This interview series features Florrie Marshall, Founder of The Sound Bridges in conversation with musicians and artists who are doing innovative and important work in their respective fields.

Making Music at Yale

Produced by Yale University’S “Yale Talk” PODCAST

Yale students Florrie Marshall and Ryan Tani join President Peter Salovey in a conversation about creating music and using it to connect people, communicate shared experiences, and mark historic moments.

Aaron JAY Kernis, Composer

Grammy Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis is dedicated to creating music that can be meaningful to other people’s lives, and extend communication among us to make an emotional connection with listeners – while frequently challenging audiences and performers alike. His works have been programmed by orchestras, chamber groups, and recitalists around the world. Kernis’ works have also been commissioned by many of America’s foremost performing artists and institutions, and have been recorded and released by 11 different labels.

PUBLISHED INTERVIEW COMING SOON…

Maria Lambros, Viola

Violist Maria Lambros has performed as a chamber musician throughout the world as a member of three of the country's finest string quartets - Mendelssohn, Meliora and the Ridge String Quartets. She was most recently a member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet, which held residences at Harvard University and New York’s Town Hall, and is currently the violist with the New York-based chamber ensemble, La Fenice and The Cooperstown Quartet. Maria Lambros is the Founding Executive Director of Our Joyful Noise Baltimore, an organization which “serves the essential human need for beauty and connection with art through free live musical performances of the highest professional quality presented in underserved and often forgotten places in the Baltimore community.”

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DAVID LANG, COMPOSER

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang is passionate, prolific, and complicated, and embodies the restless spirit of invention. Lang is at the same time deeply versed in the classical tradition and committed to music that resists categorization, constantly creating new forms.

Peter Oundjian, Conductor

A dynamic presence in the conducting world, Peter Oundjian is renowned across the globe for his vibrant collaborative spirit and engaging musicality. His career spans five decades, beginning as a solo violinist, and first violinist of the Tokyo String Quartet, followed by an international conducting career leading orchestras in virtually every major musical center in the world.

Steven Tenenbom, violist

Steven Tenenbom has established a distinguished career as a chamber musician, soloist, recitalist and teacher and is on the faculties of The Curtis Institute of Music, The Juilliard School, The Bard College Conservatory of Music. He is the violist of the Orion String Quartet, and co-founder of the exciting piano quartet OPUS ONE. Among his many recordings are the complete Beethoven and Kirchner quartets with the Orion Quartet and Mozart viola quintets with the Guarneri Quartet. 

Jacob Marshall, multi-sensory artist and drummer

Jacob Marshall is a multi-sensory artist, founding member of the band MAE, and co-founder of EMBC. Jacob is an interdisciplinary creator and connector whose focus is on transcendent immersive artistic experiences. In 2019, he was the winner of the Spirit of Windrider Award at Sundance Film Festival, and had an original musical composition world premiere in Carnegie Hall with the UN Chamber Music Society and NY Philharmonic.

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Astrid Baumgardner, career CONSULTANT

Trained as a lawyer and career coach, Astrid Baumgardner teaches creativity and career entrepreneurship and heads the Office of Career Strategies at the Yale School of Music and is president of her coaching company, Astrid Baumgardner Coaching+Training. A leading voice in arts entrepreneurship, she is the author of the book, Creative Success Now. Ms. Baumgardner coaches and guest lectures on creative success at universities and festivals including The Juilliard School, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and the Sō Percussion Summer Institute.

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Mark Rabideau, Cultural Entrepreneur

Mark Rabideau is Director of 21CM (21st-Century Musician Initiative) at Depauw University, and is re-imagining how we must prepare musicians to thrive within the shifting marketplace and cultural landscape of the contemporary moment. Mark is editor and publisher of 21CM.org, editor of the College of Music/Routledge series: Emerging Fields in Music, and serves on the editorial board of Artivate.

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Kenji Williams, composer

Kenji Williams, founder and director of Bella Gaia makes his mark through collaborative work, establishing the place of art in the modern world of science and culture. Kenji is an entrepreneur, composer and director for immersive live theater, mixed reality, and interactive data-visualization,  and is the creative director and producer of the NASA-powered earth-from-space show, BELLA GAIA.

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Adam Neiman, pianist

Grammy Nominee and world-renowned concert pianist Adam Neiman is Founder of Aeolian Classics, LLC, Assistant Professor of Piano at Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, and a composer. Adam has achieved renown as an industry leader, pedagogue, entrepreneur, and record producer.

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