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Maiani da Silva

Yale University, MUSI 2238
Contemporary Chamber Music Performance

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Maiani da Silva

Instructor

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Maiani da Silva and Annika Socolofsky, performing 

Gemma Peacocke's Cicada

Photo by: Benita de Wit

MUSI 2238 welcomes you! This is a performance course for qualified Yale College and School of Music musicians. All instruments (including voice) welcome. 

The class focuses on the preparation and performance of contemporary chamber music works, emphasizing musical and idiomatic problem solving, as well as an opportunity for collaborative workshopping methods for new pieces written primarily by student composers for MUSI 2238 students (in collaboration with MUSI 4220 – Comp Seminar III, led by Dr. A and Konrad Kaczmarek).

Students learn about musical analysis through performance, leadership skills, artistic autonomy/the discovery of one’s own voice, productional planning, performance as a visual medium, arrangements, extended techniques, and the performer’s role in bringing to life a new piece.

Guest Artist
& Collaborators

2021-present day

Jennifer Gersten

Jennifer Gersten

violinist & journalist

Rhonda Rider

Rhonda Rider

cellist

David Harrington

David Harrington

violinist of Kronos Quartet

Lina Andonovska

Lina Andonovska

flutist with Eighth Blackbird

Mikael Darmanie

Mikael Darmanie

pianist

Ken Thomson

Ken Thomson

composer, and clarinests of Bang On a Can

Kareem Roustom

Kareem Roustom

composer

Raven Chacon

Raven Chacon

composer

Kinan Azmeh

Kinan Azmeh

clarinetist

Karen Power

Karen Power

composer

Lisa Kaplan

Lisa Kaplan

pianist, and co-founder of Eighth Blackbird

Ross Wightman

Ross Wightman

double bassist and composer

Anna Koch

Anna Koch

clarinetist

Briana Matzke

Briana Matzke

pianist

Amanda Gookin

Amanda Gookin

cellist

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composition as explanation album Maiani da Silva violinist

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