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by | Jan 25, 2012 3:11 pm | Comments (4)
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Laura Adam
The New Haven Symphony Orchestra has appointed Laura Adam as its new education director, the organization announced on Monday. Adam most recently served in a similar capacity at the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, in Michigan. She succeeds Dan Kinsman, who NHSO Marketing Manager Nicole Gallego said was with the organization for about a year.
by | Jan 24, 2012 1:26 pm | Comments (0)
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Jeanie O’Hare
The Yale School of Drama has announced that Jeanie O’Hare will serve as chairperson of the school’s playwriting department beginning on July 1, 2012. O’Hare was appointed to a three-year term, according to a press release issued on Monday. O’Hare will succeed Paula Vogel, who’ll vacate the position but remain a member of the school’s faculty.
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by | Jan 19, 2012 4:12 pm | Comments (0)
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Violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen performs with William Boughton and the NHSO
The New Haven Symphony Orchestra is offering consumers a chance to donate to the organization by buying energy from Discount Power, Inc. A portion of every kilowatt hour purchased through a partnership program announced on Wednesday will go into symphony coffers.
by | Jan 17, 2012 1:46 pm | Comments (0)
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Long Wharf Theatre has canceled plans to stage a world-premier production of Sophie’s Choice. The organization will instead present Aaron Posner’s adaptation of the Chaim Potok novel My Name is Asher Lev.
by | Jan 12, 2012 2:59 pm | Comments (0)
The Connecticut Young Writers Trust recently received a $2,500 program-development grant from First Niagara Bank. The funds will be used for “pedagogical outreach,” the organization’s chairman and executive director, Ravi Shankar, said on Thursday.
by | Jan 10, 2012 3:44 pm | Comments (0)
The state Department of Economic and Community Development’s Office of the Arts has scheduled five public forums through which it aims to educate arts stakeholders about “changes that will better integrate the state’s arts programs and economic development efforts,” according to a press release issued on Monday.
by | Jan 6, 2012 12:03 pm | Comments (0)
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Richard Deming
Poet Richard Deming, a lecture in English at Yale University, has been named the American Academy in Berlin’s 2012 John P. Birkelund Fellow.
by | Jan 5, 2012 5:56 pm | Comments (0)
The Haven String Quartet has been welcomed as an ensemble-in-residence at Southern Connecticut State University.
by | Dec 29, 2011 11:03 am | Comments (0)
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2011 winners and finalists, from left: Michael Sullivan, Sophia Harvey, Marisa Glynn, Julie Blum, Shannon Chapman, Kathleen Wallace, Meredith Kelly, Emma Chapman, Anna Bencivengo, and Beth Gilchrist
The Shoreline Arts Alliance is accepting applications for its 2012 Shoreline’s Top Talent: Scholarships in the Arts. The organization’s website indicates that “high school juniors and seniors of exceptional talent residing in the Shoreline region are considered for scholarship awards of $1,000 in creative writing, dance, instrumental music, vocal music, theatre, and visual arts.”
by | Dec 22, 2011 10:31 am | Comments (0)
To mark the 200th anniversary of composer Franz Liszt’s birth on Oct. 1811 in Raiding, Hungary, the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University has opened an exhibit titled Franz Liszt: Transcending the Virtuosic.
by | Dec 21, 2011 12:14 pm | Comments (1)
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Mychael Green stars as Nero in Broken Chains: A Gospel Hip-Hopera
In a “longstanding partnership” that is “grounded in the belief that a community of artists and work of quality are formed through shared experience and mutual high standards,” students from New Haven’s Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School are set to perform an original musical by Yale University graduate students, according to a university news release.
by | Dec 15, 2011 4:43 pm | Comments (0)
A $20 million bequest from the late Richard L. English to the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven will provide ongoing financial support to the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, New Haven Museum, Neighborhood Music School, and Connecticut Yankee Council Boy Scouts of America.
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by | Dec 14, 2011 11:09 am | Comments (0)
Thursday, the Yale Institute for Music Theatre and its artistic director, Mark Brokaw, will begin accepting applications for a “two-week summer residency,” according to a press release from the Yale School of Drama. Submissions will be received through Feb. 1, 2012.
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by | Dec 13, 2011 11:23 am | Comments (0)
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Laoise King
Thanks to an anonymous $150,000 donation to the United Way of Greater New Haven, several local nonprofit organizations are bringing arts-related programming into five area schools. The funds, which were received this past summer, were earmarked for “arts-related programming in the five Boost! schools” and came with the condition that participating schools would determine what services best suited their needs, according to Laoise King, the United Way of Greater New Haven’s vice-president of education initiatives. The donation also came with the stipulation that the vast majority of the $150,000 would go toward partnering with local artists, King said.
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by | Dec 12, 2011 1:44 pm | Comments (0)
The Whiffenpoofs are scheduled to perform at the White House on Tuesday for President Barack Obama and the first family.
by | Dec 9, 2011 4:18 pm | Comments (0)
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Patrick Dupré Quigley
Yale School of Music alumnus Patrick Dupré Quigley and his Miami-based vocal ensemble Seraphic Fire have received two Grammy Award nominations. The group’s recording of Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, Op.45 (A German Requiem) was nominated in the “Best Choral Performance” category. The ensemble’s A Seraphic Fire Christmas was nominated in the “Best Small Ensemble Performance” category.
by | Dec 2, 2011 12:32 pm | Comments (1)
Elaine Carroll
The New Haven Symphony Orchestra has named Elaine Carroll the organization’s new executive director.
by | Nov 28, 2011 1:14 pm | Comments (0)
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Michael Yaffe
Michael Yaffe, associate dean at the Yale School of Music, has received a National Guild Service Award from the National Guild for Community Arts Education. Yaffe was honored at the organization’s Annual Awards Luncheon, which took place in Boston on November 11 at the Conference for Community Arts Education.
by | Nov 23, 2011 8:00 am | Comments (0)
Joshua Borenstein
Long Wharf Theatre’s Board of Trustees has named Joshua Borenstein the organization’s new managing director. Borenstein assumed the role on an interim position in May after Ray Collum, who’d been hired in May 2009, announced in March that he was stepping down.
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by | Nov 22, 2011 8:20 am | Comments (0)
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Rocco Landesman
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman has announced grant funding for six local projects. The awards are among “863 grants to organizations and individual writers across the country,” according to a press release issued by the NEA on Thursday.
by | Nov 21, 2011 12:00 pm | Comments (0)
A new recording released earlier this month on the New Haven Improvisers Collective’s label, NHIC Records, will be celebrated with a Dec. 3 performance at Firehouse 12.
by | Nov 15, 2011 4:28 pm | Comments (0)
Candida Hofer.jpg: Candida Höfer’s Bibloteca De La Real Academie De La Lengua Madrid II, 2000. Image courtesy of Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Rebecca Gross, a blogger for the National Endowment for the Arts’ Big Read Blog, published a post yesterday about Artspace’s Library Science exhibition, which is on view through Jan. 28, 2012.
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