All Concerts at Peabody are Free in 2016-17
Today the box office at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University opens for its 2016-17 season - featuring world-renowned guest conductors, acclaimed faculty soloists, and talented student ensembles - and beginning this year all concerts at Peabody are free. The season opens with renowned guest conductor Leon Fleisher, Peabody's Andrew W. Mellon Chair in Piano, leading the Peabody Symphony Orchestra with faculty soloists on Saturday, September 24. Director of Peabody's Graduate Conducting Program Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; and Leonard Slatkin, music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre National de Lyon, will be at the helm of the PSO in three performances. Alumni conductors Joseph Young,
assistant conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and Steven Jarvi,
winner of the 2009 Bruno Walter Memorial Foundation Award, will return to their alma mater to lead performances by the Peabody Concert Orchestra. All concerts at Peabody, including those led by guest conductors and main stage operas, will be
FREE; some require tickets for reserved seating. Visit the Peabody
website for more information or to reserve tickets.
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FROM THE DEAN
It's an exciting time here at Peabody as we launch the 2016-17 academic year. There is so much that is going on. I do want to take this moment to say how much we look forward to building on the success of last year's Dean's Symposiums with our new series announced here:
Peabody Dean's Symposium Series Welcomes Music Industry Thought Leaders. In this second year we welcome Aaron Dworkin, founder of the Sphinx Organization and dean of the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater, and Dance; Blair Tindall, author of
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music, the book which formed the basis for Amazon Studio's show now in its third season; Alex Ross, award-winning writer and chief music critic for
The New Yorker; and Peter Sellars, renowned opera and theater director known for his innovative productions; as featured speakers in the
2016-17 Dean's Symposium Series. The Dean's Symposium Series provides a platform to discuss the future of music and the issues facing professional musicians today. These four guests are among the most innovative, forward-thinking artists and leaders out there. As practitioners and writers, to a person they are clear-eyed and insightful about the challenges facing our industry and bold in their work to advance music. I look forward to engaging our community in these important conversations. To learn more about other initiatives, I invite you to read my recent
newsletter to the Peabody community.
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ON STAGE / OFF CAMPUS
A three-day festival/retrospective of the works of Composition Department Chair Michael Hersch (BM '95, MM '97, Composition) will be presented by Spectrum NYC. Peabody faculty members soprano Ah Young Hong (BM '98, MM '01, Voice), saxophonist Gary Louie, and pianist Mr. Hersch will be featured performers. Over the past several years the presenting organization has become known for their very adventurous contemporary music programming.
The events were recommended this week by The New Yorker.
Saturday, September 10, 7:00 pm
Faculty artists Leon Fleisher and Katherine Jacobson, pianos, will perform with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Ken Lam (MM '07, Orchestral Conducting) conducting, for the opening to its 80th anniversary season "A Night to Remember Gala." Mr. Fleisher will play Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, and with his wife, Ms. Jacobson, will perform Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 7 in F major for two pianos.
Computer music composition master's student Tuo Wang's piece -
Disorderly for solo bass and electronics - will be featured at the 2016
International Computer Music Conference in Utrecht, The Netherlands, at its new concert venue, TivoliVredenburg. The conference is hosted by HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, HKU Music and Technology and the annual new music festival Gaudeamus Muziekweek.
Tuesday, September 20, 7:30 pm
Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín, a concert/drama created by Murry Sidlin
(BM '62, Music Education; MM '68, Instrumental Conducting) about performances of Verdi's
Requiem by Jewish prisoners at the Terezín concentration camp, will be performed by Orchester Wiener Akademie and Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno at Konzerthaus Vienna.
Friday, September 30 at 7:30 pm
John Wilson (
BM '10, MM '12, GPD '14, Piano) will be a featured soloist with the
New World Symphony. Mr. Wilson, a former student of Benjamin Pasternack and Marian Hahn, will perform Olivier Messiaen's
Oiseaux exotiques, with Michael Linville conducting. He recently performed the premiere of composer Timo Andres'
Tides and Currents for two pianos and percussion alongside the composer, and as keyboardist for the premiere of Michael Tilson Thomas'
Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind.
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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Yuriy Bekker (
GPD '06, Violin) was recently appointed the Charleston Symphony's principal Pops conductor. He has served as the symphony's concertmaster for the past 10 years and also serves as a faculty member at the College of Charleston School of the Arts. Three of his former violin students are now students at Peabody, all studying with Herbert Greenberg.
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Paolo Bortolameolli (
GPD '15, Conducting) has been named a Dudamel Conducting Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the 2016-17 season. He will work with Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, conduct Los Angeles Philharmonic youth concerts at Walt Disney Concert Hall, participate as a cover conductor, and serve as a mentor with programs such as Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA). In July 2016, Mr. Bortolameolli made his debut as an opera conductor leading Rossini's
Tancredi at Teatro Municipal de Santiago Opera in his native Chile.
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A new work by Frances Pollock (
MM '15, Voice) has been selected for the Washington National Opera's 2017 American Opera Initiative Festival, which takes place January 13-15, 2017, in the Kennedy Center Family Theater. Three new one-act operas, each inspired by the ideals of President Kennedy, will be presented as part of the Kennedy Center's celebration of the JFK centennial. Ms. Pollock's opera
What Gets Kept, with libretto by Vanessa Moody, explores medically assisted suicide as a family struggles with terminal illness.
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The
Austin Opera opens its 30th anniversary season on Saturday, September 17 with the one-night-only regional premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning creators Kevin Puts, a Peabody faculty member, and Mark Campbell's acclaimed adaptation of
The Manchurian Candidate. A
new CD of Mr. Puts' music performed by the Peabody Symphony Orchestra and conductor Marin Alsop, director of Peabody's graduate conducting program, entered the Billboard charts at number 3 for Traditional Classical Albums and at number 20 for overall Classical Albums, including crossover CDs.
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Last week, as part of
The Baltimore Sun's
Fall Arts Guide, reporters and critics picked artist diploma candidate Meng Su (
PC '09, GPD '11, MM '16, Guitar; GPD '15, Chamber Music), who studies with Manuel Barrueco, as one of "10 up-and-comers whose names you should get to know." She will perform on Friday, September 23 at New York's
Symphony Space, presented by the New York City Classical Guitar Society.
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RECENT RECORDINGS
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Yuriy Bekker (
GPD '06, Violin) released his first CD,
20th Century Duos, on Navona Records. The CD features works by American Jewish composers, Copland and Korngold.
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DMA piano student Marianna Prjevalskaya released an album of Rachmaninoff, her second solo album. The album features Variations on Themes by Chopin and Corelli and was recorded at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
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Tonar Music released the first solo CD,
Meng, by artist diploma candidate Meng Su (
PC '09, GPD '11, MM '16, Guitar; GPD '15, Chamber Music). The CD includes two works by composer John Williams and works by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, J.S. Bach, Francisco Tárrega, and William Walton.
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