 | Joan Panetti |
Joan Panetti, the newly designated Sylvia and Leonard Marx Jr. Class of 1954 Adjunct Professor of Music, is an internationally renowned pianist and composer who has also been instrumental in creating a flourishing summer musical festival at Yale.
During her tenure as director of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival/Yale Summer School of Music from 1981 until 2003, Panetti doubled the number of festival performances and greatly increased the number of summer concertgoers at Yale's Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate, where the festival is held. In addition, she oversaw the renovation of facilities on the estate and introduced programs to encourage young adults and children to attend festival events. Having also helped develop the Summer School of Music into a top training ground for young professional musicians and ensembles, Panetti is credited with elevating the festival and summer music school to international status.
As an educator, Panetti has taught piano at the School of Music for three decades, and she has also taught music theory in the Department of Music. She has received national acclaim for a course she developed emphasizing the interaction between performers and composers.
The pianist has toured extensively in the United States and Europe and performs frequently as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles.
Many of Panetti's own musical compositions have been published. Earlier this year, she performed her recently composed piano quintet titled "In a Dark Time, the Eye Begins to See" with the Toyko String Quartet in Pasadena, San Francisco, and at Lincoln Center in New York. Commissioned by Music Accord, the work, inspired by Theodore Roethke's poem "In a Dark Time," received wide acclaim.
Panetti studied piano, composition and theory at the Peabody Conservatory of Music before entering Smith College, where she received her B.A. and studied with Alvin Etler. She also studied at Fontainebleau, France, under Nadia Boulanger and at Tanglewood under composers Yannis Xenakis and Gunther Schuller. After college, she won three grants to study at the Conservatoire de Musique in Paris with Olivier Messaien. Her other teachers have included Yvonne Loriod, Wilhelm Kempff and Mel Powell.
Panetti then came to Yale, where she was a student of Donald Currier and earned her Master of Music degree from the School of Music in 1967. That same year, she began her teaching career as a member of Yale's faculty, and went on to earn her Doctor of Musical Arts from the University in 1973.
Panetti has won numerous awards, including first prizes at the Peabody Conservatory and the Conservatoire de Musique in Paris, Yale's Horatio Parker Award and its Greenwald Memorial Prize and Woods Chandler Prize for composition. She was among the top finishers in the International Bach Competition in 1968.
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