Peabody Plays Light City Baltimore
Light City Baltimore, the first large-scale, international light festival in the United States, aims to be a celebration of ideas, ingenuity, and creativity through art, music, and innovation. So it's no surprise that Peabody faculty, alumni, and students will take part. Homewood Professor of the Arts Thomas Dolby will be a headline performer on opening night, Monday, March 28 at 10:00 pm. The Peabody Preparatory Wind Orchestra, led by Elijah Wirth, will perform on the Light up the Night! Stage at Inner Harbor Amphitheater on Wednesday, March 30 at 8:30 pm. Peabody Brass Invasion - a program comprised of the Aeris Brass Ensemble, 5 Guys Brass, the Downtown Brass Ensemble, the Peabody Trumpet Ensemble, and alumni-driven guest ensemble Beauty Slap- will perform at the amphitheater on Sunday, April 3 at 8:30 pm. Several other Peabody artists are featured throughout the week; for the full schedule, visit Light City Baltimore.
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FROM THE DEAN
This past fall we launched a new series, the
Dean's Symposiums, modeled on our highly successful "What's Next for Classical Music?" event, presented at Peabody in October 2014. The Dean's Symposiums are intended to advance an ongoing, open, and thoughtful dialogue about the future of classical music and the issues and trends facing our field. The insights and learnings offered by our guests should help us think differently about that future and how we both shape and respond to it.
This year, we have already welcomed Norman Lebrecht, cultural commentator, writer, and founder of one of classical music's most widely read blogs; and most recently, Howard Herring, president and CEO of the New World Symphony which, like Peabody, is on a journey of how to best train musicians for a very different environment and world than existed even just a few decades ago.
In the coming weeks, we'll welcome as part of the Dean's Symposiums the groundbreaking International Contemporary Ensemble's (ICE) founder and artistic director, Claire Chase; David Handler and Justin Kantor, co-founders of New York's most innovative alternative venue, Le Poisson Rouge; and the president of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Deborah Rutter.
And as we plan next year's series, we welcome your suggestions of symposium guests at
blambert@jhu.edu. I invite you to join us - either here on campus or live on-line (see the details, below) - and look forward to your participation in the Dean's Symposiums.
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ON STAGE / OFF CAMPUS
Tuesday, March 8, 7:30 pm
Andrea Casarrubios (
BM '11, Cello) and Shir Semmel (
GPD '14, Piano) will perform as members of Ensemble ACJW - a program by Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute - in
Paul Hall at Carnegie Hall. They will perform works by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Osvaldo Golijov, and Dmitri Shostakovich.
Friday, March 11; Monday, March 28, 2:30 pm
On Friday, March 11, Claire Chase, flutist and founder of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), will join Peabody Dean Fred Bronstein for a conversation in the Dean's Symposium Series in Joe Byrd Hall. On Monday, March 28, David Handler and Justin Kantor, co-founders of Le Poisson Rouge, will speak on the series in Cohen-Davison Family Theatre. Both events are free and open to the public and available to view online via
live stream.
Tuesday, March 22, 7:30 pm
Peabody faculty artist Amit Peled, cello, will recreate his Peabody Founder's Day concert paying homage to the legendary cellist Pablo Casals at the Herbst Theatre presented by San Francisco Performance. Mr. Peled will be joined by pianist Noreen Polera performing works by Handel, Bach, Beethoven, Fauré, and Saint-Saëns. They will also perform the West Coast premiere of Lera Auerbach's La Suite dels Ocells (The Suite of the Birds).
Tuesday, March 22; Wednesday, March 23, 7:30 pm, 9:30 pm
Ensemble Kolossus, with faculty artist Michael Formanek, jazz bass, will play its official CD release concert for The Distance at The Jazz Standard in New York. The CD's review in Downbeat Magazine marks Mr. Formanek's third consecutive five-star "Masterpiece Rating" review from the publication since 2010.
Tuesday, March 29, 8:00 pm
Faculty artists will present a recital titled "
Poets and Another Planet," as part of the Sylvia Adalman Chamber Series. Violaine Melançon, James Stern, violins; Victoria Chiang, Maria Lambros, violas; and Michael Kannen, Alan Stepansky, cellos, will perform Richard Strauss' Sextet from
Capriccio, Op. 85. William Sharp, baritone, and Seth Knopp, piano, will perform Robert Schumann's
Dichterliebe, Op. 48. Hyunah Yu, soprano; Violaine Melançon, James Stern, violins; Maria Lambros, viola; and Michael Kannen, cello, will perform Arnold Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 2 in F-sharp minor, Op. 10. The event, in Peabody's Leith Symington Griswold Hall, will be available to view online via
live stream.
Peabody Events highlights select off-campus or live-streamed performances featuring Peabody performers. For other events, please visit our Peabody Institute Concerts Facebook page. For the complete weekly list of concerts at Peabody, subscribe to Events at Peabody at peabody.jhu.edu/news.
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ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENTS
Paul Avgerinos (
BM '81, Double Bass
) won the Grammy award for Best New Age Album for
Grace
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Peggy Houng (
BM '14 Harp) won second prize in the ENKOR International Music Competition, a global internet competition for classical music performers with hundreds of jury members. Master's student Olivia Kim (
BM '15, Harp) won third prize. They both studied with Ruth Inglefield.
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Norman Huynh (
MM '13, Conducting) was named the Oregon Symphony's new Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Associate Conductor. His duties include working closely with Music Director Carlos Kalmar; conducting school, kids, and special concerts; being prepared to substitute for any conductor at a moment's notice; and participating in the day-to-day affairs of the Symphony including education and community engagement programs.
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DMA candidate Sungpil Kim performed Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488, with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra led by Arthur Arnold at Moscow Conservatory's Grand Hall on January 23. He also presented a concert for the U.S. Embassy at the Spaso House in Moscow on a piano previously played by renowned pianist Vladimir Horowitz. Mr. Kim is a student of Brian Ganz.
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Javier Iglesias Martin (
BM '14, Cello) was a first prize winner at the American String Teachers Association 2016 National Solo Competition. He was awarded $1,000 as a Laureate finalist. Mr. Martin studied with Amit Peled.
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Andrew Sauvageau (
MM '08, GPD '10, Voice) performed the UK premiere of Louis Andriessen's most recent music theatre work,
La Commedia, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra led by Martyn Brabbins. The work is inspired by Dante's
Divine Comedy. The performance was broadcast by the BBC on February 20.
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RECENT RECORDINGS
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One Great City Duo with guitarists Timothy Sherren (BM '11, Guitar) and Alexandra Iranfar (BM '11, Guitar), who also sings vocals, recently released Excursions, produced by guitarist Sérgio Assad. The album features original arrangements by Mr. Sherren of Barber's "Excursions" suite and works by Cole Porter, Ned Rorem, and Pat Metheny, as well as three short pieces by Celso Machado.
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Soprano Laura Whittenberger (
MM '14, Voice) and master's vocal accompanying student Peyson Moss released
Never Give All the Heart, a selection of love poems by W.B. Yeats set to music by Raymond Driver. Ms. Whittenberger studied with Stanley Cornett, and Mr. Moss currently studies with Eileen Cornett.
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TRANSITS: Minimal to Mayhem
features orchestral, chamber, and electronic works by Sergio Cervetti (BM '67, Composition) from 1975 to 2013. Another CD of his works, Las Indias Olvidadas - The Forgotten Indies, was released in Spain in December and features a harpsichord concerto commissioned by the Alicante Music Festival.
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