Current Concert Season

Wayne Escoffery, Music Director. Program TBA.

Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. Yale’s premier wind ensemble presents “Out of Darkness” (Dana Wilson), featuring guest artist Ole Akahoshi, Yale School of Music Professor of Cello; “Tone Parallel to Harlem” (Duke Ellington, trans. James Spinazzola), James Spinazzola, guest conductor; “Symphony No. 2 (David Maslanka).

The Yale Concert Band, Yale’s premier wind ensemble (Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director), and the Yale Jazz Ensembles Big Band (Wayne Escoffery, Music Director) present two settings of Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker Suite.” With both bands seated side by side on stage, the YCB performs the traditional classical arrangement by Mayhew F. Lake, with the YJE answering movements with Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn’s jazzy interpretation of this holiday classic (where “Dance of the Reed-Pipes” becomes “Toot Toot Tootie Toot” and “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” becomes “Sugar Rum Cherry,” and more!)

Thomas C. Duffy Music Director. Yale’s premier wind ensemble presents “Vespers” by Susan Botti, with special guests the Yale Glee Club, Jeffrey Douma, Music Director. Other music TBA.

Wayne Escoffery, Music Director. Program TBA.

The Yale Jazz Ensembles Big Band, Wayne Escoffery, Music Director, returns to Dizzy’s to present an evening of jazz. Two sets: 7 and 9 pm. $ Tickets required/purchase info TBA.

The Thomas C. Duffy Yale Concert Band Spring Concert, Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. Yale’s premier wind ensemble will present the premiere of “Juvenalia” for Solo Percussion and Wind Ensemble by Robert Honstein, featuring Garrett Arney. Honstein is a graduate of Yale College and the Yale School of Music, and Arney is a graduate of the Yale School of Music, where he studied percussion under Robert van Sice. Other music to feature Yale School of Music Professor of Bassoon Frank Morelli. Details TBA.