On Monday, November 18, the new Peabody career services office LAUNCHPad opened its doors in a renovated space near Unger Lounge. Peabody
LAUNCHPad, directed by Zane Forshee (
MM ’01, GPD ’03, DMA ’11, Guitar, pictured above, far right), helps students and recent alumni forge successful careers and provides comprehensive services in support of their goals. In his remarks at the opening, Dean Fred Bronstein (
above, second from left) noted that the new, collaborative office space is a physical manifestation of the Breakthrough Curriculum’s philosophy of integrating key career skills directly into student learning. University Vice Provost for Integrated Learning and Life Design Farouk Dey (
above, far left) and Peabody Associate Dean for Innovation, Interdisciplinary Partnership and Community Initiatives Sarah Hoover (
DMA ’08, Voice, above, second from right) also spoke at the event.
|
|
Leading an arts institution is one of the most challenging and rewarding things one can do. I know this having now been engaged in this work with various major arts organizations for 25 years. So it is of particular interest to me to have a chance to give our students a “bird’s eye” view of all the issues that we confront in leading arts institutions in today’s complex world. In my arts leadership seminar this fall, 12 undergraduate and graduate students and I have taken this journey together through discussions around mission, vision, and values; programming, organizational development, board governance, community engagement, revenue development, financial management, and more. I am encouraged by the way some of our students are thinking about these important issues, which they will very likely confront in different forms in their professional lives, wherever they land. A highlight of the class for me is their capstone projects where teams develop from scratch a non-profit arts institution and, in class presentations and written formats, tell the story of these institutions bringing to bear all the critical aspects of what they have learned. Certainly, eye opening for all!
|
|
Now through December 7
Christopher Franklin (
DMA ’99, Conducting) is conducting the San Francisco Opera’s production of
Hansel and Gretel. He recently completed a run of performances of
La Traviata at Minnesota Opera,
Turandot at San Francisco Opera, and
Peter Grimes at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia.
Thursday, November 21, 7:00 pm; Saturday, November 23, 8:00 pm
Composition Professor Kevin Puts’ 50-minute multimedia piece about Georgia O’Keeffe will be performed by the National Symphony Orchestra at the
Kennedy Center. The piece,
The Brightness of Light, was written for and will be performed by Renée Fleming, Rod Gilfry, and orchestra.
Wednesday, December 4, 12:30 pm
Musical director, keyboardist, synth programmer, and orchestrator David Rosenthal will join Peabody Dean Fred Bronstein for a free Dean's Symposium. Rosenthal is the current music director and keyboardist for Billy Joel and has also worked with Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Cyndi Lauper, Robert Palmer, and Steve Vai. The free discussion will be held in Cohen-Davison Family Theatre and will be
live streamed.
Thursday, December 5, 7:00 pm
Professor Herbert Greenberg, violin, will perform as concertmaster and solo violinist for "Hours of Freedom: The Story of the Terezín Composer" at the
Ahavath Achim Synagogue in Atlanta. The concert, created and conducted by Murry Sidlin (
BM ’62, Music Education; MM ’68, Instrumental Conducting), showcases music by 15 composers imprisoned in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) Concentration Camp during World War II.
Saturday, December 7, 7:30 pm
So Percussion, with Eric Beach (
BM ’04, GPD ’05, Percussion), will present a program called “A Percussion Century,” featuring works by Varèse, Cage, and Reich along with 21st-century music written expressly for this ensemble, at
Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall. David Degge (
MM ’13, Percussion) and several other percussionists will also join the group for this concert.
_______________________________
Peabody Notes highlights select off-campus or live-streamed performances featuring Peabody performers. For other events, please visit our Peabody Conservatory Facebook
page
. For the complete weekly list of concerts at Peabody, subscribe to
Events at Peabody
or visit
peabody.jhu.edu/events
.
|
|
|
|
Jacob Bowman (
BM ’18, Voice), a former student of Stanley Cornett, won first place in the Jerusalem Lyric Opera Studio’s International Opera Competition last summer. Bowman, who is a master's student at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, also received an Encouragement Award in the Metropolian Opera National Council Auditions for 2019-20 in the San Francisco district.
|
|
|
|
Wendy Johnston & Seo Yoon Kim
|
Master of Music students Wendy Johnston, organ, and Seo Yoon Kim, composition, were recently commissioned by the American Guild of Organists as part of the AGO Student Commissioning Project. Johnston and Kim are one of four composer and organist pairs awarded the $1,000 grant for the 2019-20 project.
|
|
|
|
Peng Huang & David Sexton
|
Master’s student Peng Huang, audio sciences, and senior David Sexton, recording arts, were two of the four finalists at the 2019 Audio Engineering Society's Student Recording Competition in the Traditional Acoustic Recording category. Sexton received the Silver Award, while Huang received an Honorable Mention. Huang was also awarded the Dolby Institute Scholarship from the Dolby Institute and the AES Educational Foundation.
|
|
|
|
Junior Ruben Portillo, guitar, represented the Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation as a Scholarship Ambassador at their Latin Person of the Year Gala in Las Vegas last week, as part of the festivities of the 20th anniversary of the Latin GRAMMY Awards.
|
|
|
|
James Sherry (
DMA ’02, Trumpet) won the inaugural Young Musicians Foundation (YMF) Fellow for Developing Leaders in Community Engagement and Civic Artistry. The fellowship includes a stipend, extensive professional development, and direct experience in working with the students and communities YMF serves.
|
|
Devin Gray (
BM ’06, Jazz Percussion) and his quartet Rataplan have released the new digital album
Algorhythmica with recordings of two of his new pieces, “Algorhythmica” and “Streaming Capital.”
|
|
Young-Ah Tak (
DMA ’13, Piano) released this Beethoven CD on the Steinway and Sons label. Her recording of “Appassionata” was also featured on Steinway's
Spirio Highlight in October.
|
|
Rosemary Tuck (
MM ’86, Piano) and the English Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Richard Bonynge, released a recording of Carl Czerny’s Second Grand Concerto in E-flat major and two other works.
|
|
FIGMENTS Vol. 2, a follow-up to the successful 2016 album
FIGMENTS, features new contemporary solo and chamber ensemble works with compositions by Peter Dayton (
MM ’16, Composition), Yuan-Chen Li, Hans Bakker, Navid Bargrizan, and Charles Corey.
|
|
Nu Deco Ensemble, created by Jacomo Bairos (
GPD ’11, Conducting), released its first single, Honeybody featuring
Kishi Bashi.
|
|
Leslie Neighbor Stroud (
BM ’84, Flute) and Matthew Odell (
MM ’03, GPD ’05, Piano) recently released this album of works by acclaimed composer, flutist, and teacher Gary Schocker on Centaur Records.
|
|
Szymanowski - The Wartime Triptychs is a new CD by Ronaldo Rolim (
BM ’10, MM ’11, AD ’14, Piano) on Odrarek Records. In a
trailer accompanying the album, Rolim follows in the composer's footsteps through Sicily.
|
|
Michael Sheppard (
BM ’98, MM ’00, GPD ’03, Piano) recently released a new album
Twelve Images: Prompted Improvisation for Piano on Bear Machine Records. This is the first collection of 80 different improvisations that Sheppard played over four days while working with Bear Machine.
|
|
Are you going on tour or performing at a major venue? Have you been invited as a guest lecturer at another major conservatory or university? Are you presenting your research at a national conference or collaborating with fellow Peabody faculty, students, or alumni on a major project? Has your student just won a major competition? We know you are doing amazing things in the world, let us help promote your work!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
