School of music

School Notes: School of Music
January/February 2015

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

Fanfare, musical panel help open Yale Center Beijing

Yale University inaugurated the Yale Center Beijing with a major conference on October 27–28, 2014, which featured conversations on important societal issues in China, the United States, and the world. The School of Music convened a panel called The Musical Impulse: Unlocking Creativity for the Individual, the Culture, and the Economy, moderated by Dean Robert Blocker, and featuring panelists Madame Gao Jianjin, president of the Institute of Music Education at the Central Conservatory of Music (Beijing, China); Klaus Heymann, chairman of Naxos Records; and Wang Cizhao, president of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and a professor of musicology. The panel explored the values of music in educating young artists for the world ahead, and the importance of finding bridges of understanding. 

Yale School of Music alumna Fay (Feinan) Wang ’10MusM, ’12MusAD, wrote a celebratory piece for brass quintet, which was commissioned for the occasion and was performed by musicians from the Central Conservatory of Music at the opening ceremony. 

Four students selected for program in music criticism

The 2014 Rubin Institute for Music Criticism included four Yale students among the 17 young writers selected to participate. The fellows from the Yale School of Music were Jacob Ashworth ’13MusM, ’14MusAM, violin; Fiona Last ’15MusM, oboe; Daniel Schlosberg ’10, ’13MusM, ’14MusAM, composition; and Scarlett Tong Zuo ’16, piano. The Rubin Institute took place in San Francisco last November. Speakers and guest critics included Anthony Tommasini ’70, ’72MusM, Anne Midgette ’86, and Alex Ross, among others. The fellows attended concerts and talks, wrote reviews, and had their work critiqued by a writers panel. 

Yale acquires Petryn Collection

The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments has acquired the Andrew F. Petryn Collection of String Instruments and Bows, director William Purvis announced last fall. The collection of more than twenty objects was received in bequest following Mr. Petryn’s death in October 2013, and includes violins by Italian masters Nicolò Amati and Andrea Guarneri, and three bows by the preeminent French archetier François Tourte.

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