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5 unusual facts about Yale School of Music


Garth Neustadter

He completed undergraduate degrees in violin and voice performance at Lawrence University and went on to study composition at the Yale School of Music.

Hannah Lash

Hannah Lash (born 1981) is an American composer of concert music who serves on the faculty of the Yale School of Music.

Preston Trombly

He received a Master of Musical Arts degree from the Yale School of Music in 1972.

Thomas Nyfenger

In 1967, Nyfenger joined the flute faculty of the Yale School of Music and also served as the chairman of the wind department.

He taught at the Yale School of Music, played piccolo for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and held many part-time playing and teaching positions throughout his career.


Nazarena of Jesus

She studied at the Hartford Conservatory, then piano, violin (with Hugo Kortschak) and composition (with David Stanley Smith and Richard Donovan) at the Yale School of Music.


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Kathryn Salfelder

She earned an M.M. in Composition from the Yale School of Music, where she studied under Aaron Jay Kernis and David Lang.