Introducing New Online Course: Playing Well
As Peabody continues to advance musician health and wellness on many fronts, this January sees the launch of Playing Well - Anatomy and Movement, a 14-week, 2-credit online course for musicians and music teachers. Offered at the graduate level, this course covers anatomy and movement concepts as applied to music making, with particular attention to those structures at risk for repetitive trauma. It is the first of four courses in the Playing Well certificate series, which combines the scientific resources of Johns Hopkins Medicine with the performance expertise of the Peabody Institute to help musicians understand and work to prevent playing-related injury. For more information and to register for the course, visit
Peabody Online.
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FROM THE DEAN
One critical measurement of our position as an educational institution in the music world is of course found in the interest that students express in coming to study at Peabody. And December 1 is always an important moment as it marks the deadline for applications to Peabody for the next academic year. Having just passed that deadline, it is good to be able to report that, as of now, we have 1,917 total submitted applications compared to 1,639 at this point last year, a 17 percent increase. This number includes applications for two exciting new programs in New Media and Dance. Submitted applications are up 11 percent even when excluding new programs.
Over the last several years, Peabody has implemented positive changes in our enrollment and recruitment strategies. These changes - coupled with the remarkable strength of both long-time and new faculty members, and excitement about Peabody's new and unique Breakthrough Curriculum - is driving an increasing number of students to consider Peabody for their professional music studies. The next milestone in all of this will take place in February when we welcome these applicants to campus to audition for places in next year's class. That too is always an exhilarating time, and we look forward to it.
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ON STAGE / OFF CAMPUS
Thursday, December 7, 7:30 pm
Faculty artists William Sharp, baritone, and Alexander Shtarkman, piano, and Netanel Draiblate (
MM '07, GPD '09, Violin) will be featured in PostClassical Ensemble's upcoming concert,
Music in Wartime: A Pearl Harbor Day Commemoration, at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. The program will feature works by Hanns Eisler, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Arnold Schoenberg.
December 7-10; December 15-16
The Melodica Men - Joe Buono (
BM '13, MM '15, Bass Trombone) and Tristan Lane Clarke (
'12, Trumpet) - will be featured soloists in two holiday orchestra concerts. They will perform on the
Jacksonville Symphony's "Holiday Pops" concert series December 7-10. The duo will also be soloists on the
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's "A Very Merry Holiday POPS!" on December 15 and 16. They will play their own a cappella arrangement of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and their viral hit "Nutcracker Mini Suite," along with "Sleigh Ride" and "Winter Wonderland" with full orchestra.
Saturday, December 9, Sunday, December 10, 1:00 pm, 3:00 pm
Elaine Lachica (
BM '97, Voice) will be featured in the Waverly Consort's presentation of The Christmas Story at The Fuentidueña Chapel at
The Met Cloisters in New York. The Baltimore Consort - featuring Mary Anne Ballard, faculty artist Mark Cudek (
MM '82, Lute), Ronn McFarlane (
'79, Guitar), and Mindy Rosenfeld (
BM '80, Flute) - performed on the series earlier this month.
Saturday, December 16, 2:00 pm
Peabody students and alumni will perform in the debut performance of Ensemble 4-33 at
An Die Musik. Titled "Memory & Imagination," the concert will feature Master's candidate Ledah Finck (
BM '16, Violin) and will be led by Rebecca Smithorn (
'16, Conducting). Works of Earle Brown, Joanna Bailie, Bill Drummond, Pauline Oliveros, and John Cage will be performed, and the audience will be encouraged to participate.
Sunday, December 24, 7:00 pm; Thursday, December 28, 8:00 pm
Preparatory student Connor Chaikowsky, violin, has been selected to participate in the 2017 New York String Orchestra Seminar, conducted by Jaime Laredo. The orchestra will perform two concerts in Carnegie Hall and participants receive chamber music coachings from members of the world's top ensembles. Chaikowsky is a student of Andréa Picard Boecker and a member of the Pre-Conservatory Violin Program and the Peabody Youth Orchestra.
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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Josh Armenta (MM '14 Composition, MM '15 Computer Music) gave a lecture, "Activating a Physical Space through Sound," in October at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in Karachi, Sindh Province, Pakistan. Armenta collaborates with MICA alumnus Omer Wasim, a sculptor based in Karachi, and went to Pakistan to attend the first Karachi Biennale and to conduct field research for a planned interdisciplinary work featuring both artists. This work is being created in anticipation of Peabody Computer Music's 50th anniversary, which will occur in the 2019-20 school year.
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Rachel Blaustein (
MM '15, Voice) was recently named a winner the Wisconsin District Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Blaustein is in residence with the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee, singing the roles of Sylviane in
Merry Widow, Second Woman in
Dido & Aeneas, Shepherdess in
Venus and Adonis, and Papagena in
The Magic Flute. Last spring, she sang in Fort Worth Opera's Frontier's Showcase which aims to showcase new opera through selected excerpts sung by professional singers.
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Jeremy Lamb (
BM '03, Cello) was selected to become a member of the Charlotte Symphony in the cello section. There, he joins Sarah Markle (
BM '10, Cello), and together they make up a third of the cello section. Both were students of Alan Stepansky.
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Dontae Winslow (
BM '97, MM '99, Trumpet) composed the music for HBO's documentary
Baltimore Rising. He and his wife, Mashica, worked together to create the soundtrack. The film follows activists, police officers, and community leaders who struggle to hold Baltimore together in the aftermath of Freddie Gray's death. It runs this month on HBO.
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DMA student Xiaohui Yang, piano, tied for first place in the Naumburg International Piano Competition on November 10 in New York City. The competition is open to pianists between 17 and 32 years old. Winners of the competition receive $15,000, two fully subsidized concerts, and a commissioned work. The competition rotates each year between piano, violin, and voice.
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RECENT RECORDINGS
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Rosemary Tuck (
MM '86, Piano) has released a world premiere recording of Czerny's first concerto in D minor with the English Chamber Orchestra and conductor Richard Bonynge. Also on the recording are his
Introduzione e Rondo Brillant, Op. 233, and Introduction, Variations and Rondo on Weber's Hunting Chorus from the opera
Euryanthe, Op. 60.
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Patricia Goodson (
MM '80, Piano) is featured on a new CD,
Macbeth, which features music by Scottish-Czech composer Geraldine Mucha. Goodson performs Mucha's solo Sixteen Variations on an Old Scottish Song, and her Piano Concerto with the Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra, Andreas Sebastian-Weiser, conductor.
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Jenny Lin (
KSAS BA '94, German; AD '98, Piano) has released a new recording of Philip Glass' Complete Etudes for Solo Piano on the Steinway and Sons Label. This recording comes after the premiere of the pieces in New York, which featured a selection of nine different pianists, including Lin, each playing four of the 20 etudes. Lin has recorded all 20 on this two-disc release.
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