Photo courtesy of Yale School of Music
Education writer John Merrow
Carmalyn Buleje Cook, who, for more than 20 years, has taught music at the John C. Daniels School of International Communication, is one of 50 recipients from 30 states of the Yale Distinguished Music Educator Award.
According to a Yale School of Music press release, “The Yale Distinguished Music Educator Award is presented biennially to fifty music educators who are selected for their outstanding accomplishments teaching music in the nation’s public schools. This year, 330 educators from 45 U.S. states were nominated to receive the award.”
Cook and the other award recipients will be recognized at the biennial Symposium on Music in Schools, a program of the Yale School of Music’s Music in Schools Initiative, which was created with an endowment from the Yale College Class of 1957.
Music educators from the New Haven Public Schools will also attend this year’s Symposium of Music in Schools, which is scheduled for June 9 – 12 and will feature talks by Yo-Yo Ma—who, with the Silk Road Ensemble, will kick off this year’s International Festival of Arts & Ideas on June 11 (a performance that symposium participants will attend) — and New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Reginald Mayo. Education writer John Merrow will deliver the keynote address.
Cook could not be reached for comment.