School of music

School Notes: School of Music
May/June 2017

José García-Léon | http://music.yale.edu

Alumni take home Grammys

Yale School of Music alumnus Michael Daugherty ’87MusAD received three 2017 Grammy Awards in February for his Tales of Hemingway for cello and orchestra. The piece won in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo, Best Contemporary Classical Composition, and Best Classical Compendium categories. David Skidmore ’08MusM earned a Grammy as a member of Third Coast Percussion in the Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance category for a recording of works by Steve Reich. Also nominated: YSM faculty composer Christopher Theofanidis ’97MusAD for his Bassoon Concerto (best contemporary classical composition), composer Thomas Lloyd ’79MusM for Bonhoeffer (best choral performance), and clarinetist Joaquin Valdepeñas ’80MusM as a member of the ARC (Artists of the Royal Conservatory, in Toronto) Ensemble (best chamber music/small ensemble performance). 

Professor heads to Vienna as Fulbright Visiting Scholar

Professor of Musicology Paul Hawkshaw will be a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in Vienna, Austria, during 2017–2018. He’ll teach at the University of Vienna’s Institute for Musicology and at the city’s University of Music and the Performing Arts. Hawkshaw is working on a project titled A Bequest and a Complex Legacy: Untangling Anton Bruckner’s Revisions in Later Times and will be doing research at the Austrian National Library.

“Bruckner is notorious for revising his music over and over again, as well as for tolerating editorial interference from well-meaning friends and students,” Hawkshaw said. “As a result, a confusing mess of contradictory editions of his major works has accumulated over the past century. The International Bruckner Society has recently begun a new Collected Works Edition under the auspices of the Austrian National Library and the Vienna Philharmonic to produce definitive scores. The new score of the first version of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony will receive its first performance with the Yale Philharmonia conducted by Peter Oundjian next fall.”

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