Faculty Profiles

Syoko Aki Professor in the Practice of Violin. Professor Aki studied in Japan at the Toho Academy of Music and in the United States at Hartt College and the Yale School of Music. She has taught at the Eastman School of Music and the State University of New York at Purchase. She has appeared as soloist with such leading conductors as Seiji Ozawa, Gerard Schwarz, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Kenneth Schermerhorn. She has been concertmaster and soloist with the New York Chamber Symphony, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Waterloo Festival Orchestra, and the New Haven and Syracuse symphony orchestras. She has appeared in concerto and chamber music performances with Szymon Goldberg, Henryk Szeryng, Broadus Erle, Leon Fleisher, Jaime Laredo, and many others. Proffessor Aki has been a member of the Yale faculty since 1968.

Janna Baty Assistant Professor (Adjunct) of Voice. Janna Baty, soprano, has garnered accolades internationally in her exceptionally versatile career. Recent engagements include appearances with the Hamburgische Staatsoper, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Tallahassee Symphony, Hartford Symphony, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá (Colombia), Eugene Opera, Opera North, and Boston Lyric Opera. Equally at home in standard repertoire and new music, she appears regularly with such noted contemporary ensembles as Collage New Music, Auros Group for New Music, and Boston Modern Orchestra Project. She has sung under Seiji Ozawa, Michel Plasson, Carl Davis, Robert Spano, Steuart Bedford, and Christopher Lyndon Gee, among others. She has appeared with the Aldeburgh and Britten festivals in England, the Semanas Musicales de Frutillar Festival in Chile, and the Tanglewood and Norfolk festivals in the United States. Winner of several international competitions, most notably the XXI International Music Competition “Dr. Luis Sigall” (Chile), Professor Baty is also an accomplished recitalist and chamber musician. She has given concerts across Europe, the U.S., and South America, in the company of such distinguished musicians as violist Nobuko Imai, pianists Claude Frank and Peter Frankl, and guitarist Stephen Marchionda. She has worked alongside many composers, including Bernard Rands, Sydney Hodkinson, Peter Child, Christopher Lyndon Gee, Fred Lerdahl, Yehudi Wyner, and John Harbison, in performances of their music. She can also be heard on Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s Naxos disc of works by Reza Vali. An alumna of Oberlin College and the Yale School of Music, she is married to acclaimed jazz guitarist and singer Doug Wamble.

Boris Berman Professor in the Practice of Piano. Well known to the audiences of more than forty countries on six continents, Professor Berman regularly appears with leading orchestras, on major recital series, and in important festivals. He studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with the distinguished pianist Lev Oborin. An active recording artist and a Grammy nominee, Mr. Berman was the first pianist to record the complete solo works of Prokofiev (Chandos). Other acclaimed releases include all piano sonatas by Alexander Scriabin (Music and Arts) and a recital of Shostakovich piano works (Ottavo), which received the Edison Classic Award in Holland, the Dutch equivalent of the Grammy. The recording of three Prokofiev concertos with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi conducting (Chandos), was named the Compact Disc of the Month by CD Review. Other recordings include works by Mozart, Beethoven, Franck, Weber, Debussy, Stravinsky, Schnittke, Shostakovich, Joplin, and Cage. In 1984 Mr. Berman joined the faculty of the Yale School of Music, where he is coordinator of the Piano department and music director of the Horowitz Piano Series. He was the founding director of the Yale Summer Piano Institute and of the International Summer Piano Institute in Hong Kong. He also gives master classes throughout the world, and in 2005 he was given the title of honorary professor of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In 2000 Yale University Press published Mr. Berman’s Notes from the Pianist’s Bench, which has been translated into several languages. His new book, Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas, has just been published by Yale Univeresity Press.

Robert Blocker Henry and Lucy Moses Dean of Music. Robert Blocker is acknowledged as one of the nation’s leading arts administrators. He holds appointments of Professor of Piano and a joint appointment as an Adjunct Professor with Yale University’s School of Management. Before assuming his current position in July of 1995, he was the founding dean of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, where he held a joint appointment in the Anderson School of Management, teaching arts administration. Following baccalaureate studies at Furman University (B.A., 1968), Dean Blocker earned graduate degrees (M.M., 1970; D.M.A., 1972) at the University of North Texas. He was a fellow at the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard in 1986 and is the recipient of three honorary degrees. In 2006, he was named honorary professor of piano at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. His many contributions to the music community include service on the advisory boards for the Avery Fisher Artist program and the Stoeger Prize at Lincoln Center, the Gilmore Artist Advisory Board, and the Curatorium of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music. He was featured in the Steinway & Sons 2000 film commemorating the tercentennial year of the piano. He appears regularly on national radio and television as an artist and commentator and is active as a consultant to major educational institutions and government agencies. Under his leadership, the Yale School of Music endowment has grown from $29 million to $365 million, including a transformative anonymous gift of $100 million. During his tenure as dean there have been unprecedented renovations on the School of Music’s campus, including the enhancement of the Center for Study of Music Technology that permits students, faculty, and administration to communicate via real-time broadcasting with institutions around the world. Other notable renovations include those of Sprague Memorial Hall and Leigh Hall. The planning process for the Hendrie Hall renovation project has begun, and this effort will bring to completion the renovation and renewal of all School of Music facilities. Robert Blocker is highly regarded internationally for his artistry as a concert pianist. Recent orchestral engagements include the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony, Monterey Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, and the Prague and Moscow Chamber Orchestras. His recordings include a Naxos CD of three Mozart concerti performed with the Biava Quartet.

Martin Bresnick Charles T. Wilson Professor in the Practice of Composition. Professor Bresnick’s music has been performed in festivals and concerts throughout the world. He has been acclaimed for compositions in virtually every medium from chamber and symphonic music to film and computer music. He has won numerous honors including the Rome Prize, the Stoeger Prize for Chamber Music from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the first Charles Ives Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Aaron Copland Award for teaching from ASCAP, a Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was recently elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has had commissions from the Koussevitzky and Fromm foundations, Chamber Music America, Meet-the-Composer, the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as individual ensembles and performers. His work is represented by Carl Fischer Music Publishers and is recorded by CRI, New World, Centaur, Artifact Music, and Albany Records. He joined the Yale faculty in 1981 and is currently the coordinator of the Composition department.

Jeffrey Brillhart Visiting Lecturer in Organ Improvisation. Jeffrey Brillhart has performed throughout the United States, South America, South Africa, and Europe as conductor and organist and is known for his musical versatility. He was awarded first place at the American Guild of Organists National Competition in Organ Improvisation in 1994. Mr. Brillhart is director of music and fine arts at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, where he oversees music, education, and arts programs that involve more than 500 children, youth, and adults each week. He is also music director of Philadelphia’s acclaimed Singing City Choir, one of the first integrated community choirs in the United States. At Singing City he follows a distinguished line of conductors that includes Elaine Brown and Joseph Flummerfelt. Under his direction, his choral ensembles have performed with the Kronos Quartet, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Bobbie McFerrin, Dave Brubeck, Helmuth Rilling, and Rossen Milanov, and on tours to Cuba, Northern Ireland, and, in the 2008 season, Brazil. Mr. Brillhart maintains an active schedule as conductor, organist, and clinician, most recently at the Curtis Institute of Music, Eastman School of Music, Westminster Choir College, Furman University, Walla Walla College, and Baylor University. M.M., Eastman School of Music.

Marguerite Brooks Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Choral Conducting. Professor Brooks holds degrees from Mount Holyoke College and Temple University. She has served on the faculties of Smith and Amherst colleges and was also director of choral music at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The conductor of the Yale Camerata and Yale Pro Musica, Professor Brooks joined the Yale faculty in 1985 as the director of the choral conducting program at the School of Music and the director of choral music at the Institute of Sacred Music. She is active as a guest conductor and gives master classes sponsored by the American Choral Directors Association, the Music Educators National Conference, and the American Guild of Organists, and is director of music at the Church of the Redeemer in New Haven.

Simon Carrington Professor in the Practice of Choral Conducting and Director of the Yale Schola Cantorum. Professor Carrington also led the School’s introduction of a new graduate voice degree for singers specializing in early music, oratorio, and chamber ensemble. From 2001 until his Yale appointment in 2003, he was director of choral activities at the New England Conservatory, and from 1994 to 2001 he held a similar position at the University of Kansas. Prior to coming to the United States, he was a creative force for twenty-five years with the internationally acclaimed British vocal ensemble the King’s Singers, which he co-founded at Cambridge University. He gave 3,000 performances at many of the world’s most prestigious festivals and concert halls, made more than seventy recordings, and appeared on television and radio programs including nine appearances on the Tonight Show with the late Johnny Carson. He maintains an active schedule as a freelance conductor and choral clinician, leading workshops and master classes around the world. He has conducted the Monteverdi Vespers in Barcelona, the Fauré Requiem in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, Beethoven’s Meeresstille with the Texas All State Choir, Handel’s Messiah in Dublin, and the Rachmaninov Vespers in Victoria, B.C., with singers from all over Canada. He is a regular guest conductor at the Monteverdi Choir Festival in Budapest and the Tokyo Cantat in Japan, and leads annual workshops at the Chamber Choir Festival in Sarteano (Italy) and the Yale Summer School in Norfolk, Connecticut. He has taken Yale Schola Cantorum to perform at the two major choral conventions in the U.S., and he has recorded Baroque masterpieces by Bach, Biber, and Bertali with the ensemble. In 2008 he conducted at the International Choir Festival in Szczecin, Poland, conducted the Choir and Rebel Baroque Orchestra at Trinity Church Wall Street and the Desert Chorale in Santa Fe, N.M., and returned as president of the international jury at the choral festival in Leipzig, Germany.

Lili Chookasian Professor (Adjunct) of Voice. Professor Chookasian, contralto, made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1962. In this country, she has appeared with the Chicago Lyric, New York City, and San Francisco opera companies, among others. Abroad, she has performed in Bayreuth, Salzburg, Hamburg, Florence, Buenos Aires, Montreal, and Barcelona. She has sung with all of the major symphony orchestras in the United States, as well as with the Berlin Philharmonic, under the world’s most distinguished conductors. Professor Chookasian has recorded for CBS Masterworks, RCA, Columbia, Decca, MGM, and Deutsche Grammophon. In March 1985 she was selected by the American Vocal Academy to be in the newly initiated Hall of Fame of American Opera Singers. She taught voice at Northwestern University School of Music and in 1985 joined the faculty of the Yale School of Music, where she was awarded the Sanford Medal in 2002.

Richard Cross Lecturer in Voice. Bass Richard Cross made both his European and his New York debuts in 1958. He has appeared with numerous opera companies, including those of San Francisco, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Madrid, Cologne, Hamburg, Budapest, and Washington, as well as with the New York City Opera. Mr. Cross has appeared at the Glynebourne Festival, the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, and the Schwetzingen Festival. He has sung with many of the major symphony orchestras, including those of Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, and Pittsburgh. Mr. Cross has recorded for London Records, RCA, and Columbia. He is currently on the faculties of the Juilliard School and State University of New York at Stony Brook. He joined the Yale faculty in 1997.

Allan Dean Professor (Adjunct) of Trumpet. Professor Dean plays trumpet with Summit Brass, St. Louis Brass, and the Yale Brass Trio. In the field of early music, he was a founding member of Calliope: A Renaissance Band and the New York Cornet and Sacbut Ensemble. A member of the New York Brass Quintet for eighteen years, he was a freelance concert and recording artist in New York City for more than twenty years. He has served on the faculties of Indiana University, the Manhattan School of Music, the Hartt School, and the Eastman School. In 1988 Professor Dean joined the faculty of the Yale School of Music, where he coaches brass chamber music and directs the Yale Cornet and Sacbut Ensemble in addition to teaching trumpet. He performs and teaches each summer at the Mendez Brass Institute and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in Norfolk, Connecticut. He is a frequent soloist with Keith Brion’s New Sousa Band. He has also appeared at the Spoleto and Casals festivals, the Banff Centre (Canada), the Orford Arts Centre (Canada), Musiki Blekinge (Sweden), the Curitiba Music Festival (Brazil), and the Morella Festival (Spain). He can be heard playing both modern trumpet and early brass on more than eighty recordings on most major labels including RCA, Columbia, Nonesuch, and Summit. On early instruments he has recorded with Calliope, the New York Cornets and Sacbuts, the Waverly Consort, the Ensemble for Early Music, and the Smithsonian Chamber Players.

Douglas Dickson Lecturer in Voice and Opera. Pianist Douglas Dickson received his B.A. from Princeton University and his M.M.A. from the Yale School of Music. He has performed in Europe, Asia, South America, and throughout the United States. As part of Duodecaphonia, a prize-winning piano duo, he has performed at the Kennedy Center and elsewhere. As a vocal accompanist he has played for the master classes and studios of Sherrill Milnes, Renata Scotto, Régine Crespin, Carlo Bergonzi, and Licia Albanese. Mr. Dickson has been accompanist or music director for productions at Quinnipiac University, the Yale School of Drama, Opera Theater of Connecticut, Connecticut Experimental Theater, and Shubert Opera. He was music director and conductor for Yale Opera’s spring 2000 production of Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia. In 1997 and 1998 he performed and taught at the Itu Festival of Arts in Brazil. He has served for seven years on the faculty of Quinnipiac University, where he founded the Young Voices Competition. Mr. Dickson joined the Yale faculty in 1998.

Jeffrey Douma Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Choral Conducting and Director of the Yale Glee Club. Before assuming his present positions at the School in the fall of 2003, Professor Douma was director of choral activities at Carroll College and held faculty positions at Smith College and St. Cloud State University. He has appeared as guest conductor throughout the world with ensembles including the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Orchestra, Daejeon Philharmonic Choir, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Buenos Aires Philharmonic, Bahian Symphony Orchestra, and Windsor Symphony Orchestra, and also served for four years on the choral conducting faculty at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. Choirs under his direction have appeared in Leipzig’s Neue Gewandhaus, Prague’s Dvorak Hall, the Teatro Colon, Sydney Town Hall, Christchurch Cathedral, Avery Fisher Hall, and Carnegie Hall, and he has prepared choruses for such renowned conductors as Valery Gergiev, Sir David Willcocks, Sir Neville Marriner, Anton Nanut, Toshiyuki Shimada, Constantine Orbelian, Shinik Hahm, and Krzysztof Penderecki. An advocate of new music, he recently established the Yale Glee Club Emerging Composers Competition and Fenno Heath Award, and has premiered new works by Lee Hoiby, Dominick Argento, and James Macmillan. He serves as editor of the Yale Glee Club New Classics Choral Series published by Boosey & Hawkes. Professor Douma has appeared as an ensemble member and tenor soloist with many professional choirs, including the Dale Warland Singers, Bella Voce of Chicago, the Arcadia Players, the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus under Helmuth Rilling, and the Robert Shaw Festival Singers under Robert Shaw. In the spring of 2003, he was one of only two American conductors invited to compete for the first Eric Ericson Award, an international competition for choral conductors, advancing to the semifinal round in October, 2003, and appearing in Stockholm and Uppsala. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Concordia College and holds both Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in choral conducting from the University of Michigan.

Thomas C. Duffy Professor (Adjunct) of Music and Director of University Bands. A composer and conductor, Thomas Duffy served as acting dean of the School of Music in 2005–2006, having served as associate dean since 1996 and deputy dean since 1999. He has served as a member of the Fulbright National Selection Committee and a member of the Tanglewood II Symposium planning committee. He attended the Harvard University Institute for Management and Leadership in Education in 2005. He has served as president of the New England College Band Directors Association and the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) Eastern Division, editor of the CBDNA Journal, publicity chair for the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, and chair of the Connecticut Music Educators Association’s Professional Affairs and Government Relations committees, and he has represented music education in Yale’s Teacher Preparation Program. He is president elect of the College Band Directors National Association. He is a member of American Bandmasters Association, American Composers Alliance, Connecticut Composers Incorporated, and BMI. An active composer with a D.M.A. in composition from Cornell University, where he was a student of Karel Husa and Steven Stucky, he has accepted commissions from the American Composers Forum, the United States Military Academy at West Point, the U.S. Army Field Band, and many bands, choruses, and orchestras. He joined the Yale faculty in 1982.

Margot E. Fassler Robert Tangeman Professor of Music History. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Professor Fassler studies medieval and American sacred music and the liturgy of the Latin Middle Ages; her subspecialties are liturgical drama of the Middle Ages and Mariology. Her book Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris has received awards from both the American Musicological Society and the Medieval Academy of America. She has edited a volume on the divine office (Oxford University Press), and has just completed a book on the cult of the Virgin Mary at Chartres (forthcoming from Yale University Press). She is the author of numerous articles on a broad range of topics and is currently preparing a book on the twelfth-century theologian, exegete, and composer Hildegard of Bingen, and a textbook for W. W. Norton. Her book (edited with Harold Attridge) Psalms in Community is now being reprinted and will be sold by the Society of Biblical Literature alongside her latest film, Joyful Noise: Psalms in Community. Under the auspices of a grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc., Professor Fassler continues to work with congregations and practitioners to make videos of sacred music in its liturgical contexts. She earned a B.A. from the State University of New York, the M.A. from Syracuse University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University.

Claude Frank Professor (Adjunct) of Music. During one of the most distinguished careers of any pianist, Claude Frank has repeatedly appeared with the world’s foremost ensembles, at major festivals, and in major recital halls around the globe. Born in Nuremberg, Mr. Frank studied at the Paris Conservatoire, and also worked in New York with Artur Schnabel, for whom he first played in Europe. He studied composition and conducting at Columbia University. At Tanglewood he studied with Serge Koussevitzky. He has performed worldwide as a soloist with distinguished orchestras, touring the Far East, Australia, Europe, Israel, and South America, and in chamber music concerts. A milestone in his career was RCA’s release of his recordings of the thirty-two Beethoven sonatas and his worldwide performances of the cycle. He has appeared in joint concerts with his wife, pianist Lillian Kallir, and with his daughter, the renowned violinist Pamela Frank. Mr. Frank serves on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and presents master classes at Yale University, Duke University, the University of Kansas, and the North Carolina School of the Arts, among many other institutions. He has been on the piano faculty of the Yale School of Music since 1973.

Peter Frankl Visiting Professor (Adjunct) of Piano. Pianist Peter Frankl made his London debut in 1962 and his New York debut with the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell in 1967. Since that time he has performed with many of the world’s finest orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Concertgebouw, Israel Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, all the London orchestras, and the major American orchestras. He has collaborated with such eminent conductors as Abbado, Boulez, Davis, Haitink, Maazel, Masur, Muti, Salonen, and Solti. His world tours have taken him to Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, and he also frequently appears at European and American festivals. His many chamber music partners have included Kyung Wha Chung, Peter Csaba, Ralph Kirshbaum, and the Tokyo, Takacs, Guarneri, Bartók, Fine Arts, and Lindsay quartets. Among his recordings are the complete works for piano by Schumann and Debussy, Bartók and Chopin solo albums, a Hungarian anthology, concertos and four-hand works by Mozart, the two Brahms piano concertos, the Brahms violin and clarinet sonatas, the Brahms trios, Bartók pieces for violin and piano, and the piano quintets by Brahms, Schumann, Dvorák, Martinu, and both Dohnányis. In recognition of his artistic achievements, Mr. Frankl was awarded the Officer’s Cross by the Hungarian Republic and on his seventieth birthday he was given one of the highest civilian awards in Hungary for his lifetime artistic achievement in the world of music. He joined the Yale faculty in 1987.

Michael Friedmann Professor (Adjunct) of Music. Professor Friedmann’s career has encompassed activities as a theorist, pianist, pedagogue, and composer. His specialties involve analytical articles about the music of Schoenberg and performances of that composer’s complete piano music. He has evolved a method in teaching ear training especially focused on twentieth-century music, and wrote a book (Ear Training for 20th Century Music, published by Yale University Press) that received special recognition from the Society of Music Theory. In addition to Schoenberg, his piano performances have focused on late Beethoven and Schubert. He specializes in classes relating the analysis of Brahms’s and Schumann’s chamber music to their performance. In addition to his teaching at Yale, Professor Friedmann recently taught at Beijing University and at that city’s Central Conservatory of Music, and lectured and performed at the Beijing Modern Music Festival.

Shinik Hahm Professor in the Practice of Conducting and Music Director of the Yale Philharmonia. A sought-after guest conductor, Professor Hahm has led major North American, South American, European, and Far Eastern orchestras. Recent appearances include debuts in Geneva, Switzerland, and Besançon, France; at Bolshoi Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia, with the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra; and reengagement with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at Disney Hall. In 2006 Maestro Hahm completed his tenure as artistic director/principal conductor of Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra (DPO) in Korea, which he led in major concert halls on tour in the United States and Japan. He served concurrently as music director of the Abilene Philharmonic Orchestra (1993–2003) and the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra (1995–2000). During his tenure he successfully elevated these community orchestras to professional regional orchestra status. Professor Hahm served as music director of Yale Symphony Orchestra from 1995 to 2004. As a guest conductor, he has led the orchestras of Atlanta, Los Angeles, Warsaw, Prague, Bilbao, New York, Bangkok, Fort Worth, Louisville, Toronto, Omaha, Hartford, Alabama, Boulder, and Colorado Springs and other orchestras in the United States, France, Switzerland, Hungary, Austria, Spain, Japan, and Mexico. The Korean National Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra has engaged him every year since 1992, and he directed its 1995 North American tour in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Korean independence. He is also an active opera conductor and has led numerous productions with the Silesian National Opera in Poland, has collaborated with prominent musicians including Salvatore Accardo, Emanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Yefim Bronfman, and Sarah Chang, to name a few, and has recorded with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra for Vision and Britstar. Shinik Hahm studied conducting at Rice University and the Eastman School of Music. His honors include the Fourth Gregor Fitelberg International Competition, the Walter Hagen Conducting Prize from the Eastman School of Music, and the Shepherd Society Award from Rice University. In 1995 he was decorated by the Korean government with the Arts & Culture Medal at a ceremony in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Korean independence.

June Han Lecturer in Harp. Born to Korean diplomat parents, June Han lived in Belgium, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, the Netherlands, and France prior to her arrival in the United States in 1994. She holds a Premier Prix for harp and for chamber music from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, a Master of Music and Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Juilliard School. She was a student of Marie-Claire Jamet and Nancy Allen. She performs extensively in Korea, France, and New York City with Ensemble Sospeso, Sequitur Ensemble, Ensemble 21, and Manhattan Sinfonietta. She has collaborated with the Chamber Music Society Two Program, Sea Cliff Chamber Players, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Cygnus Ensemble, and Speculum Musicae, and regularly performs with Music from Japan, the Group for Contemporary Music, Azure Ensemble, Jupiter Chamber Players, and Bronx Art Ensemble. Ms. Han is an active orchestral player and has collaborated with the Orchestre de Paris, New York City Opera and Kirov Opera orchestras, and Sinfonieorchester Basel. Her frequent appearances with the New York Philharmonic include tours in Europe and Asia. She has appeared at the Aspen and Tanglewood festivals in the United States and the Villecroze, Gargilesse, and Nice festivals in France. She played as a soloist with the Young Artists Orchestra in Aspen, the Colonial Symphony Orchestra in Morristown, N.J., the Durham-Oshawa Symphony Orchestra in Canada, and the OK Mozart Festival in Oklahoma. She has recorded extensively the music of living and modern composers and has premiered works by her mother, Young-Ja Lee, Charles Wuorinen, and Hyo-Shin Na, among others. Ms. Han is currently on the faculties of Yale School of Music, Columbia University, Pre-College Division at the Juilliard School, and Bowdoin International Music Festival. She occasionally holds master classes in her native Korea.

Scott Hartman Lecturer in Trombone. Mr. Hartman, who joined the Yale faculty in 2001, received his B.M. and M.M. degrees from the Eastman School of Music and began his career by joining the Empire Brass Quintet and the Boston University faculty in 1984. As a trombone soloist and with his various chamber groups, Mr. Hartman has taught and played concerts throughout the world and in all fifty states. He regularly performs and records wiht the Yale Brass Trio, Proteus 7, the Millennium Brass, the Brass Band of Battle Creek, and the trombone quartet Four of a Kind. Mr. Hartman spends several weeks each summer in residence at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.

Paul Hawkshaw Professor in the Practice of Musicology and Director of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Recognized as an authority on the music of Anton Bruckner, Professor Hawkshaw’s publications include seven volumes of the composer’s collected works (Vienna), which are performed by major orchestras and choruses throughout the world. His articles have appeared in The Musical Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Music, and the Oesterreichische Musikzeitschrift, and he wrote the Bruckner biography for Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians. In 1996 he was invited by the Austrian National Library, Vienna, to give the commemorative address celebrating the centenary of the composer’s death. Since coming to Yale in 1984, Professor Hawkshaw has taken an active interest in community affairs and public education in New Haven. He was co-founder of a program involving Yale music faculty and students in the curriculum at the local Co-operative High School for the Arts. In 1998 the program was recognized by Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley as a model of how music plays an integral role in improving overall education standards. Most recently he worked with the New Haven Board of Education and the Yale College Class of ’57 to establish a music and literacy program at an inner-city public elementary school. This led to the creation of an endowment of $6 million by the Class of ’57 to support public school music education. Paul Hawkshaw has been awarded the Yale School of Music’s highest honor, the Sanford Medal, for his scholarship and community service. Born in Toronto, Canada, Professor Hawkshaw received his Ph.D. in musicology from Columbia University in 1984. He has recently completed a new edition of Anton Bruckner’s Mass in F minor that received its premiere in Vienna’s Grosse Musikvereinsaal in June 2008, and his critical edition of the composer’s Eighth Symphony is in progress. In 2007 he was appointed co-editor of Wiener Bruckner Studien, published under the auspices of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is currently working on a biography of the composer for Yale University Press.

Robert Holzer Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Music History. A specialist in the music of the Italian Baroque and the Second Viennese School, Mr. Holzer received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and has served on the faculties of Rutgers University, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago. He taught in the Yale University Department of Music from 1997 until he joined the School of Music faculty in 2005. His work has been published in Cambridge Opera Journal, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music & Letters, Il saggiatore musicale, Studi musicali. He serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of Musicology and Journal of the American Musicological Society, and is a musical commentator for Radiotelevisione Italiana.

Martin D. Jean Professor of Organ and Director of the Institute of Sacred Music. Professor Jean has performed widely throughout the United States and Europe and is known for his wide repertorial interests. He was awarded first place at the international Grand Prix de Chartres in 1986, and in 1992 at the National Young Artists’ Competition in Organ Performance. A student of Robert Glasgow, in the fall of 1999 he spent a sabbatical with Harald Vogel in North Germany. He has performed on four continents and nearly all fifty states. In 2001 he completed a cycle of the complete organ works of Bach at Yale, and his compact discs of The Seven Last Words of Christ by Charles Tournemire and the complete Six Symphonies of Louis Vierne, both recorded in Woolsey Hall, have been released by Loft Recordings. Recordings of the organ symphonies and Stations of the Cross of Marcel Dupré are forthcoming on the Delos label. Martin Jean earned the A.Mus.D. from the University of Michigan.

Hyo Kang Professsor (Adjunct) of Violin. Professor Kang has had a flourishing and versatile career as performer, teacher, and artistic director for the past three decades. He makes regular concert tours in the United States, Europe, Asia, Canada, and Central America. As a member of the highly acclaimed Theatre Chamber Players of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. for more than twenty years, he has given many works their American premieres. Hyo Kang joined the Yale faculty in 2006. He has been on the faculty of the Juilliard School since 1978, and was on the faculty of the Aspen Music School in Colorado from 1978 to 2005. His students have distinguished themselves with top prizes at the world’s most prestigious competitions and are performing with major orchestras worldwide. His former students include Gil Shaham, Sarah Chang, and Chee-Yun. He was born in Seoul, Korea, and graduated from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Dorothy DeLay. In 1995 Professor Kang founded Sejong, which has performed more than 300 concerts on major stages around the world and is in its thirteenth season. In March 2003 Professor Kang was appointed Honorary Ambassador by the Governor of Gangwon Province, Korea and was asked to bring the first international music festival to PyeongChang. He launched the Great Mountains Music Festival and School in August 2004 and serves as its artistic director. In the past few years, he was the subject of four television documentaries including KBS-TV’s Teaching Genius: Juilliard Professor Hyo Kang. In 2004 the Korean government awarded him the National Arts Medal.

Ani Kavafian Professor in the Practice of Violin. Professor Kavafian, violinist, has enjoyed a career as soloist with major orchestras, chamber musician, and recitalist. She is also in great demand as a teacher, having taught at Mannes and Manhattan schools of music, Queens College, McGill, and Stony Brook universities. In 2006 she was appointed Professor in the Practice of Violin at Yale. Ms. Kavafian has appeared as soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras as well as the Los Angeles and St. Paul chamber orchestras. Along with her sister, Ida, she has appeared around the country in recital and as soloists with orchestras. As an artist of the Chamber Music Society since 1979, Professor Kavafian continues to tour the United States, Canada, and the Far East. She is also a member of Trio da Salo with violist Barbara Westphal and cellist Gustav Rivinius and is a founding member of the Triton Horn Trio with William Purvis and Mihae Lee. Ms. Kavafian performs frequently with clarinetist David Shifrin and pianist Andre-Michel Schub. Along with cellist Carter Brey, she is the artistic director of the New Jersey chamber music series Mostly Music A 1979 recipient of the Avery Fisher Prize, she has appeared at the White House on three separate occasions and has been featured on many network and PBS television music specials. Recently, Ms. Kavafian and Kenneth Cooper released a live recording of Bach’s Six Sonatas on the Kleos Classics label. In 2007, a recording of Mozart Piano and Violin Sonatas with pianist Jorge Federico Osorio was released by Artek. In the summer of 2008 she traveled to nine music festivals from Oregon to Italy. Ms. Kavafian serves as a guest concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and will perform as soloist with that orchestra in 2009. This year the Kavafian sisters celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of their first recital in Carnegie Hall with a performance at the Ethical Culture Society presented by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Aaron Jay Kernis Professor (Adjunct) of Composition. A winner of the coveted 2002 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition and one of the youngest composers ever awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Professor Kernis has taught composition at the Yale School of Music since 2003. His music figures prominently on orchestral, chamber, and recital programs worldwide and he has been commissioned by many of America‘s foremost performing artists, including sopranos Renée Fleming and Dawn Upshaw, violinists Joshua Bell and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, and guitarist Sharon Isbin, and by institutions including the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Birmingham Bach Choir, Minnesota Orchestra, and Los Angeles and Saint Paul chamber orchestras, the Walt Disney Company, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Rose Center for Earth and Space at the Museum of Natural History in New York. He was awarded the Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize, and he received Grammy nominations for “Air” and his Second Symphony. He served as composer-in-residence for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Public Radio, and the American Composers Forum, and, since 1998, as new music adviser to the Minnesota Orchestra, a position he retains today. He is chairman and co-director of the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute. His music is available on Nonesuch, Phoenix, New Albion and Argo and CRI.

Eugene Kimball Lecturer in Sound Recording. Mr. Kimball has served as recording engineer at the Yale School of Music since 1972. He regularly records Yale concerts for broadcast on National Public Radio and has engineered more than 250 commercial recordings. His recording of the Yale Cello Ensemble was nominated for a Grammy award in 1988. He became a lecturer at the School of Music in 1981.

Ezra Laderman Professor of Composition. A distinguished and widely performed composer, Professor Laderman has composed works commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony; the orchestras of Minnesota, Dallas, Louisville, Houston, Detroit, Albany, Denver, New Jersey, Indianapolis, Syracuse, and New Haven; and the New York City, Turnau, and Tri-Cities operas. He has also written works for such chamber ensembles as the Tokyo, Juilliard, Concord, Colorado, Lenox, Vermeer, Audubon, and Composers quartets and for soloists Yo-Yo Ma, Judith Raskin, Elmar Oliveira, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Samuel Baron, Sherrill Milnes, Emanuel Ax, Eugene List, Ronald Roseman, Bernard Garfield, and Ilana Vered, among others. In February 2003 the Pittsburgh Symphony with Gunter Herbig conducting and Richard Page as soloist premiered Ezra Laderman’s Concerto for Bass Clarinet and Orchestra. He is the recipient of three Guggenheim Fellowships, the Prix de Rome, and Rockefeller and Ford Foundation grants. He has served as president of the National Music Council, chair of the American Composers Orchestra, director of the NEA Music Program, and president of the American Music Center. He was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1989 and became its president in 2006. From 1989 to 1995 he served as dean of the Yale School of Music.

David Lang Professor (Adjunct) of Composition. The music of David Lang has been performed by major musical, dance, and theatrical organizations throughout the world, including the Santa Fe Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Kronos Quartet, the Nederlands Dans Theater, and the Royal Ballet, and has been performed in the most renowned concert halls and festivals in the United States and Europe. He is well known as co-founder and co-artistic director of New York’s legendary music festival Bang on a Can. In 2008 Professor Lang was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for The Little Match Girl Passion, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for Paul Hillier’s vocal ensemble, Theater of Voices. He has also been honored with the Rome Prize, the BMW Music-Theater Prize (Munich), a Kennedy Center/Friedheim Award, the Revson Fellowship with the New York Philharmonic, a Bessie Award, a Village Voice OBIE Award, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work is recorded on the Sony Classical, Teldec, BMG, Point, Chandos, Argo/Decca, Caprice, Koch, Albany, CRI, and Cantaloupe labels. David Lang holds degrees from Stanford University and the University of Iowa, and received the D.M.A. from the Yale School of Music in 1989. He has studied with Jacob Druckman, Hans Werner Henze, and Martin Bresnick. His music is published by Red Poppy (ASCAP) and is distributed worldwide by G. Schirmer, Inc. David Lang joined the Yale faculty in 2008.

Jesse Levine Professor in the Practice of Viola and Coordinator of the String department at the Yale School of Music. A violist and conductor, Professor Levine joined the School of Music in 1983. He is also music director and conductor of the New Britain Symphony in Connecticut. Professor Levine has been music director of the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta del Principado de Asturias in Spain, the Chappaqua Orchestra, and the Feld Ballet. He was principal violist of the Buffalo, Dallas, Baltimore, and New Jersey symphony orchestras and has appeared as conductor or as viola soloist, recitalist, or chamber musician in Europe, South America, Israel, Australia, Mexico and throughout the United States. As a guest conductor, he has appeared with many orchestras in the United States and abroad. Known for his work in contemporary music, he has frequently been invited to conduct the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in its annual North American New Music Festival, and continues to participate in the annual June-in-Buffalo Festival. With the June-in-Buffalo Festival Orchestra he recently made the first recording of Morton Feldman’s “The Viola in My Life” (IV for EMF). In the dual role as conductor/teacher, he has conducted the National Youth Orchestra of Spain in Madrid, the Youth Orchestra of Andalucia in Seville, and the Youth Orchestra of Catalonia in Barcelona. As a member of the Bruch Trio he has recorded the music of Bruch, Clarke, Francaix, Jacob, and Mozart for Summit Records. Professor Levine has been a member of the faculties of the State University of New York at Buffalo, Stony Brook, and Purchase, and at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore. He presented viola master classes at conservatories and festivals in Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, Morella, Segorbe, San Sebastián, Cartegena, and Vitoria (Spain), Festival Flaine Musique (France), and the Paris and Lyon conservatories of music.

Judith Malafronte Lecturer in Voice. Judith Malafronte, mezzo-soprano, has an active career as a soloist in opera, oratorio, and recital. She has appeared with the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the St. Louis Symphony, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Handel and Haydn Society, and Mark Morris Dance Group. She has sung at the Tanglewood Festival, the Boston Early Music Festival, the Utrecht Early Music Festival, and the Göttingen Handel Festival. Winner of several top awards in Italy, Spain, Belgium, and the United States, including the Grand Prize at the International Vocal Competition in Hertogenbosch, Holland, Ms. Malafronte holds degrees with honors from Vassar College and Stanford University, and studied at the Eastman School of Music, in Paris and Fontainebleau with Mlle. Nadia Boulanger, and with Giulietta Simionato in Milan as a Fulbright scholar. She has recorded for major labels in a broad range of repertoire, from medieval chant to contemporary music, and her writings have appeared in Opera News, Stagebill, Islands, Early Music America Magazine, Schwann Inside, and Opus.

Ingram Marshall Visiting Lecturer in Composition. Composer Ingram Marshall lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1973 to 1985 and in Washington State, where he taught at Evergreen State College, until 1989. His current base is Connecticut. He studied at Columbia University and California Institute of the Arts, where he received an M.F.A., and has been a student of Indonesian gamelan music, the infiuence of which may be heard in the slowed-down sense of time and use of melodic repetition found in many of his pieces. In the mid-seventies he developed a series of “live electronic” pieces such as Fragility Cycles, Gradual Requiem, and Alcatraz in which he blended tape collages, extended vocal techniques, Indonesian flutes, and keyboards. He performed widely in the United States and Europe with these works. In recent years he has concentrated on music combining tape and electronic processing with ensembles and soloists. His music has been performed by ensembles and orchestras such as the Theater of Voices, Kronos Quartet, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, and American Composers Orchestra. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Fromm Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Recent recordings are on Nonesuch (Kingdom Come) and New Albion (Savage Waters). Among recent chamber works are Muddy Waters, which was commissioned and performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, and In Deserto (Smoke Creek), commissioned by Chamber Music America for the ensemble Clogs. January 2004 saw the premiere of Bright Kingdoms, commissioned by Magnum Opus/Meet the Composer, and performed by the Oakland-East Bay Symphony under Michael Morgan. The American Composers Orchestra in New York premiered his new concerto for two guitars and orchestra, Dark Florescence, at Carnegie Hall in February 2005. Orphic Memories, commissioned by the Cheswatyr Foundation, was composed for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and premiered in Carnegie Hall in April 2007.

Robert Mealy Professor (Adjunct) of Early Music. One of America’s leading historical string players, Robert Mealy has been praised by the Boston Globe for his “imagination, taste, subtlety, and daring,” and The New Yorker called him “a world-class early music violinist.” He has performed on more than fifty recordings on most major labels, in works ranging from Hildegard of Bingen with Sequentia and Renaissance consorts with the Boston Camerata to Rameau operas with Les Arts Florissants. In New York he is a frequent leader and soloist with the New York Collegium, ARTEK, Early Music New York, and the Clarion Society. He also leads the distinguished Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra and has appeared as guest concertmaster and director with the Phoenix Symphony. A devoted chamber musician, he is a member of the medieval ensemble Fortune’s Wheel, the Renaissance violin band The King’s Noyse, and the seventeenth-century ensemble Spiritus Collective. Since 2002 he has performed frequently at Yale as director of the Yale Collegium Musicum players, and he received Early Music America’s Binkley Award for outstanding teaching at Yale and Harvard in 2004. He joined the School of Music faculty in 2008.

Frank Morelli Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Music. A former student of Stephen Maxym at the Manhattan and Juilliard schools of music, Professor Morelli holds the distinction of being the first bassoonist to be awarded a doctorate by the Juilliard School. He has appeared as a soloist in New York’s Carnegie Hall on nine occasions. Active internationally as a soloist and with chamber and orchestral ensembles, he has over one hundred fifty recordings for major record labels to his credit. His performances and recording of the Mozart bassoon concerto with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra on the DG label met with international critical acclaim, and his recording of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for winds and orchestra with Orpheus for Nonesuch Records was named Recording of Special Merit by Stereo Review. Mr. Morelli’s recording with Orpheus of music by Stravinsky, “Shadow Dances,” won a Grammy in 2001. In addition to two solo CDs on MSR Classics, “Bassoon Brasileiro” and “Baroque Fireworks,” he recently released “Romance and Caprice,” also on MSR Classics, with Gilbert Kalish, piano. Mr. Morelli has appeared often with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, including at the final state dinner of the Clinton presidency. He is principal bassoonist of the New York City Opera Orchestra, Orpheus, and the American Composers Orchestra, and is a member of the acclaimed woodwind quintet Windscape. He is the editor of Stravinsky: Difficult Passages, a collection of excerpts published by Boosey and Hawkes, and has written several transcriptions for bassoon and for woodwind quintet, published by TrevCo. He also serves on the faculties of the Juilliard School, SUNY Stony Brook, and the Manhattan School of Music. His popular Web site, www.morellibassoon.com, includes a “cyber master class” in which he shares information about reeds and bassoon playing. Mr. Morelli joined the Yale faculty in 1994.

Thomas Murray Professor in the Practice of Organ and University Organist. A graduate of Occidental College, Professor Murray has been a member of the Yale faculty since 1981, was appointed University organist in 1990, and is chair of the program in organ. Successor to Charles Krigbaum and Robert Baker as the senior professor of organ, he teaches the Organ Literature Seminar and gives instruction to graduate organ majors. His performing career has taken him to all parts of Europe and to Japan, Australia, and Argentina. He has appeared as a soloist with the Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, and New Haven symphony orchestras, the National Chamber Orchestra in Washington, D.C., and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra during their tour of Finland in 1996. The American Guild of Organists named him International Performer of the Year in 1986; as a recipient of this distinction he joined such luminaries as Marie-Claire Alain, Jean Guillou, and Dame Gillian Weir. The Royal College of Organists in England awarded him an FRCO diploma honoris causa in 2003. At the School of Music commencement in 2005 he was awarded the Gustave Stoeckel Award for distinguished teaching.

Peter Oundjian Professor (Adjunct) of Music. Violinist Peter Oundjian studied at the Royal College of Music in London, England. After winning the Gold Medal there, he went on to the Juilliard School in 1975 to study with Ivan Galamian. He also worked with Itzhak Perlman, Dorothy DeLay, and members of the Juilliard String Quartet. In 1980 Professor Oundjian won first prize in the International Violin Competition in Vina del Mar, Chile. He performed as recitalist throughout North America under the sponsorship of the Pro Musicis Foundation, making his New York recital debut in 1981. He has soloed with the Boston Pops and the Toronto, Montreal, and Winnipeg symphony orchestras, the National Arts Center Orchestra, and the Calgary Philharmonic. He was first violinist of the Tokyo String Quartet from 1981 to 1995. His formal conducting debut was in 1995 with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Since then he has conducted the Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, St. Louis, Houston, Cincinnati, and Berlin symphony orchestras, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Zurich Tonhalle, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He is the music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, artistic director of the Caramoor Festival, and artistic director and principal guest conductor of the Detroit Symphony. He has been on the School of Music faculty since 1981.

Donald Palma Assistant Professor (Adjunct) of Double Bass. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Professor Palma studied with Frederick Zimmermann, Robert Brennand, Orin O’Brien, and Homer Mensch. A former member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he has also been principal bass of Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and the American Composers Orchestra. He is currently solo bassist of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with which he has toured Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States, and recorded over fifty compact discs for Deutsche Grammophon. Professor Palma has performed with the Juilliard Quartet, the Nash Ensemble, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Da Camera Society of Houston, and in recital with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Jean-Pierre Rampal, and Jan DeGaetani. He was music director of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and is currently bassist and conductor of Speculum Musicae. Mr. Palma records extensively for CRI, Bridge, New World, Nonesuch, Sony, and Koch International. He has given master classes at the Toho School, the Juilliard School, Rice University, the San Francisco Conservatory, and the Manhattan School of Music. Mr. Palma joined the Yale faculty in 1992.

Joan Panetti Sylvia and Leonard Marx Professor in the Practice of Hearing and Chamber Music. Joan Panetti, pianist and composer, garnered first prizes at the Peabody Conservatory and the Conservatoire de Musique in Paris, received her B.A. degree from Smith College and her D.M.A. degree from the Yale School of Music. She taught at Swarthmore College, Princeton University, and the Department of Music at Yale University before joining the faculty of the School of Music. Her principal mentors were Olivier Messiaen, Yvonne Loriod, Wilhelm Kempff, Alvin Etler, Mel Powell, and Donald Currier. She has toured extensively in the United States and Europe and performs frequently in chamber music ensembles. She has recently recorded a disc of works by Schumann, Schubert, Debussy, and Gershwin with violinist Syoko Aki on the Epson label. Her most recent compositions include a piano quintet, commissioned by Music Accord, which she performed with the Tokyo String Quartet; a piano trio, commissioned by the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble and performed by members of the ensemble with the composer at the piano; “A gust inside the god,” for chorus and chamber ensemble, commissioned and premiered by the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in 2006; Fanfare for six trumpets, premiered in 2007 at the International Trumpet Guild; “Lobgesang for Keith” for eight clarinetists, premiered at the International Clarinet Convention in 2007; “Within the cycles of our lives: Movement for String Quartet,” premiered by the Meritage Quartet in 2007; and “To the flashing water say: I am,” premiered by the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in 2008. A renowned teacher, Professor Panetti has developed a nationally recognized course, Hearing, that emphasizes the interaction between performers and composers. In 2007, she conducted an interactive Hearing workshop at the National Conference of Chamber Music America and taught and coached at the Central Conservatory in Beiing, China. She is the recipient of the Luise Voschergian Award from Harvard University, the Nadia Boulanger Award from the Longy School of Music, and the Ian Minninberg Distinguished Alumni Award from the Yale School of Music. She was named the Sylvia and Leonard Marx Professor at Yale University in 2004.

Aldo Parisot Samuel Sanford Professor in the Practice of Cello. Long acknowledged as one of the world’s master cellists, Aldo Parisot has led the career of a complete artist—as concert soloist, chamber musician, recitalist, and teacher. He has been heard with the major orchestras of the world, including those of Berlin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Rio, Munich, Warsaw, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh, under the batons of such eminent conductors as Stokowski, Barbirolli, Bernstein, Mehta, Monteux, Paray, de Carvalho, Sawallisch, Hindemith, and Villa-Lobos. As an artist seeking to expand his instrument’s repertoire, Mr. Parisot has premiered numerous works for cello, written especially for him by such composers as Carmago Guarnieri, Quincy Porter, Alvin Etler, Claudio Santoro, Joan Panetti, Ezra Laderman, Yehudi Wyner, and Heitor Villa-Lobos, whose Cello Concerto No. 2, written for and dedicated to him, was premiered by Professor Parisot in his New York Philharmonic debut. Since then he has appeared with the Philharmonic on nearly a dozen occasions. He created a sensation when he introduced Donald Martino’s Parisonatina al’Dodecafonia at Tanglewood. Mr. Parisot has recorded for RCA Victor, Angel, Westminster, and Phonodisc. His Yale Cello Ensemble recording for Delos, Bach Bachianas, was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1988. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music from Shenandoah University in 1999, an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Penn State University in 2002, and the Award of Distinction from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England, in 2001. A Yale faculty member since 1958, Aldo Parisot received the Gustave Stoeckel Award in 2002.

Elizabeth Sawyer Parisot Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Piano. Pianist Elizabeth Parisot received her D.M.A. from the Yale School of Music in 1973 and has served on the faculty of the School since 1977. She has appeared in solo and chamber music concerts throughout the world, performing at such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center and the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the Hispanic Institute in Madrid, and the Jerusalem Music Center in Israel. With her husband, Brazilian cellist Aldo Parisot, she has toured extensively, joining him in sonata performances as well as in chamber music with other renowned artists. She served as coordinator and performing artist at the Aldo Parisot International Competitions and Courses in Brazil for several years and has also been a guest artist at the International Music Institute in Santander, Spain, the Banff Festival of the Arts in Alberta, Canada, and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Recent tours have included concerts in Korea and Italy with violinist Kyung Hak Yu and performances with faculty colleagues Erick Friedman and Aldo Parisot in Taiwan. She has also performed recently with Yo-Yo Ma, Janos Starker, and Ralph Kirshbaum. A collaborative artist with cellists for many years in concerts, master classes, and competitions worldwide, Professor Parisot was awarded the title “Grande Dame du Violoncelle” in 2007 by the Eva Janzer Memorial Cello Center at Indiana University “in recognition of her universal contributions to the art of cello playing and cellists.” Her numerous recordings include the two Brahms Sonatas for Cello and Piano with Aldo Parisot (Musical Heritage Society); music by Leo Ornstein and Alexei Haieff for cello and piano with Italo Babini (Serenus); Cellists from Yale, issued in Brazil (Phonodisc); the Yale Cellos of Aldo Parisot and The Yale Cellos Play Favorites (Delos); three CDs with Queen Elizabeth Competition winner Nai-Yuan Hu; a disc with cellist Carol Ou; music by Ezra Laderman with violinists Erick Friedman and Kyung Hak Yu and cellist Pansy Chang (Albany Records); and works by Strauss and Prokofiev with violinist Kyung-Hak Yu.

Vivian Perlis Senior Research Associate and Director of Oral History. Ms. Perlis, a historian of American music, specializes in the work of twentieth-century American composers. She is the founding director of Oral History American Music at Yale University, a project devoted to collecting and preserving recorded interviews of major figures in American music. She is known for her writings and productions, among them books on Charles Ives and Aaron Copland, and film biographies of Copland, Eubie Blake, and John Cage. Ms. Perlis is the co-author of the award-winning book and CD publication Composers’ Voices from Ives to Ellington, published by Yale University Press in 2005. In 2007 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for American Music.

William Purvis Lecturer in French Horn. A native of Western Pennylvania, Mr Purvis pursues a multifaceted career both in the U.S. and abroad as horn soloist, chamber musician, conductor, and educator. A passionate advocate of new music, Mr. Purvis has participated in numerous premieres as hornist and conductor, including horn concerti by Peter Lieberson and Bayan Northcott, trios for violin, horn, and piano by Poul Ruders and Paul Lansky, and Steven Stuckey’s Sonate en Forme de Préludes with Emanuel Ax in Carnegie Hall. Mr. Purvis is a member of the New York Woodwind Quintet, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Yale Brass Trio, the Triton Horn Trio and is an emeritus member of Orpheus. A frequent guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, he has also collaborated with the Tokyo, Juilliard, Orion, Brentano, Mendelssohn, Sibelius, and Fine Arts string quartets. His extensive list of recordings spans an unusually broad range from original instrument performance to standard solo and chamber music repertoire to contemporary solo and chamber music works as well as numerous recordings of contemporary music as conductor. Recent recordings include the Horn Concerto of Peter Lieberson on Bridge (which received a Grammy and a WQXR Gramophone Award), works of Schumann, Paul Lansky, and the soon-to-be-released Quintet for Horn and Strings by Richard Wernick with the Juilliard Quartet. Since 1999, Mr. Purvis has been a faculty member at the Yale School of Music, where he is coordinator of winds and brass. He is also on the faculties of the Juilliard School and SUNY Stony Brook.

Markus Rathey Assistant Professor (Adjunct) of Music History. Professor Rathey studied musicology, Protestant theology, and German philology in Bethel and Münster and received his Ph.D. from the University of Münster in 1998. He taught at the University of Mainz and the University of Leipzig, and was a research fellow at the Bach-Archiv, Leipzig, before joining the Yale faculty in 2003. His primary research interests are music of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries, Johann Sebastian Bach, and the relationship among music, religion, and politics during the Enlightenment. Recent publications include the books Johann Rudolph Ahle (1625–1673): Lebensweg und Schaffen (Eisenach, 1999), an edition of Johann Georg Ahle’s Music Theoretical Writings (Hildesheim 2007), and Kommunikation und Diskurs: Die Bürgerkapitänsmusiken Carl Philipp Emanuel Bachs (Hildesheim 2007). He was guest editor of a volume of the German journal Musik und Kirche (2005) on church music in the United States. Professor Rathey is vice president of the Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship.

Michael Roylance Lecturer in Tuba. Michael Roylance has been principal tubist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 2003. He has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, and Seattle Symphony Orchestra. He also served as the principal tubist with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. As a freelance musician and teacher in Orlando, Fla., he performed on tuba and electric bass in a wide variety of ensembles such as orchestras, chamber groups, traditional jazz bands, big bands, and Broadway ensembles. He was a member of Walt Disney World’s “Future Corps” and principal tubist with the Walt Disney World Orchestra. His career also includes performances and master classes in Europe and Japan. He attended the University of Miami and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. He studied with Chester Schmitz, Connie Weldon, James Jenkins, Bob Tucci, Gene Pokorny, and Floyd Cooley. At Rollins College, he served on the faculty conducting the brass ensemble and directing the Pep Band. Mr. Roylance was also the professor of tuba and euphonium at the University of Central Florida. He joined the Yale faculty in 2008.

Willie Ruff Professor (Adjunct) of Music. Willie Ruff is a musician and scholar of wide-ranging interests and influence. A French horn and bass player, he is also an author, lecturer, and educator. After graduating from Yale, he joined Lionel Hampton’s band and soon collaborated with his friend, pianist Dwike Mitchell, to form the Mitchell-Ruff Duo. The duo performed on the bill with major jazz figures, including Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie, in every major nightclub. In 1959 they introduced jazz to the Soviet Union, playing and teaching in Russian conservatories, and in 1981 they did the same in China. On faculty at the Yale School of Music since 1971, Professor Ruff has also been on faculty at UCLA, Dartmouth, and Duke University. He is the founding director of the Duke Ellington Fellowship program at Yale, and his work in bringing jazz artists to Yale and New Haven public schools earned him the Governor’s Arts Award in 2000. In addition to teaching Yale courses in arranging, ethnomusicology, and folklore, Mr. Ruff has led many conferences and research projects exploring music’s wide-ranging impact. He has organized an international conference on the Neurophysiology of Rhythmic Perception and created computerized music based on the theories of seventeenth-century astronomer Johannes Kepler. Mr. Ruff’s latest project, congregational line singing, involved a 2005 conference at Yale comparing the traditions practiced in Alabama, Kentucky, and the Gaelic-speaking Free Church Presbyterians in the Scottish Highlands. This conference resulted in three television documentaries and a feature story for NPR’s “Morning Edition.” His line-singing project continued in 2007 with a conference that included the Muscogee Creek Nation in Oklahoma. Mr. Ruff’s memoir, A Call to Assembly, published in 1991 by Viking Press, received the Deems Taylor Award for excellence in a book on music.

Wendy Sharp Lecturer in Violin and Director of Chamber Music. Ms. Sharp performs frequently as a recitalist and a chamber musician. In demand as a teacher and chamber music coach, she is on the faculties of the Yale School of Music and California Summer Music. For nearly a decade, Ms. Sharp was the first violinist of the Franciscan String Quartet. As a member of the quartet, she toured the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan, and was honored with many awards including first prize in the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Press and City of Evian Prizes at the Evian International String Quartet Competition. A native of the San Francisco Bay area, she attended Yale University, graduating summa cum laude with Distinction in Music and received the Master of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Ms. Sharp has served on the faculties of Mannes College, Dartmouth College, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Choate Rosemary Hall, and has participated in the Aspen, Tanglewood, Chamber Music West, Norfolk, and Music Academy of the West festivals. She is currently a member of the Blue Elm Trio, a string trio based in the New Haven area. She has been a faculty member at the Yale School of Music since 1985.

David Shifrin Professor in the Practice of Clarinet and Chamber Music. Winner of the 2000 Avery Fisher Prize, clarinetist David Shifrin has appeared with the Philadelphia and Minnesota orchestras and the Dallas, Seattle, Houston, Milwaukee, Detroit, and Denver symphonies. He has appeared in recital at Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and the 92nd Street Y in New York City, and at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. In addition he has appeared in recital and as soloist with orchestra throughout Europe and Asia. A three-time Grammy nominee, he has been the artistic director of Chamber Music Northwest since 1980 and a faculty member at Yale since 1987. An artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1989, he served as its artistic director from 1992 to 2004.

Toshiyuki Shimada Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Conducting and Music Director of the Yale Symphony Orchestra. Profesor Shimada is also music director laureate of the Portland, Maine Symphony Orchestra, music director and chief creative officer of the Trinity Music Partners, LLC, artistic adviser of the Tulare County Symphony, and principal conductor of the Vienna Modern Masters, in Vienna, Austria. Prior to his post in Portland, he was associate conductor of the Houston Symphony Orchestra and he served as music director of the Nassau Symphony Orchestra and of the Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra at Rice University. Professor Shimada has been frequent guest conductor of the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, and recent engagements include Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak Philharmonic, Tonkünstler Orchestra in Austria, Orchestre National de Lille, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the Prague Chamber Orchestra. He has also been guest conductor with the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, the San Jose Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops Orchestra, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, and many other U.S. and Canadian orchestras. Maestro Shimada studied with distinguished conductors Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, Herbert Blomstedt, Hans Swarovsky, Sergiu Comissiona, David Whitwell, and Michael Tilson Thomas. He collaborated with such distinguished artists as Itzhak Perlman, Andre Watts, Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, Janos Starker, Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, Nadjia Salerno-Sonnenberg, Cho-Liang Lin, James Galway, and Doc Severinsen. He records with the Naxos, Vienna Modern Masters, Capstone, Albany, and Querstand labels. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Maine College of Art.

James Taylor Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Voice. The American lyric tenor James Taylor joined the Yale faculty in 2005 after serving as professor of voice at the Musikhochschule in Augsburg, Germany, since 2001. He is one of the most sought-after oratorio singers of his generation, appearing worldwide with such renowned conductors as Christoph Eschenbach, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Christoph von Dohnányi, Herbert Blomstedt, Daniel Harding, Bernard Labadie, Harry Christophers, Osmo Vänskä, Phillipe Herreweghe, René Jacob, Ivan Fisher, Ton Koopman, Michel Corboz, and Franz Welser-Möst, and touring extensively with Helmuth Rilling. Important guest appearances have included concerts with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Concentus Musicus of Vienna, the Toronto Symphony, Tafelmusik, the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Houston Symphony, the Israel Philharmonic, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and the San Francisco Symphony. His more than thirty-five professional recordings on CD include Dvorák’s Stabat Mater, Mendelssohn’s Paulus and Elijah, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Händel’s Messiah, Bach’s B Minor Mass and Christmas Oratorio, and the songs of John Duke. A recording of Scottish and Welsh songs by Franz Josef Haydn, with Donald Sulzen and the Munich Piano Trio, has recently been released. Professor Taylor is one of the founders of Liedertafel, a male vocal quartet, which has appeared in major European music festivals and recorded for the Orfeo label. Recent engagements include performances of Mozart’s Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots with Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Salzburg, four performances of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Kurt Masur, and a tour as soloist in the Britten Horn Serenade with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in April 2008. Mr. Taylor earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Texas Christian University and a Master’s Diploma from the Hochschule für Musik in Munich. From 1992 to 1994 he continued his studies of opera performance in the Munich Opera Studio.

Stephen Taylor Lecturer in Oboe. Stephen Taylor holds the Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III Solo Oboe Chair with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He is also solo oboe with the New York Woodwind Quintet, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble (where he is co-director of chamber music), the American Composers Orchestra, the New England Bach Festival Orchestra, and the renowned contemporary music group Speculum Musicae. He plays as co-principal oboe with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. He appears regularly as soloist and chamber musician at such major festivals as Spoleto, Caramoor International Music Festival, Aldeburgh, Bravo! Colorado, Music from Angel Fire, Chamber Music Northwest, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, and Schleswig-Holstein. Stereo Review named his recording of Mozart’s Sinfonie Concertante for winds (Deutsche Grammophon with Orpheus) the “Best New Classical Recording.” Included among his more than 200 other recordings are Bach arias with Itzhak Perlman and Kathleen Battle, Bach’s oboe d’amore concerto, as well as premier recordings of the Wolpe Oboe Quartet, Elliott Carter’s Oboe Quartet (for which Mr. Taylor received a Grammy nomination), and works of Andre Previn. He has premiered many of Carter’s works including A Mirror on Which to Dwell, Syringa, Tempo e Tempi, Trilogy for Oboe and Harp, Oboe Quartet, and A6 Letter Letter. Trained at the Juilliard School with teachers Lois Wann and Robert Bloom, Mr. Taylor is also a member of its faculty, as well as those at SUNY Stony Brook, SUNY Purchase, and the Manhattan School of Music. He collects and restores old wooden boats and plays on a rare Caldwell model Laree oboe. Mr. Taylor joined the Yale faculty in 2006.

Christopher Theofanidis Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Composition. Composer Christopher Theofanidis has had performances by many leading orchestras from around the world, including the National Symphony, the London Symphony, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Moscow Soloists, the Atlanta and Houston Symphonies, the California Symphony (for which he was composer-in-residence from 1994 to 1996), the Oregon Symphony, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra. He served as Composer of the Year for the Pittsburgh Symphony for their 2005–2006 season. He holds degrees from Yale, the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Houston, and has been the recipient of the Masterprize, the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Barlow Prize, six ASCAP Gould Prizes, a Fulbright Fellowship to France, a Tanglewood Fellowship, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Charles Ives Fellowship. Professor Theofanidis’s recent projects include an opera for the Houston Grand Opera, a ballet for the American Ballet Theatre, and a work for the Atlanta Symphony and Chorus based on the poetry of Rumi. He has served as a delegate to the U.S.-Japan Foundation’s Leadership Program. He has been on the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the Juilliard School in New York City. He joined the Yale faculy in 2008.

Frank Tirro Professor of Music History. Professor Tirro served as dean of the Yale School of Music from 1970 to 1980, having previously served as chairman of the department of music at Duke University. An accomplished clarinetist and saxophonist, he has performed chamber music with distinguished Yale colleagues Sidney Harth, Erick Friedman, Syoko Aki, Jesse Levine, Aldo Parisot, Elizabeth Parisot, and Joan Panetti, among others, and has played occasional concerts with jazz artists including Willie Ruff, Dwike Mitchell, Clark Terry, Donn Trenner, and Mary Lou Williams. Among his published compositions, the American Jazz Mass and American Jazz Te Deum are the most frequently performed. His Sonata for Clarinet and Piano was granted a National Federation of Music Clubs award, and his ballet, Masque of the Red Death, won the Ida M. Vreeland Prize in composition. Over the years, he has received several A.S.C.A.P. Standard Composer Awards. Professor Tirro is a specialist in both Renaissance music and the history of jazz and is the author of Jazz: A History (W. W. Norton), Renaissance Musical Sources in the Archive of San Petronio in Bologna (Haenssler-Verlag), and Living with Jazz (Harcourt Brace). He co-authored The Humanities: Cultural Roots and Continuities (Houghton Mifflin) and edited a volume of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Duke University Press). He served as associate editor for American National Biography, primarily responsible for jazz, ragtime, and related areas. His most recent book, The Birth of the Cool of Miles Davis and His Associates (2008), is published by the College Music Society and Pendragon Press. Frank Tirro has been a Fellow of Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska, a master’s degree from Northwestern University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

The Tokyo String Quartet The quartet consists of Martin Beaver and Kikuei Ikeda, violin; Kazuhide Isomura, viola; Clive Greensmith, cello. Officially formed in 1969 at the Juilliard School of Music, the Tokyo String Quartet traces its origins to the Toho School of Music in Tokyo, where the founding members were profoundly influenced by Professor Hideo Saito. Soon after its creation, the quartet won first prizes at the Coleman Competition, the Munich Competition, and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon. The quartet first performed and coached at the Yale Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk, Connecticut, in 1976. The following fall they joined the Yale School of Music faculty as quartet in residence. They have released more than thirty landmark recordings, including the complete quartets of Beethoven, Schubert, and Bartók. The ensemble’s recordings of works by Brahms, Debussy, Dvorák, Haydn, Mozart, Ravel, and Schubert have earned numerous honors, including seven Grammy nominations. The Tokyo has also been featured on PBS’s Sesame Street and Great Performers and on CNN’s This Morning. In Yale’s chamber music program the members of the quartet work intensively as coaches with all the student string ensembles.

Robert van Sice Lecturer in Percussion. Mr. van Sice has premiered more than one hundred works, including concertos, chamber music, and solos. He has made solo appearances with symphony orchestras and given recitals in Europe, North America, Africa, and the Far East. In 1989 he gave the first full-length marimba recitals at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and has since played in most of Europe’s major concert halls, with many broadcasts by the BBC, Swedish Radio, Norwegian Radio, WDR, and Radio France. He is frequently invited as a soloist with Europe’s leading contemporary music ensembles and festivals, including the London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Contrechamps, and L’Itinéraire and the Archipel, Darmstadt, and North American new music festivals. From 1988 to 1997 he headed Europe’s first diploma program for solo marimbists at the Rotterdam Conservatorium. Mr. van Sice has given master classes in more than twenty countries and frequently visits the major conservatories in Europe as a guest lecturer. He joined the Yale faculty in the fall of 1997.

Jack Vees Lecturer in Electronic Music and Director, Center for Studies in Music Technology. A composer and electric bassist, he received his M.F.A. in composition from the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied with Louis Andriessen, Vinko Globokar, and Morton Subotnik. He is active in the international arena as both a performer and a composer, having works played at sites from CBGB’s of the downtown New York scene to such festivals as the Berlin Biennale and New Music America. Many contemporary music groups like Ensemble Modern, Zeitgeist, and the California Ear Unit have commissioned pieces from him. A collection of his works entitled Surf Music Again is available on the CRI/ Emergency Music label. His opera Feynman, for solo voice and percussion, was premiered in June 2005 at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and later performed at the Knitting Factory in New York City. He is also the author of The Book on Bass Harmonics, which has become a standard reference for bassists since its publication in 1979. Mr. Vees joined Yale in 1988.

Benjamin Verdery Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Guitar. Professor Verdery has performed and taught master classes throughout Europe, Mexico, Canada, Cuba, Japan, and South America, and has recorded and performed with such diverse artists as Frederic Hand, Leo Kottke, Anthony Newman, Jessye Norman, Paco Peña, Hermann Prey, and John Williams. He regularly gives flute and guitar concerts with the Schmidt/Verdery Duo and with his ensemble Ufonia. Workshop Arts has published the solo works from Mr. Verdery’s recording Some Towns and Cities, which won the 1992 Best Classical Guitar Recording in Guitar Player magazine. In 1996, John Williams recorded Mr. Verdery’s duo version of Capitola, CA for Sony Classical. His Scenes from Ellis Island, for guitar orchestra, has been extensively broadcast and performed at festivals and universities in America, Canada, New Zealand, and Europe, and the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet performs it on their CD Air and Ground (Sony Classical). Workshop Arts (distributed by Alfred Music) has released Mr. Verdery’s book Easy Classical Guitar Recital as well as his instructional video, Essentials of Classical Guitar. His recordings include Bach: Transcriptions for Guitar (GRI), Reverie: French Music for Flute and Guitar (Sony Classical), Some Towns and Cities (Sony Classical), Ride the Wind Horse: American Guitar Music (Sony Classical), The Enchanted Dawn (GRI), Ben Verdery Ufonia, and Soepa: American Guitar Music (Mushkatweek). He joined John Williams on the Sony Classical CD John Williams Plays Vivaldi for a recording of the Concerto in G Major for two mandolins. Benjamin Verdery is artistic director of the Yale Guitar Extravaganza and Art of the Guitar at the 92nd St “Y” in New York. He is honorary board member of the Suzuki Association of the Americas, Inc., and held his tenth annual international master class on the Island of Maui, Hawaii, in July 2008. Benjamin Verdery joined the faculty of the Yale School of Music in 1985.

Marc Verzatt Lecturer in Voice and Opera. A stage director, Mr. Verzatt maintains an active career directing opera, operetta, and musical theater throughout the United States, South America, and Europe. He began his theatrical career as a dancer with the Metropolitan Opera after studying drama at Rutgers University and ballet with New Jersey’s Garden State Ballet. After several seasons as a soloist with the MET Ballet, he left to continue his education in production as a stage manager with the Cincinnati Opera and Pittsburgh Opera companies. He made his professional directing debut with a production of Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann with Opera Columbus. He has since directed productions with the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Chicago Lyric Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Florida Grand Opera, and the opera companies of Fort Worth, Lake George, Madison, Arizona, Toledo, Atlanta, Kansas City, Baltimore, Idaho, and Mississippi. In Austin, he directed both Puccini’s La Bohème and Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. Mr. Verzatt has taught and directed at Philadelphia’s Academy of Vocal Arts and Notre Dame University. He has directed several Yale Opera productions, including Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (in which he appeared in the role of Puck) for Orchestra Verdi in Milan, as well as five one-act operas in Sprague Hall, and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica at the Shubert Theater. In 2005 he was engaged by the Metropolitan Opera for a speaking role in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos. In 2006 he was named Outstanding Stage Director of the Year by Classical Singer magazine. He joined the Yale faculty in 2002.

Ransom Wilson Professor (Adjunct) of Flute. Ransom Wilson was educated at the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Juilliard School, and continued his postgraduate studies as an Atlantique Scholar in France with Jean-Pierre Rampal. As flute soloist he has appeared with the Israel Philharmonic, the English Chamber Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, I Solisti Veneti, the Prague Chamber Orchestra, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the chamber orchestras of Nice, Stuttgart, Cologne, and the Netherlands. He is an artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. As a conductor, Mr. Wilson is the music director and principal conductor of Solisti New York, which he founded in 1981. He is music director of Opera Omaha and the San Francisco Chamber Symphony, as well as artistic director of the OK Mozart Festival in Oklahoma. He was honored by the Austrian government with the Award of Merit in Gold in recognition of his efforts on behalf of Mozart’s music in America, and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Alabama. A strong supporter of contemporary music, Mr. Wilson has had works composed for him by Steve Reich, Aaron Jay Kernis, Ezra Laderman, Randall Woolf, Peter Schickele, Joseph Schwantner, John Harbison, Jean Francaix, Jean-Michel Damase, George Tsontakis, Tania Léon, and Deborah Drattel. In 2007 he was appointed director of the symphony orchestra and artist/teacher of conducting at the North Carolina School of the Arts. He joined the Yale faculty in 1991.

Wei-Yi Yang Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Piano. Professor Yang has performed on four continents in solo recitals, appearances with orchestras, and chamber music performances. Winner of the gold medal in the Fifth San Antonio International Piano Competition, Mr. Yang’s performances have been featured on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in Sydney Australia, NPR, Minnesota Public Radio, WCNY-New York, WFMT-Illinois, and KLRN public television in Texas. He has also garnered top prizes and awards in the Manhattan Concerto Competition, New York’s FiveTown Arts Foundation Competition, the San Jose International Piano Competition, and the Long Island Young Artist Competition. Born in Taiwan of Chinese and Japanese heritage, Mr. Yang was first educated in the United Kingdom before arriving at the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Russian pianist Arkady Aronov. He has performed in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Steinway Hall, and Merkin Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Powell Symphony Hall in St. Louis, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music in Glasgow, the Great Hall in Leeds, England, Kumho Art Hall in Seoul, Korea, and the Royal Dublin Society in Ireland, among other international concert stages. Professor Yang has collaborated with members of the London Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Singapore Symphony, San Francisco Opera, Minnesota Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, Orquestra do Estado de São Paulo, and the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society II. A founding member of the award-winning Soyulla Ensemble, He performs regularly with the ensemble on chamber music series and in festivals across the United States and Asia. He joined the faculty at Yale University in 2005.

Doris Yarick-Cross Professor in the Practice of Voice. Chair of the voice and opera department, Doris Yarick-Cross has appeared with most of the major opera companies in the United States, including the San Francisco, Chicago Lyric, and New York City operas, as well as companies in Europe, Australia, and Canada. She spent sixteen years in Germany, where she sang leading roles in major opera houses. She has sung with the symphony orchestras of Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Quebec, Toronto, and San Francisco, and with the New York Philharmonic. She is well known as a recitalist and has appeared in hundreds of concerts across the country. Before coming to Yale in 1983, she served on the faculty of the University of Texas and was head of the voice department at the University of Connecticut.

Kyung Hak Yu Lecturer in Violin. Ms. Yu holds both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School and a Master of Music from the Yale School of Music. She has studied with Dorothy DeLay, Paul Kantor, and the late Professor Emanuel Zetlin. Ms. Yu was concertmaster of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra from 1988 until 1999 and has appeared as a soloist with the Seattle Symphony, the New Haven Symphony, and Yale Philharmonia, and has performed numerous recitals in New York City, Seattle, Aspen, and throughout Korea. She gave her New York debut concert in Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall as a winner of the Artists International Competition. Ms. Yu has taught at the Aspen Music Festival and was an assistant to Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard pre-college division. She served on the Fulbright Scholarship Screening Committee for Strings from 1999 to 2002. Ms. Yu has taught violin at Lehigh University and Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and has served on the faculty at Yale since 1988. Ms. Yu performs extensively with pianist Elizabeth Sawyer Parisot, with whom she recorded the Strauss and Prokofiev sonatas and performed on the CD The Music of Ezra Laderman for Albany Records. She performed the Beethoven Triple Concerto with Elizabeth Parisot and Ole Akahoshi, cello, with the Yale Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Shinik Hahm. With Elizabeth Parisot, Ms. Yu has played numerous recitals throughout Connecticut and Pennsylvania, and has performed to acclaim in concert tours of Korea and Italy.

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