Celebrate Guitar at Fret Fest
Renowned guitarists Berta Rojas (
MM '98, GPD '00, Guitar), a three-time Latin Grammy nominee originally from Paraguay, and Allan Neave, who teaches at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, will be guest artists for the Peabody Preparatory's 9th annual celebration of the guitar, Fret Fest. The daylong event on Sunday, March 4, features guitar master classes, workshops, and guitar ensemble and guest artist concerts. The program, for students of all levels and ages, is a great way to discover the guitar or advance your playing skills. Visit the
Fret Fest webpage for more information.
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FROM THE DEAN
In much the same way that Peabody has put a stake in the ground around our new
Breakthrough Curriculum, so too have we as it pertains to
diversity and inclusion initiatives. There are four fundamental reasons for this commitment. First, it's the right thing do and doing the right thing will always be in the interest of the institution. Second, as we have seen in business and other enterprises, diversity begets excellence. And we are all about excellence. Third, musical barriers are breaking down. Different genres of music are influencing today's classical composers, and classical music is influencing other voices. In order to foster this fantastic and rich landscape, we benefit from different voices in that conversation, as performers, composers, and audiences. Which leads to the fourth, final, and equally important point. Diversity is key to future audience development. If we want to grow audiences for the future, we need to attract a more diverse audience. This will be even more essential as demographics shift in the United States over the coming three decades. We need to understand and leverage that shift. And ultimately, we will only truly diversify our audiences if we diversify performers on our stages. That is quite simply why the focus on diversity and inclusion is not only right, it's also smart and vital for the future of classical music and in the interest of all genres of music.
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ON STAGE / OFF CAMPUS
Sunday, February 18, 3:00 pm
Peabody students will be featured on the annual Peabody concert sponsored by the Columbia Chapter of
The Links, Incorporated, at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory's Kossiakoff Center in Laurel, Md. Yasmeen Richards, horn; Erick Engler, jazz trumpet; Kayin Scanterbury, jazz percussion; Jada Campbell, Randy Ryan, piano; Troy Long, jazz piano; Daniel Sampson, tenor; Randi Roberts; jazz voice; Samuel Hoch, guitar; Alexandra D'Amico, Sebastian Wintsch, viola; Ismael Guerrero, Dorian Latchague, Rachel Lulseged, cello; Allen Branch, Benjamin Hamilton, double bass; and alumna Eruejerien Okoh-Tisch (
BM '10, Cello) will perform works by composers as varied as Richard Strauss, J. S. Bach, William Grant Still, Herbie Hancock, and more. The concert is free and open to the public.
Friday, February 23; Saturday, February, 24, 7:30 pm
Misael Tambuwun, composition master's candidate, will have the world premiere of his piece
Pes Barbos Samogo with the
Amarillo Symphony, led by Jacomo Bairos (
GPD '11, Conducting). Tambuwun's piece won the West Texas A&M University's Young Composer's Initiative orchestral competition, a project launched by Bairos to build young regional composing talent.
Sunday, February 25, 2:00 pm
The Baltimore Classical Guitar Society has commissioned new works for a concert called "
Made in Baltimore," in celebration of the city and the society's 30th anniversary. Compositions inspired by the city written by Gabriel Bouche Caro (
MM '17, Composition), DMA candidate Jordan Chase, and Edmund Scott Miller (
MM '15, Composition, Music Theory Pedagogy) will be performed by Peabody students Katie Cho, Mengyi Li (
MM '17, Guitar), Connor Milstead, and Shon Stelman, guitars, and alumni Zoe Johnstone Stewart (
MM '05, Guitar) and Jeremy Lyons (
MM '11, DMA '15, Guitar; MM '15, Musicology). The event will take place at UMBC's Linehan Hall in Baltimore.
Thursday, March 1, 7:30 pm
Piotr Pakhomkin (
BM '08, MM '10, Guitar) will make his debut at Carnegie Hall with the
Chamber Orchestra of New York in Weill Hall, performing Vivaldi's D major Concerto, RV 93. He has also been signed to McDaniel Artist Management.
Friday, March 2; Saturday, March 3, 8:00 pm
Faculty artist Manuel Barrueco (
BM '75, Guitar) will join the
Annapolis Symphony Orchestra on their upcoming masterwork concert, in the Maryland Hall in Annapolis, Md. He will perform
Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquín Rodrigo with José-Luis Novo conducting.
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
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Faculty artist Marin Alsop, director of Peabody's graduate conducting program, was appointed the chief conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, starting in September 2019. Alsop will be the orchestra's first female conductor. She also won the Association of British Orchestras Award for her contributions to UK orchestral life and her work in closing the gender gap for women conductors.
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Preparatory student Henry Bushnell, cello, won the Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestra's concerto competition in the Concert Orchestra division. He played the first movement of Joseph Haydn, Concerto in C major.
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Faculty artist Thomas Dolby, who will lead Peabody's Music for New Media program, accepted the Roland Lifetime Achievement Award. The Roland Lifetime Achievement Awards recognize individuals for their invaluable contributions to the music industry while using Roland throughout their careers. At the ceremony, he discussed his relationship with the company and performed his hit, "She Blinded Me With Science."
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Byeong Woo Lee (
GPD '98, Guitar; GPD '00, Chamber Ensemble) is one of the composers of the official music for the Winter Olympics opening and closing ceremonies at the PyeongChang Olympic stadium. Lee's compositions for the ceremonies include music for the short film
River of Time, Future of All, as well as a piece titled
Peace in Motion. He has received multiple awards for his film scores including
The Host and
Mother.
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Dontae Winslow (
BM '97, MM '99, Trumpet) performed with Justin Timberlake at the Super Bowl half time show on Sunday, February 4. Winslow also arranged Timberlake's "Suit and Tie" for the University of Minnesota Marching Band, who performed it during the show.
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RECENT RECORDINGS
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Faculty artist Denise Tryon released a duo horn album,
A Pair of Aces, with Karl Pituch, Detroit Symphony's principal horn. Composers on the CD range from Telemann to Gunter Schuller. Alumnus Michael Sheppard (
BM '98, MM '00, GPD '03, Piano) joined the duo for a recording of Richard Bissill's
Time & Space.
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Kate Amrine (
MM '17, Trumpet), currently freelancing in New York City and teaching as an adjunct instructor at New York University, released her first album, titled
As I Am, featuring new music for trumpet by women composers.
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Inna Faliks (
BM '99, MM '01, GPD '03, Piano) released a recording on Delos Label, titled
Polonaise-Fantasie, the Story of a Pianist - a recital-monologue based on autobiographical essays, interspersed with a wide range of pieces from Bach, Mozart, and Chopin to Gershwin, Carter, and Birtwistle.
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Mary Matthews (
MM '10, Flute) released a new album,
Three-Nine Line. The debut album is a collection of solo and chamber works for flute and piccolo by the Atlanta-based composer Nicole Chamberlain.
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