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- 9th Concert of the Summer Cari...
Jonathan Edwards College Courtyard ...
Friday, August 14 at 7:00pm - Carillon Summer Concert Series...
Jonathan Edwards College Courtyard ...
Friday, June 19 at 7:00pm - 8th Concert of the Summer Cari...
Jonathan Edwards College Courtyard ...
Friday, August 7 at 7:00pm - 7th Concert of the Summer Cari...
Jonathan Edwards College Courtyard ...
Friday, July 31 at 7:00pm - 6th Concert of the Summer Cari...
Jonathan Edwards College Courtyard ...
Friday, July 24 at 7:00pm - 5th Concert of the Summer Cari...
Jonathan Edwards College Courtyard
Friday, July 17 at 7:00pm - 4th Concert of the Carillon Su...
Jonathan Edwards College Courtyard
Friday, July 10 at 7:00pm - Boudewijn Zwart Recital
Branford Courtyard, or anywhere you...
Sunday, April 6 at 5:00pm - Spring Ring
Branford Courtyard, or anywhere you...
Sunday, March 2 at 5:00pm
Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs Congratulations to our new members: Wendy, Kevin, Tiffany and Darren!
Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs Thomas Lee (b. 1983) was introduced to the carillon world while an undergraduate at Yale University. After graduating with a BA in psychology in 2005, he promptly ran to study at the Royal Carillon School ‘Jef Denyn’ in Mechelen on a Fulbright Grant. He graduated in 2006 with “Greatest Distinction”, and returned to t...he US where he received his Guild of Carillonneurs in North America accreditation in the same month. He is one half of the carillon duo “Campana Nova”, along with his carillon teacher Eddy Mariën, as well as a founding member of the Oscuro Quintet (www.oscuroquintet.com), Philadelphia’s first Tango Nuevo ensemble. He has played carillon concerts around the US, Belgium, and the Netherlands. In his spare time, he is a graduate student in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, and in his other, less frequent spare time, he enjoys salsa dancing.
Time:7:00PM Friday, August 14th
Location:Jonathan Edwards College Courtyard -- in the event of rain: LC 206
Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs Katherine and Vera are the summer carillonneurs of the Guild.
Vera Wuensche & Katherine Zhou from the Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs
Time:7:00PM Friday, August 7th
Location:Jonathan Edwards College Courtyard -- in the event of rain: LC 206
Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs
Ellen Dickinson holds the master of music degree in organ from the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music, and the Bachelor of Arts in music from Yale College. She has been Director of the Yale Freshman Chorus for the past three seasons, and is in her fifth season as Director of the Yale Summer Chorus. She ...is Music Director at Norfield Congregational Church in Weston, Connecticut, and has been music director at Tabor Lutheran Church in Branford, Simsbury United Methodist Church, and First United Methodist Church of Shelton. She has taught music and chorus at the University of Bridgeport and High School in the Community in New Haven.
As an undergraduate, Ellen was co-chair and summer carillonneur of the Yale Guild of Carillonneurs. She has attended the Summer Academy at the Netherlands Carillon School in Amersfoort, Netherlands. In June of 2000 she played an advancement recital to become a Carillonneur Member of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America. She has performed carillon recitals throughout the country.
Time:7:00PM Friday, July 31st
Location:Jonathan Edwards College Courtyard -- in the event of rain: LC 206
Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs Helen Hofmeister Hawley holds both her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in organ performance from the University of Kansas and has done post-graduate study in Cologne, Germany. She received her carillon instruction at the University of Kansas as a student of Albert Gerken. She is on the national board for the GCN...A (Guild of Carillonneurs in North America) and also has served as a juror on the Exam Committee. Ms. Hawley has performed carillon recitals in Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington; and in Europe, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Also an active member of the AGO (American Guild of Organists), she is on the executive board of the Grand Rapids Chapter. She currently serves as Minister of Music at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Time:7:00PM Friday, July 24th
Location:Jonathan Edwards College Courtyard -- in the event of rain: LC 206
Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs
DANIEL KERRY KEHOE has a carillon career spanning 35 years. He began playing in September 1974 while a student at Trinity College. He initially studied with carillonneur Raymond Keldermans in his home town of Springfield, Illinois. College summers were spent as a performing tourguide at the Rees Carillon in Springfie...ld, where he has twice returned to perform in the International Carillon Festival. From 1982 until 2007 Mr. Kehoe was the first appointed College Carillonneur at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He joined the music staff of the Simsbury United Methodist Church in July 2007.
In 1978 he studied briefly with Mr. Piet van den Broek at the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen, Belgium. Since that time Mr. Kehoe has performed extensively on towers throughout New England and the eastern seaboard. He has recorded two albums on the carillon, “Summer Sounds at Seven” and “A Carillon Christmas,” and is a Carillonneur member of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America.
In 2005 Mr. Kehoe conducted the premiere of his first commissioned work for choir, organ, handbells, and orchestra entitled “Journey Suite.” See www.JourneySuite.com.
Mr. Kehoe is the founder and director of the Around Town Singers, a community chorus in north central Connecticut. See www.AroundTownSingers.org for more information.
Time:7:00PM Friday, July 17th
Location:Jonathan Edwards College Courtyard
Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs
GORDON SLATER studied the piano from the age of four and started playing the carillon when he was seven by assisting his father, James, the former Carillonneur at the Metropolitan United Church in Toronto. Mr. Slater majored on bassoon at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music and later studied the carillon with ...Milford Myhre.
He held the position of Carillonneur at three Canadian carillons: the Rainbow Tower Carillon in Niagara Falls, Ontario; the Carlsberg Carillon of the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto; and the Soldiers’ Tower Carillon of the University of Toronto before being appointed Dominion Carillonneur of Canada in 1977. In the latter position Gordon Slater played the Peace Tower Carillon at the Houses of Parliament in Ottawa for 31 years. Now retired he continues to perform there occasionally, tour, teach and give carillon master classes.
Since 1978, Mr. Slater has been a Carillonneur member of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America and was co-editor, with his wife Elsa, of that organization’s annual Bulletin from 1979 to 1985. He has served on the Board of Directors, the Examination Committee and the Music Selection Committee. Mr. Slater has performed widely, in Canada, the United States, England, Europe, Australia and New Zealand and has made several carillon recordings. He holds the Berkeley Medal from the University of California at Berkeley for distinguished service to the carillon.
Gordon Slater conducts Divertimento Orchestra, a seventy-piece amateur symphony, and plays bassoon and contrabassoon with the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra.
Time:7:00PM Friday, July 10th
Location:Jonathan Edwards College Courtyard
Time:7:00PM Friday, June 19th
Location:Jonathan Edwards College Courtyard -- in the event of rain: LC 206
Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs Our guest performer is the City Carillonneur of Amsterdam!
Time:5:00PM Sunday, April 6th
Location:Branford Courtyard, or anywhere you can hear
April 3, 2008 at 5:50am
Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs Our newest members play a recital for the first time.
New Members Concert
Time:5:00PM Sunday, March 2nd
Location:Branford Courtyard, or anywhere you can hear
February 24, 2008 at 8:33pm
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