FACULT Y NEWS
Astrid Baumgardner, director of YSM’s Office of Career Strategies, gave a talk about collaborative creativity at the virtual TEDx Hartford in December. Her talk grew out of her YSM class Creativity, Collaboration, and Entrepreneurship and her recently published book, Creative Success Now: How Creatives Can Thrive in the 21st Century (Indie Books International).
Yale Symphony Orchestra Director William Boughton is doing research for a book about the life and music of Nicholas Maw, who was a visiting professor of composition at YSM in 1984 and 1989. In October, Boughton launched the Yale Symphony Orchestra Endowment Campaign, an effort that seeks to raise $5 million over four years to support touring, free concerts, instruments, recording, and commissions.
Following the release from the French label Palais des Connoisseurs of a double CD of preludes by Debussy and other works—a recording that received the Choc mark from Le Monde de la Musique, Chandos released faculty pianist Boris Berman’s album of piano pieces by Brahms. Berman contributed a chapter about Prokofiev’s piano concertos to Rethinking Prokofiev, which was published by Oxford University Press. Berman also appears, with faculty violist Ettore Causa and Clive Greensmith, on a Palais des Connoisseurs recording of music for viola by Brahms.
In December 2019, the Brentano String Quartet gave the West Coast premiere of faculty composer Martin Bresnick’s String Quartet No. 4, “The Planet on the Table,” at the Samueli Theater at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, Calif. Bresnick was featured in October on Michael Shapiro’s podcast Interplay: Conversations in Music, on which he discussed his musical influences and teaching philosophy.
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