On Oct. 21, pianist and musicologist Dr. Samantha Ege will join Principal Conductor Peter Oundjian and the Yale Philharmonia for the world orchestral premiere of Helen Hagan’s Piano Concerto in C minor, featuring a new orchestration by composer and distinguished YSM alum Soomin Kim ’21MM ’22MMA. We spoke with Ege and Kim about Hagan, who, in 1912, became the first Black woman to graduate from the Yale School of Music, and about the Concerto in C minor.
Bryce Dessner ’98BA ’99MM, whose work with his band The National and collaborations with such artists and ensembles as Philip Glass, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Steve Reich, Paul Simon, Taylor Swift, ensemble intercontemporain, the Kronos Quartet, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and others has established the guitarist and composer as a curious and adventuresome creator, is returning to New Haven for a multiyear residency at the Yale Schwarzman Center.
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The Pulitzer-winning, MacArthur "genius" co-founder of Bang on a Can looks for the grit in music, whether she's writing a string quartet or one of her history-based oratorios.