Ipsilon Music Services comprises some of New York City’s finest music professionals offering a broad range of musical services, in both classical and popular genres. Our staff members have years of experience as arrangers, editors, copyists, composers, music directors, recording producers, performers, and stage directors.
We provide personalized service on each and every project, attending to the smallest detail, insuring that our clients get the finest possible result.
John Yaffé
At the head of the team is the company’s President, John Yaffé. Since 1996, John Yaffé has been Music Director of both the orchestra of New York City’s prestigious 92nd Street Y and Encompass New Opera Theatre; from 1999 to 2004, he was Music Director also of the Centre Symphony Orchestra. He recently led special performances for Carnegie Hall, with the Colorado Springs Symphony, the San Antonio Symphony, the Staten Island Symphony, the Warsaw Philharmonic (Warsaw Autumn Festival), as well as the world premiere of Louis Gioia’s opera Un Racconto Fiorentino at Lincoln Center. He trained in Los Angeles, Florence (Italy) and at the New York City Opera. Guest engagements in Maryland, Connecticut, Michigan, California, Washington, D.C., and at Wolf Trap, followed, after which he spent ten years as a conductor in the German opera houses of Hagen, Münster, Osnabrück and Stuttgart, and with orchestras in Remscheid, Konstanz, Munich, and Stuttgart. From 1989 to 1991, he was Resident Conductor of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra and has served also as co-director of the Orchestral and Chamber Music Program of the Tanglewood Institute. Further guest engagements include the San Antonio Symphony, Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, Walla Walla Symphony, State Opera of Turkey. He has led performances of numerous new works with Encompass New Opera Theatre, American Opera Projects, and at The Kitchen.
John Yaffé is a devoted advocate of contemporary composers of all styles and has worked for years with composers as their music editor. He was responsible for the acclaimed restoration of Irving Berlin’s Louisiana Purchase, performed at Carnegie Hall and now available on CD. He has numerous commercial recording to his credit, including premiere recordings of the music of Norma Wendelburg, Frank Loch, William Thomas McKinley, and Marvin Schluger. As well, he has produced recordings of the complete piano music of Earle Brown, the songs of Leo Sowerby, and the complete piano music of Luciano Berio. As a pianist, he has performed widely in recitals with his wife, soprano Juliana Janes-Yaffé, with whom he has recorded German, Italian and American art song literature.