Yale School of Music
Yale School of Music (often abbreviated to YSM[2]) is one of the 12 professional schools at Yale University. It offers three graduate degrees: Master of Music (MM), Master of Musical Arts (MMA), and Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA), as well as a joint Bachelor of Arts—Master of Music program in conjunction with Yale College, a Certificate in Performance, and an artist diploma.[3]
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Yale is the only Ivy League school with a separate school of music; the university also has a separate Department of Music in the Division of Humanities of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The School of Music originated in 1855 with a gift of $5,000 from Joseph Battell and conferred its first degrees in 1894; it has a separate endowment, and as a result of a 2005 gift waives tuition and gives students maintenance grants.[1][4]
José García-León, formerly dean of academic affairs and assessment at Juilliard, succeeded Robert Blocker as dean of the Yale School of Music in fall 2023.[5][6]
Albert Arnold Sprague Memorial Hall (1917), renovated in 2003.
Abby and Mitch Leigh Hall (1930), Gothic style, renovated in 2006.
Hendrie Hall (1895), renovated in 2017.
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Adams Center for Musical Arts (2017). The Adams Center complex includes Hendrie Hall, Leigh Hall, and new space which connects the two.
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(1901), used for orchestral performances (Yale Philharmonia) and organ recitals (on the Newberry Memorial Organ).
Woolsey Hall
The (1895), Romanesque style.
Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments
Orchestra conductor
Gisele Ben-Dor
Cellist, bassist, keyboarder and arranger
Matt Brubeck
College President
Ronald Crutcher
Lifetime Achievement Award winner flutist
Robert Dick
Conductor
Dominick DiOrio
Pianist
Juan Carlos Fernández-Nieto
Grammy Award-winning organist
Paul Jacobs
Musicologist and biographer
Henry-Louis de La Grange
Television producer
Perry Lafferty
Clarinetist
Fan Lei
Composer
Danny Elfman
Pianist known as the Video Game Pianist
Martin Leung
Trombonist
Achilles Liarmakopoulos
Conductor and pianist
Jahja Ling
Musician and socialite
Ruth Muzzy Conniston Morize
Cellist and professor
Aldo Parisot
Cellist and musician
Johann Sebastian Paetsch
College President
Joseph W. Polisi
College President
Ravi S. Rajan
Founder and musical conductor of the New England Orchestra
Kay George Roberts
Conductor, arranger and music journalist
Joshua Rosenblum
Jazz musician
Willie Ruff
Violinist
Moni Simeonov
Conductor and arranger
Stephen Simon
Cellist
Jian Wang
Professor of Composition (past)
John Adams
Professor of Harp (past)
Nancy Allen
Visiting Professor of Piano (past)
Emanuel Ax
Artist in Residence (past)
Martin Beaver
Professor of Piano
Boris Berman
Professor of Composition
Martin Bresnick
Professor of Choral Conducting
Simon Carrington
Visiting Associate Professor of Trumpet
Kevin Cobb
Professor of Voice (past)
Richard Cross (bass-baritone)
Professor of Trumpet (past)
Allan Dean
Professor of Composition (past)
Jacob Druckman
Visiting Professor of Composition (past)
Lukas Foss
Professor of Piano
Claude Frank
Professor of Piano
Peter Frankl
Professor of Violin (past)
Erick Friedman
Professor of Violin (past)
Sidney Harth
Professor of Music (1940–53)
Paul Hindemith
Professor of Organ
Martin Jean
Visiting Professor of Composition (past)
Betsy Jolas
Professor of Violin
Ani Kavafian
Professor of Composition
Aaron Jay Kernis
Visiting Professor of Composition (1985)
Leon Kirchner
Professor of Composition (past)
Ezra Laderman
Professor of Composition
David Lang
Visiting Professor of Composition (past)
Ingram Marshall
Professor of Music Theory (1959–69)
Donald Martino
Professor of Violin
Robert Mealy
Professor of Organ
Thomas Murray
Professor of Double Bass
Donald Palma
Professor of Cello
Aldo Parisot
Professor of Composition (1973–79)
Krzysztof Penderecki
Professor of Composition (1957–69)
Mel Powell
Visiting Professor of Composition (1984)
Frederic Rzewski
Professor of Composition (past)
Joseph Schwantner
Visiting Professor of the Theory of Music (1949–50)
Charles Seeger
Professor of Clarinet
David Shifrin
Professor of Violin (past)
Oscar Shumsky
Professor of Percussion
Robert van Sice
Professor of Composition (past)
Morton Subotnick
Professor of Choral Conducting
Masaaki Suzuki
Visiting Professor of Composition (1975)
Toru Takemitsu
Professor of Voice - Institute for Sacred Music
James Taylor (tenor)
Professor of Composition
Christopher Theofanidis
Visiting Professor of Keyboard (past)
Rosalyn Tureck
Professor of Clarinet (1946–87)
Keith Wilson
Professor of Flute (past)
Ransom Wilson
Noss, Luther (1984). A History of the Yale School of Music, 1855–1970. Yale School of Music.