Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 19, 2001

Volume 30, Number 7

Martin Bresnick

New Music New Haven to highlight
works by Yale composer

Award-winning Yale composer Martin Bresnick will be the featured artist in the first concert of this season's New Music New Haven series on Thursday, Oct. 25.

Bresnick, professor of composition and former director of New Music New Haven, has just returned to teaching after a three-year leave of absence as the recipient of the first Charles Ives Living Award, presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The $225,000 award allowed Bresnick to focus entirely on his own compositions without the responsibilities of teaching.

Each New Music New Haven concert this season will offer a work in the continuing series "Martin Bresnick: A Retrospective." The first concert will feature his "Sinfonia" from his "Opere della Musica Povera" ("Works of a Poor Music").

The concert will also feature several works by student composers. At the School of Music, they have the rare opportunity of hearing their new works performed by a full orchestra or by smaller ensembles.

The concert will be performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale under the direction of Lawrence Leighton Smith. It will begin at 8 p.m. in Woolsey Hall, corner of College and Grove streets. A pre-concert discussion with composers of new works for orchestra will begin at 7 p.m. in Rm. 412 of Leigh Hall, 435 College St. Admission to both events is free.

For further information, call (203) 432-4158 or visit the School of Music website at www.yale.edu/schmus.

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