Other Music Faculty at Yale
Marguerite Brooks
Specialization: choral conducting.
Bio: Marguerite Brooks, choral conductor, holds degrees from Mount Holyoke College and Temple University. She has served on the faculties of Smith and Amherst College and was also director of choral music at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The conductor of the Yale Camerata, 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.
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Simon Carrington
Specialization: choral conducting.
Bio: Simon Carrington, choral conductor, is the music director of the Yale Schola Cantorum. Professor Carrington joined the Yale faculty in 2003 from New England Conservatory, where he directed the choral activities from 2001 to 2003. Previously he served for seven years as Director of Choral Activities at the University of Kansas. While at Cambridge University, he co-founded the King's Singers and spent twenty-five years with this internationally acclaimed British vocal ensemble. He gave 3,000 performances at many of the world's most prestigious festivals and concert halls, made over seventy recordings, and appeared on countless television and radio programs (including nine appearances with the late Johnny Carson). Professor Carrington maintains an active schedule as a freelance conductor and choral clinician, leading workshops and masterclasses all over the world. Most recently he has conducted youth choirs in the Monteverdi Vespers in Barcelona; the Fauré Requiem in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, and Dornoch Cathedral in Scotland; and the Texas All State Choir; in 2005-06 he conducts at the Monteverdi Choir Festival in Budapest, leads workshops at the Choral Festival in Sarteano (Italy), gives the keynote address at the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors conference, and conducts at the 11th Tokyo Cantat in Japan. Simon Carrington earned the M.A. degree from University of Cambridge.
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Jeffrey Douma
Specialization: choral conducting.
Bio: Jeffrey Douma, choral conductor, is director of the Yale Glee Club, currently celebrating its 145th year. Before coming to Yale in 2003, he served on the conducting faculties of Carroll College, Smith College, and St. Cloud State University. Choirs under his direction have appeared in Leipzig's Neue Gewandhaus, Prague's Dvorak Hall, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Sydney Town Hall, Christchurch Cathedral, Avery Fisher Hall, and Carnegie Hall, and he has prepared choruses for such conductors as Sir David Willcocks, Anton Nanut, Constantine Orbelian, Shinik Hahm, and Krzysztof Penderecki. He recently established the new Yale Glee Club Emerging Composers Competition and has premiered new works with the Glee Club by such composers as Lee Hoiby and Dominick Argento. He is active as a guest conductor and clinician with musicians at all levels and serves on the conducting faculty at the Interlochen National Arts Camp. He has performed with many of the nation's leading professional choirs, including the Dale Warland Singers, Bella Voce, the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, and the Robert Shaw Festival Singers. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn., and both Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Choral Conducting from the University of Michigan, where he held several conducting assignments.
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Thomas C. Duffy
Specialization: instrumental conducting.
Bio: Thomas C. Duffy, composer and conductor, is Director of Bands at Yale University He has served as a member of the Fulbright National Selection Committee, a member of the Tanglewood II Symposium planning committee, and was member of Harvard University's Institute for Management and Leadership in Education (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, chair of the Connecticut Music Educators Association’s Professional Affairs and Government Relations committees, and has represented music education in Yale’s Teacher Preparation Program. 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. Deputy Dean of the School of Music from 1999 to 2005, he served as Acting Dean in the 2005-06 academic year. He joined the Yale faculty in 1982.
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Daniel Egan
Specialization: musical theatre.
Bio: Daniel Egan has an active career in both teaching and performance. He has performed in opera, theater, concert and recording venues in all genres of music while maintaining ties to the classroom through guest lectures at Yale, Penn State, Lawrence University, U.C. Irvine and the Brearley School in New York. At Yale, he created the first seminar on the work of Stephen Sondheim and worked as music coordinator for the Yale Repertory Theater under Lloyd Richards. He is currently Academic Coordinator for Explore New York, an Elderhostel provider under the aegis of Hunter College, where he is also a frequent lecturer on opera, music and theater. As a performer, Egan has appeared as a soloist and/or ensemble singer with the New York Philharmonic, New York City Ballet, Manhattan Theater Club , Mark Morris Dance Group, Musica Sacra, New York Virtuoso Singers and The Lambs Theater, among many others, in addition to several full seasons as a tenor in the resident ensemble at New York City Opera. He has performed at numerous festivals including NAMT New Musicals, Mostly Mozart, Tanglewood and the Bard Festival. Egan participated in Grammy nominated recordings of Sweeney Todd and Ruins of Athens with the New York Philharmonic and Patti Page's 50th Anniversary Concert at Carnegie Hall as well as NYCO's Emmy nominated Live From Lincoln Center performances of La boheme and Madama Butterfly. Most recently he has worked to resuscitate lesser known works in the Rodgers & Hammerstein canon, performing on and assisting in research and casting of a new recording of Allegro. Egan's academic training is in music theory. B.M., summa cum laude, St. Olaf College, M.A. Eastman School of Music, MPhil., Yale University.
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Shinik Hahm
Specialization: instrumental conducting.
Bio: Shinik Hahm has conducted major orchestras and opera companies in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. He served as music director of the Yale Symphony Orchestra from 1995 to 2004, when he was appointed Music Director of the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale, the orchestra of the Yale School of Music. Since 1988, he has been music director of various orchestras including the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, Abilene Philharmonic, and currently is the music director/conductor of the Daejeon Philharmonic and the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestras. An active opera conductor, he has performed numerous times with the Silesian State Opera in Poland. Since 1992, he has made annual appearances with the Korean Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, and led that orchestra in its 1995 tour of the United States in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Korean independence. This June, he brought the Daejeon Philharmonic to Carnegie Hall, the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, and other major American cities. He has conducted the orchestras of Los Angeles, Warsaw, Fort Worth, Atlanta, Boulder, Bangkok, Louisville, Toronto, Omaha, Hartford, Prague, Bilbao, St. Petersburg, Russia, and many others. Among numerous distinctions, he has won the Gregorz Fitelberg International Conducting Competition as well as the Korean Cultural Medal, Korea’s highest civilian honor. He has earned degrees at Rice University and at the Eastman School of Music.
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Craig Harwood
Specialization: music theory.
Bio: Craig Harwood was appointed Dean of Davenport College in June 2005. He earned the Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Queens College, where he played tuba in the College Orchestra. He received his Ph.D. in Music Theory from Yale University; his dissertation explored issues of musical grammar in the work of Mozart.
After graduating from Yale, Dean Harwood was appointed an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow at Amherst College. At Amherst and Yale, Dean Harwood has taught classes in music theory, Klezmer Music and Mozart. He plays both guitar and mandolin, and performs in Generation Klez, a professional klezmer ensemble with a group of Alumni from the Yale School of Music. During his graduate school days at Yale he played with the Professors of Bluegrass.
Dean Harwood has been tireless in his devotion to both the world of music and the music of the world; while at Amherst, he helped develop the Global Sound Project, and served on the Five College Ethnomusicology Committee, which organizes festivals and symposia on world music. As a performer, as a teacher, and as mentor to undergraduate musicians, Mr. Harwood has used music of all types as his medium for connecting with students.
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Annette Jolles
Specialization: musical theatre performance.
Bio: Annette Jolles has created a diverse body of work as a director, writer and producer for stage and television. She directed and choreographed Laurence Holzman and Felicia Needleman’s That Time of the Year at the York Theatre Company, where she also directed Little By Little and the York’s 2007 NEO benefit. She directed “Johnny Mercer at the Movies” for the 92nd Street Y’s Lyrics and Lyricists series and five seasons of New Voices Concerts at Symphony Space where she also staged “Broadway and Beyond” with host Rob Fisher and their monumental Wall to Wall Sondheim tribute. For The Little Orchestra Society, Ms. Jolles has directed and choreographed fifteen seasons of Lolli-Pops Concerts and productions including Amahl and the Night Visitors, Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, and Peter and the Wolf at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center. In addition, she directed and produced their multi-award winning DVD The Orchestra – A Happy Family. Her work in television earned her an Emmy Award as producer of the 9/11 Memorial from Ground Zero and six additional Emmy nominations. Highlights of broadcasts include Broadway Under the Stars (CBS), Egypt Week Live (Discovery), The Dr. Joy Browne Show (Discovery Health), Romance/ Romance, Nunsense 1, 2 & 3, Stop the World… (PBS, A&E, TNN), Trading Spaces “Home Free” Finale (TLC), and the Times Square New Year’s Eve festivities from 1997-2004. In the emerging field of live webcasts, Ms. Jolles co-produced several AOL broadband concerts featuring artists such as Usher, Avril Lavigne, and Alicia Keys. Most recently, she directed the live MSN Al Gore interview that launched Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale University and recipient of a Drama League Directors fellowship. She is also a proud mother of two.
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Judith Malafronte
Specialization: early music performance.
Bio: Judith Malafronte has an active career as a mezzo-soprano 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 US, including the Grand Prize at the International Vocal Competition in Hertogenbosch, Holland, 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. B.A., Vassar; M.A., Stanford.
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Ilya Poletaev
Specialization: early music performance.
Bio: Ilya Poletaev leads a multi-faceted career as a classically trained pianist as well as a performer on early keyboards. As a solo pianist, he has appeared with the Toronto and Hartford symphony orchestras; as a chamber musician, he has performed alongside such distinguished artists as Donald Weilerstein, Gary Hoffmann, and Boris Berman, and Susan Narucki. He has also recently appeared at several prestigious festivals, including Moab, Caramoor, Sarasota, Norfolk, Yellow Barn, Banff Festival of the Arts, the Orford Arts Center, and Stratford Summer Music Festival. As a harpsichordist, he has been the recent winner of the Southeastern Historical Society International harpsichord competition, and has been heard in such venues as Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall, the Pierpont Morgan library in New York City, the Amherst Early music festival, and the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments. As a continuo player, he has played under such conductors as Andrew Lawrence-King, Steven Stubbs, Simon Carrington, Graham O-Reilly, and Helmuth Rilling. He has also been the recipient of Early Music America scholarship.
Mr. Poletaev began his studies in Moscow at the age of 6, and continued in Israel,
where at age 13 he performed a piano concerto of his own composition. Since age 14 he resided in Canada. He holds a BM from University of Toronto, where his teachers included Marietta Orlov and Colin Tilney, and an MM and MMA from Yale, where he studied with Boris Berman. Currently, he is a candidate for the Yale DMA. Betweeen 2005 and 2007, Poletaev served on the faculty of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music as a Lecturer in Applied music.
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