News and Events
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2011
April 7th, 2011 – The Collegium Musicum will sing in the Madrigal Dinner Committee's spring Masquerade Ball! Please visit the Student Events Center website for more information. Attendance is free.
April 25th, 2011 – The Collegium Musicum performs its spring concert, including works by Schütz, Parry, Rheinberger, Regnart, Dett, and P.D.Q. Bach The concert will take place at 8:00 PM in the brand-new SAC auditorium. Attendance is free!
2010
November 17th–20th, 2010 – Bram leads the Collegium Musicum in song as part of the University Unions' annual Madrigal Dinner! Please visit the Student Events Center website to purchase tickets.
November 11th, 2010 – Ray Nagem (M.M., Juilliard '11) will premiere Bram's work for organ, "How to Cross the Susquehanna," at the November CLUTCH concert! Come to Bates Hall (Music Recital Hall, Butler School of Music) at 7:30 to hear "Susquehanna" and other works by UT composers. The concert is free!
November 4th, 2010 (date and location tentative) – Bram will conduct his first entire concert program as the Collegium Musicum takes the stage! This exciting performance will include works by Monteverdi, Byrd, Certon, Senfl, and other masters of the Renaissance. Come hear this milestone concert in Jessen Auditorium (Homer Rainey Hall) at 7:00 PM. Admission is free.
October 29th, 2010 – Bram will perform with the University of Texas Men's Chorus in their annual fall concert, conducting Marshall Bartholomew's timeless arrangement of the folk song, "Shenandoah." Do not miss this performance. Bates Auditorium (Music Recital Hall, Butler School of Music), 7:30 PM.
October 16th, 2010 – Hasmig Aroian (B.M., UT '11) will perform "Bessie's Song to Her Doll" as part of her senior recital. The recital will take place at 5:30 in Jessen Auditorium (Homer Rainey Hall).
September 8th, 2010 – Bram is commissioned to create a new arrangement of "U. N. I. Fight!," the fight song of the University of Northern Iowa, for their Varsity Men's Glee Club.
August 30th, 2010 – Bram returns to the University of Texas Men's Chorus to serve as Assistant Conductor for his second year.
June 12th, 2010 – Bram teams up with Ray Nagem (M.M., Juilliard '11) to create a short documentary on collaboration between composers and performers. Some filming was done at the Detroit Film Theatre, part of the Detroit Institute of Arts, on their unaltered 1927 Casavant organ. Many thanks to the DFT for all their assistance!
May 17th, 2010 – Bram is appointed Director of the Collegium Musicum, the student early music chorus that comprises part of the University of Texas Madrigal Dinner Committee. Look for more information, including a call for auditions, in the early fall!
April 17th, 2010 – Carrie Wachsberger (Syracuse '10) performs her commissioned art song, "Bessie's Song to Her Doll," as part of her senior recital.
April 9th, 2010 – Bram conducts two pieces with the University of Texas Men's Chorus in their spring concert.
2009
October 30th, 2009 – Bram's conducting debut: Mendelssohn's "Laudate Pueri," performed by the University of Texas Men's Chorus.
September 29th, 2009 – Bram receives his UT premiere, of the miniature "Have We Forgotten," performed by the University of Texas New Music Ensemble.
August 17th, 2009 – Bram begins his first term in the Master's of Music in Composition program at the Butler School of Music, University of Texas at Austin.
May 26th–June 13th, 2009 – The Yale Glee Club performs Through Eden at its repertory concerts on tour in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo. See the Yale Glee Club website for details.
May 25th, 2009 – Bram receives his degree as Bachelor of Arts in Music from Yale University.
May 24th, 2009 – The Yale Glee Club performs Through Eden at the annual Commencement Concert.
May 20th, 2009 – A new chamber work, "The Mirror," receives its first reading. This piece is personally very important to me, and is my greatest musical accomplishment to date. Take a listen to the recording here.
2008
November 14th, 2008 – The Yale Glee Club premiers Through Eden at the Yale-Princeton Glee Club concert.
October 20th, 2008 – The Yale Glee Club announces Bram Wayman's composition Through Eden as the winner of the 2008 Fenno Heath Award.
October 19th, 2008 – Bram Wayman co-hosts "Music in the Master's House," the first of a Saybrook concert series this year. A piece of his will be on the program. 3:00 - 4:00 PM in the Saybrook Master's House (entryway N). All are welcome!
August 3rd - 16th, 2008 – Bram Wayman interns as Assistant Musical Director at the Stratford Festival Shakespeare School in Stratford, Ontario.
June 5th, 2008 – Craig Wright, Professor at Yale University, presents "Justorum Animæ," from Words from Heaven and Earth, at The Juilliard School in a symposium on Medieval music and contemporary composers.
May 24th, 2008 – The Yale Glee Club Chamber Singers once again program "Justorum Animæ," from Words from Heaven and Earth, for the Yale Glee Club's 2008 Commencement Concert. 8:00 PM in Sprague Hall.
May 1st, 2008 – Score to Sundays is performed by the original musicians at the IGIGI New Music Marathon, Bram Wayman conducting.
May 1st, 2008 – Premiere of Sundays, a film by Murat C. Bey, includes an original score.
April 30th, 2008 – her she me, a collaboration with five other Yale students, is performed as part of a Yale College New Music program. 6:00 PM in the ballroom of 220 York St.
April 25th, 2008 – Bram Wayman is awarded the Abraham Beekman Cox Prize by the Yale College Department of Music.
April 18th, 2008 – Bram Wayman is awarded the Joseph Lentilhon Selden Memorial Award by the Yale College Council of Masters.
April 4th, 2008 – The Yale Glee Club Chamber Singers perform "Justorum Animæ," the fifth motet from Words from Heaven and Earth. 4:30 PM in Sudler Hall.
March 5th, 2008 – The Yale Symphony Orchestra records an excerpt from Memories of Eberwhite Woods in a reading session of new music for orchestra.
February 28th, 2008 – counter)induction, the acclaimed new-music quintet from New York City, premiers a movement from Fantasia for Viola and Piano in a concert of new student works. 4:30 PM in the Whitney Humanities Centre auditorium.
February 14th, 2008 – A student ensemble from the Yale School of Music premiers Sentinel in a performance of new student works at the Yale Art Gallery.
January 13th, 2008 – counter)induction records a movement from Fantasia for Viola and Piano in a reading of student works.
2007
October 11th - 13th, 2007 – Icarus, produced by the Dramat, includes an original score. Thursday through Saturday at 8:00 PM and Saturday at 2:00 PM in the Undergraduate Theatre.