Richard Lalli

Richard Lalli has performed around the world as a singer and pianist, and has taught at Yale University since 1982. Highlights of his performance career include solo recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall and other European venues, and performances of Schoenberg’s Ode to Napoleon with Peter Serkin and the Brentano String Quartet. Lalli is a champion of new music, having premiered works of Pulizer Prize recipients Ned Rorem and Lewis Spratlan. With pianist Gary Chapman, Lalli has recorded four discs of popular songs; their recording accompanies a Yale University Press publication, Listening to Classical American Popular Songs, by Allen Forte. In 1991 he helped found the Mirror Visions Ensemble and appeared with it in the United States and abroad.

In 2006 Mr. Lalli was awarded the Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities at Yale University. His recording of Yehudi Wyner’s The Mirror was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2005. In 2010 he was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award by the Yale School of Music.