Paul Hawkshaw

Paul Hawkshaw is Professor in the Practice of Music History at the Yale School of Music and Director of the Norfolk Chamber Festival. He is recognized as an authority on the music of Anton Bruckner. Dr. Hawkshaw’s publications include seven volumes of Anton Bruckner’s Collected Works (Vienna) which are performed by major orchestras and choruses throughout the world. His articles have appeared in the Musical Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Music and the Oesterreichische Musikzeitschrift, and he wrote the Bruckner biography for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. In 1996 he was awarded the special honor of an invitation from the Austrian National Library, Vienna, to give the commemorative address celebrating the centenary of the composer’s death.

Since coming to Yale in 1984, Dr. Hawkshaw has taken an active interest in community affairs and public education in New Haven. He was co-founder of a program involving Yale Music Faculty and students in the curriculum at the local Co-operative High School for the Arts. In 1998 the program was recognized by Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley as a model of how music plays an integral role in improving overall education standards. Dr. Hawkshaw has also helped organize and participated in a number of teacher training initiatives for New Haven Public School teachers on the Yale Campus. Most recently he worked with the local Board of Education and the Yale University Class of ‘57 to establish an experimental music and literacy program at the Lincoln Bassett School, an elementary inner city public school in New Haven, Connecticut. In May 2007 the Class announced the establishment of an endowment of $6,000,000.00 at the Yale School of Music to support music education and public school music education.

Dr. Hawkshaw has been publicly recognized for his contribution to the New Haven schools by an official proclamation of Mayor John DeStefano and, in the spring of 2000, he was awarded the Yale School of Music’s highest honor, the Simon Sanford Medal, for his scholarship and community service.