 Situated
in the Litchfield Hills of Northwest Connecticut, an area of rolling
hills, forests and winding country roads, the village of Norfolk
has hosted the Yale Summer School of Music – Norfolk Chamber
Music Festival since 1941. The School and Festival are committed
to intensive professional training of gifted young musicians through
coaching, concerts, lectures and master classes. Study is intimate
and focused.
Three programs are offered for summer 2009: a two-week New Music
Workshop, a six-week Chamber Music Session and a one-week Chamber Choir and Choral
Conducting Workshop. The admissions process is highly competitive,
and the Norfolk programs are among the most selective summer music
offerings in the world.
All participants in the New Music Workshop and the Chamber
Music Session
receives a full scholarship covering tuition, housing
and meals.
 During the months of June, July and August all programs offer
a series of concerts. Performers include the Festival's renowned
Faculty, guest artists and Fellows.
Summer 2009 will feature many acclaimed ensembles and artists
including the Keller Quartet, the Tokyo String Quartet (which
celebrated its 30th summer at Norfolk in 2007) and many other world class artists who come to Norfolk to teach
and perform.
In 2009 composer Martin Bresnick will lead the New Music Workshop
which will focus on music for voice. The summer
rounds out with Conductor Simon Carrington who will return to
direct the Chamber Choir and Choral Conducting Workshop.
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CHAMBER
MUSIC SESSION 
Sunday,
July 5 - Sunday, August 16
All
accepted Fellows will receive an
Ellen Battell Stoeckel Scholarship to cover the full cost of tuition, housing and meals.
The six-week Chamber Music Session is open to advanced individual instrumentalists as well as preformed trios, quartets and quintets. Limited to an enrollment of forty participants, the program offers
concentrated coaching and many performance opportunities for strings,
woodwinds, brass and piano. Preformed trios, quartets & quintets
are strongly encouraged to apply.
Fellows who are not part of a preformed group will audition for ensemble
placement upon arrival in Norfolk. String quartets, woodwind quintets,
brass ensembles and mixed-instrument ensembles are formed from the
individual Fellows accepted into the program.
Fellows receive coaching from the Artist-Faculty who rotate throughout
the session. Public performances by Norfolk Fellows are scheduled
twice or more weekly on the popular Norfolk Fellows Performance Series. In
addition, Norfolk’s Artist-Faculty perform with Fellows on the
Festival Master Series whenever possible.
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2009 FACULTY/ARTISTS INCLUDE:
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STRINGS
Tokyo String
Quartet
Keller Quartet (Hungary)
Leschetizky Trio (Vienna)
Ying Quartet
Ole
Akahoshi, cello
Syoko Aki, violin
Shmuel Ashkenasi violin
Marc Johnson, cello
Ani Kavafian, violin
Mathias Tacke, violin
PIANO
Claude Frank
Peter Frankl
Joan Panetti
André-Michel
Schub
Wei-Yi Yang
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WINDS
Patti
Monson, flute
Ransom Wilson flute
Carol
Wincenc, flute
Humbert
Lucarelli, oboe
Stephen
Taylor, oboe
David
Shifrin, clarinet
Richard
Stoltzman, clarinet
Frank
Morelli, bassoon
BRASS
William
Purvis, horn
Allan
Dean, trumpet
Scott
Hartman, trombone |
VOICE
Janna
Baty, soprano
James Taylor, tenor
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NEW
MUSIC WORKSHOP
For Composers and Mixed Ensembles
Led by Martin Bresnick
 Sunday,
June 21 - Saturday, July 4
All
accepted Fellows will receive an
Ellen Battell Stoeckel Scholarship to cover the full cost of tuition,
housing and
meals.
The philosophy behind Norfolk's New Music Workshop is the equal interaction
and collaboration between composers and performers, all under the
supervision of distinguished resident composers and guest faculty.
Fellows take part in a rigorous curriculum of coaching, master classes,
rehearsals, discussions and performances. In addition, there is ample
time for composing and practicing.
The Workshop is interactive, focusing
on the process of musical creation from concept to concert. Each composition
Fellow will write a new work to be premiered at Norfolk. Performers
will workshop compositions in partnership with each composer over
the two weeks. Each composition is also recorded during its premiere
performance in the Music Shed.
Space is available for up to
five talented composers and six instrumentalists. Instrumentation
for the workshop this year is: clarinet,
trombone, piano, percussion, violin and double bass.
2009
FACULTY/ARTISTS INCLUDE
Martin
Bresnick,
composer
Lisa Moore,
piano
J.J. Penna, piano
Susan Narucki, soprano
Scott Wheeler, composer
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 CHAMBER
CHOIR & CHORAL
CONDUCTING WORKSHOP
Led
by Simon Carrington
Sunday,
August 16 - Sunday, August 23
All
accepted singers will receive an
Ellen Battell Stoeckel Scholarship to cover the full cost of tuition, housing and meals. Conductors must submit $500 towards the cost of the program.
 World-renowned conductor Simon Carrington leads this week-long workshop
of coachings, master classes, rehearsals and seminars for advanced
singers and choral conductors.
Repertoire
will range from the Renaissance to the21st century and will include
both choral and instrumental music. Conductors will sing as a member
of the choir; in addition they will have the opportunity to conduct
instrumental as well as choral ensembles.
The week will culminate
with a concert in the acoustically superb Music Shed featuring the
Fellows of the Workshop. All Workshop sessions and the final concert
will be audio and video recorded.
2008 FACULTY/ARTISTS INCLUDED
Simon
Carrington, conductor
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