First Concert Live Stream of the Season Features Marin Alsop and Peabody Symphony Orchestra
The first concert live stream of this season will feature Marin Alsop, director of the Graduate Conducting Program, leading the Peabody Symphony Orchestra on Friday, October 28, at 8:00 pm. At the concert celebrating the 150th anniversary of the dedication of the Peabody Institute and the newly renovated Friedberg Hall (see photo, above), the PSO will perform Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 and Aaron Jay Kernis' Second Symphony. The live stream event (#PeabodyLive) will begin at 8:00 pm EST and can be viewed live on Johns Hopkins Ustream channel.
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FROM THE DEAN
Peabody is about to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall in a program conducted by Marin Alsop that includes Aaron Jay Kernis' second symphony, to be featured on the Peabody Symphony Orchestra's second CD on Naxos. New music is thriving here at Peabody as demonstrated by the recent release of the first PSO CD on Naxos featuring the works of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and Peabody faculty member Kevin Puts. The disc has received critical acclaim, spending several weeks on Billboard's "top classical" release list. With projects like these, Peabody stakes an artistic claim to music of our time.
Peabody is also staking out a vibrant role in our community. For two intense hours on October 11, the Peabody "Pop Ups" saw 31 students from the Conservatory fan out to 17 different sites around Baltimore offering mini-concerts that surprised and delighted unsuspecting listeners. Sites included City Hall, Penn Station, Market Place, Kennedy-Krieger Institute, Kimmel Cancer Center, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore VA Medical Center, Manna House, Marian House, My Sister's Place, Basilica Place, New Shiloh Village Senior Living, Pratt Library/Pennsylvania Avenue Branch, Motor House, Baltimore Impact Hub, Station North Tool Library, and Open Works Studio.
Peabody musicians are making a difference. On campus, in the community, and beyond in the world of music, Peabody is taking a leadership role in training and showcasing the next generation of professional musicians, while leading a dialogue about the importance of music and the arts here in Baltimore, as well as nationally and internationally.
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ON STAGE / OFF CAMPUS
The seventh Baltimore Lieder Weekend, founded and directed by Daniel Schlosberg (BM '00, MM '01, Piano; KSAS BA '00, History), will take place at An die Musik with the theme of "Schubert 1828." Performers this year include Mr. Schlosberg, baritone Ryan De Ryke (MM '02, AD '04, Voice), faculty artist Ah Young Hong (BM '98, MM '01, Voice), and Michael Sheppard (BM '98, MM '01, GPD '03, Piano). All events are free, courtesy of Free Fall Baltimore.
Friday, October 21, 12:15 pm
DMA candidate Ted Davis, organ, will perform on the free
Fridays at Trinity series at Trinity Church in Boston. This weekly series of midday organ concerts features innovative programs by recitalists from across the United States and abroad.
Monday, October 24, 9:00 pm
Gilgore/Truet's Breakfast of Champions featuring Jarrett Gilgore (BM '15, Jazz Saxophone) and faculty artist Michael Formanek will give a concert at the Windup Space in Baltimore.
Saturday, November 5; 8:00 pm; Sunday, November 6, 3:00 pm
Tenor Joshua Diaz (MM '13, Voice) and mezzo-soprano Taylor Hillary Boykins (MM '14, Voice) will make their debut with Symphony Number One at St. Ignatius Church in Baltimore. The performances will feature Mahler's Song of the Earth and a world premiere of doctoral composition candidate Natalie Draper's Timelapse Variations.
Sunday, November 6, 3:00 pm
Michael Britt (BM '94, Organ) will be joined by organists Marie-Louise Langlais, Eileen Guenther, and Henry Lowe to present a concert honoring organ faculty artist John C. Walker, immediate past president of the American Guild of Organists, at Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church in Baltimore. Three choral works composed in Mr. Walker's honor will also be performed.
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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Pianist Soojung Kim, a GPD candidate studying with Yong Hi Moon, won first place as well as Best Performance of Ballade by Li-Ly Chang in the 2016 International Young Artist Piano Competition in Washington, D.C. Yesse Kim, a master's piano student studying with Ms. Moon, won second place. Prizes for the students include a cash award and professionally recorded CD.
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Liz Ramirez (
BM '09, Clarinet) has been accepted to Youth Orchestra of the Americas' Global Leadership Program. The program combines teacher training, leadership development, innovative thinking, and social enterprise to empower change makers and teaching artists. Through the program, Ms. Ramirez will have the chance to travel across the globe in immersive mission work centered around music education.
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Jake Runestad (
MM '11, Composition) served as composer-in-residence with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale where he worked with Creativity for Peace, a training program for Palestinian and Israeli women to be peacemakers in their communities. His new work,
Reflections, is a setting of journal writings by Henry David Thoreau for choir and piano and was premiered by the Santa Fe Desert Chorale.
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DMA candidate Meng-Sheng Shen, a piano student of Boris Slutsky, won third prize in the San Marino Piano Competition in the Republic of San Marino in September. He competed against 261 competitors from 41 different countries. As winner, he will tour in the Republic of San Marino, Italy, and Germany next concert season.
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DMA candidate Xiao-Hui Yang, a piano student of Boris Slutsky, won the gold medal at the 26th New Orleans International Piano Competition at Loyola University. Re Zhang, a graduate student of Boris Slutsky, won the silver medal. They were awarded cash prizes, solo recitals, and performance opportunities with various orchestras including the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.
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RECENT RECORDINGS
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This new CD celebrating Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla features Nancy Roldán (
MM '76, DMA '89, Piano); José Cuerto, violin; and Gabriella Cavallero, voice, and was released by Centaur Records. For this album, Mr. Piazzolla's works for violin and piano have been paired with excerpts from
The Magic Fire by Argentine playwright Lilian Garret-Groag. Some of the works on the CD were recorded in Peabody's Leith Symington Griswold Hall.
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The Poulenc Trio -
Bryan Young (BM '96, Bassoon); Preparatory faculty artist Irina Kaplan Lande, piano; and Liang Wang, oboe - released a new CD under the Delos label which climbed to #4 on iTunes Apple Music's classical playlist. The CD features the works of Beethoven, Schnittke, and Octavio Vazquez, with poetry by Lia Purpura. They will perform several concerts this month in British Columbia, Canada.
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Tracy Anne Smith (DMA '12, Guitar) has released a CD titled Music for Two Guitars as a part of the guitar duo ChromaDuo with Rob MacDonald. The CD is the first to feature a program of Impressionist composers, Ravel and Debussy, transcribed for two guitars. It includes arrangements of Debussy's Claire de lune and Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales.
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