The Yale Noyse
Robert Mealy, director

Friday, February 23, 2007

Sudler Hall -- 100 Wall Street

Faculty member Robert Mealy will lead the newly established ensemble The Yale Noyse in "Melancholy and Delight," a concert of 17th-century English chamber music for strings.  The program will feature works of virtuosity and and passion, including dances, airs and consorts by Dowland, Lawes, Holborne, and others.

One of America’s leading baroque violinists, Robert Mealy has been praised for his “imagination, taste, subtlety, and daring” by the Boston Globe; the New Yorker recently called him “New York’s world-class early music violinist.” He has recorded over 50 cds of early music on all major labels, ranging from Hildegard of Bingen with Sequentia, to Renaissance consorts with the Boston Camerata, to Rameau operas with Les Arts Florissants. At home in New York, he is a frequent leader and soloist with the New York Collegium, Early Music New York, and the ARTEK early music ensemble.  In 2004 Robert was appointed concertmaster of the internationally-acclaimed Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra.

A noted scholar as well as a performer, Robert has lectured and taught historical performance techniques at Columbia, Brown, Rutgers, Oberlin, and U.C. Berkeley. He was recently appointed Lecturer in the Department of Music at Yale, and is Instrumental Director of the Yale Collegium.  He also directs the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra. For his work with both institutions, he recently received Early Music America's Binkley Award for outstanding teaching and scholarship.