Upcoming Events

[NYC, NY] Ben Verdery & Friends: Some Towns and Cities
May
14

[NYC, NY] Ben Verdery & Friends: Some Towns and Cities

Yale Ensemble plays GIVE by Ben Verdery

with special guests including JIJI, guitar; Rie Schmidt, flute; Wayne Escoffery, saxophone; Yale Guitar Ensemble, and more.

In a very special Art of the Guitar event, guitarist and longtime series artistic director Ben Verdery joins us for his NYC farewell concert.

92NY’s Art of the Guitar is now in its 27th year, with Verdery serving as artistic director for 13 seasons, beginning in 2007. As curator of the series, he championed young artists, expanded the guitar repertoire with new commissions, presented premieres by masters including Egberto Gismonti, Sérgio Assad, Tan Dun, and others, ran Guitar Marathons, hosted a series of Guitar Talks, and more. A collaborator above all, Verdery is joined by special guests including the brilliant guitarist (and former student of Verdery) JIJI, flutist Rie Schmidt, saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, the Yale Guitar Ensemble, and others – for an evening of music composed by him as part of his longtime Some Towns and Cities project, and a celebration of his extraordinary contributions to all things classical guitar.

 
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[Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 🇻🇳] Saigon International Guitar Festival
Aug
28
to Sep 1

[Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 🇻🇳] Saigon International Guitar Festival

  • Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music (map)
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Solo and Ensemble performance with Yale Guitar Ensemble.

http://saigonguitarfestival.weebly.com/

 
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[New Haven, CT] Yale Guitar Chamber Music
May
6
Upcoming Concerts

[New Haven, CT] Yale Guitar Chamber Music

  • Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall at Yale University (map)
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A performance by students from faculty guitarist Benjamin Verdery’s studio.

Ferdinand Rebay: Sonata in D minor for viola and guitar
Dušan Bogdanovic: Quatre pièces intimes (1997), for guitar and double bass
Karl Pilss: Sonatine in A major for oboe and guitar (1942)
David Lang: warmth (2006), for 2 electric guitars
Phillip Houghton: Two Night Movements for violin and guitar (1995)
Robert Beaser: Selections from Mountain Songs for flute and guitar (1985)
Benjamin Verdery: Give, for guitar ensemble

This performance is estimated to run 1 hour and 45 minutes, including one intermission.

Free admission, no registration required

Livestream: https://music.yale.edu/live

 
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[New Haven, CT] All Creation Sings: ISM’s 50th Anniversary Hymn Festival
May
5

[New Haven, CT] All Creation Sings: ISM’s 50th Anniversary Hymn Festival

“In celebration of its 50th anniversary year, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music is inviting singers in the greater New Haven area to participate in an ecumenical hymn festival in Woolsey Hall on May 5, 2024, at 4 p.m. The goal is to gather a community choir of 300 voices to lead an audience of over 1,000 around the theme “All Creation Sings,” celebrating the diversity of our creation and our duty as faithful people to care for it. Conducted by Dr. Felicia Barber, the choir will have as its core the Yale Camerata to be accompanied by brass ensemble, gospel instrumentalists, and organists Dr. Nathaniel Gumbs and Dr. Bruce Neswick. Drs. Barbara Brown Taylor and James Forbes will be our preachers for the occasion. If you enjoy and have experience singing in choirs, we invite you to participate.”

The music will include various genres of sacred music, ranging from traditional and contemporary hymns, spirituals, gospel, and more.

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[Maui, HI] Guitar Concert
Jul
11

[Maui, HI] Guitar Concert

Performed by the members of the 24th Ben Verdery Maui Masterclass.

 
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