 | Ezra Laderman |
Yale will celebrate the music of renowned composer and former School of Music dean Ezra Laderman on Sunday, Oct. 31, with performances of his works by noted faculty members and a world premiere.
The afternoon of music, titled "Ezra Laderman at 80," will take place at 2:30 p.m. in Sprague Hall's Morse Recital Hall, corner of College and Wall streets. The concert is part of the School of Music's Faculty Artist Series, and is the only event in this year's series that features the music of a faculty composer.
The concert includes "Sh'ma" (1 & 11) with the Yale Schola Cantorum under Simon Carrington; "Duetti" with David Shifrin (clarinet) and Ransom Wilson (flute); "Piano Sonata No. 3" with Hsing-ay Hsu; "Elegy for Viola" with Jesse Levine; and the world premiere of "Samurai Song" for soprano, tenor and piano. The pianist for the former will be Robert Blocker, current dean of the School of Music.
Admission to the concert is free. For further information, call the School of Music's Concert Office at (203) 432-4158, or visit www.yale.edu/music.
From 1989 to 1995, Laderman served as dean of the Yale School of Music, where he is currently professor of composition. He has received commissions from orchestras and opera companies throughout the country. He has written works for such chamber ensembles as the Tokyo, Juilliard, Concord, Colorado, Lenox, Vermeer, Audubon and Composers quartets; and for such soloists as Yo-Yo Ma, Judith Raskin, Elmar Oliveira, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Sherrill Milnes and Emanuel Ax, among many others. In February 2003, the Pittsburgh Symphony under conductor Gunter Herbig and with Richard Page as soloist, premiered his "Concerto for Bass Clarinet and Orchestra."
Laderman has received three Guggenheim Fellowships, the Prix de Rome, and Rockefeller and Ford Foundation grants. He has served as president of the National Music Council and the American Music Center, chair of the American Composers Orchestra and director of the National Education Association's music program. The composer was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1989.
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