 | The members of the Alianza String Quartet, all graduates of the School of Music, will appear onstage with their former mentors, the Tokyo String Quartet. |
The Yale School of Music will showcase the talents of its faculty and students
in a decidedly off-campus location — New York’s famed Carnegie
Hall — in a new concert series that opens in October.
T H I S
‘Yale at Carnegie’ series to feature performances by students, faculty
Titled “Yale at Carnegie,” the annual series will feature five diverse
concerts and will utilize all the venues within Carnegie Hall, with programs
suited to each space.
“Yale’s bold New York venture will demonstrate the great variety
and quality of music-making in the School of Music,” says Dean Robert Blocker. “We
will bring to the nation’s greatest concert hall young performers of unusual
promise who have come to study at Yale, part of our commitment to present these
students to international audiences in the artistic capitals of the world. We
will also showcase departments at the school such as chamber music, composition
and vocal studies; illustrate Yale’s great musical legacy; and draw attention
to the University’s unique scholarly resources.”
“Yale at Carnegie” begins Monday, Oct. 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Zankel
Hall with a showcase of student and faculty chamber music. The concert features
the Tokyo String Quartet and the Alianza String Quartet in their Carnegie debut.
The two groups share the stage in Mendelssohn’s “Octet” after
the Alianza String Quartet performs Beethoven’s early “C Minor Quartet.” Renowned
pianist Claude Frank, who has been on the Yale faculty since 1973, will play
the Brahms “Quintet” with his colleagues in the Tokyo String Quartet,
who have been on the faculty since 1976.
The Yale School of Music is unique in that all performance faculty members coach
chamber music, and all students are involved in chamber music for their entire
time at the school. Students are afforded numerous performance opportunities
in Yale’s concert halls.
The Oct. 1 concert will offer an illustration of the close working relationship
between faculty and students. The members of the Tokyo String Quartet have mentored
the musicians of the Alianza String Quartet since the latter’s inception
in 2004 when the group’s members were School of Music students. The Alianza
String Quartet is carrying on that same tradition in their postgraduate residency
at Yale, teaching and coaching graduate and undergraduate ensembles.
Tickets for the show are $20-$30 ($10-$20 for students and seniors) and may be
purchased online at www.carnegiehall.org or by calling (212) 247-7800.
Future offerings will include a program of “Songs of Charles Ives” in
Weill Recital Hall on Oct. 29; and an “All-Prokofiev Program” with
the Yale Philharmonia and pianist Boris Berman in Stern Auditorium on May 4.
There will also be a Feb. 4 concert in Zankel Hall, and a March 3 performance
in Weill Recital Hall; performers and programs will be announced.
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