Responding to research showing that upwards of 80 percent of working musicians experience playing-related pain or discomfort, the Peabody Institute has launched a groundbreaking series of online, non-credit courses to help musicians avoid injury and maintain health for peak performance. Geared towards instrumental musicians and music educators, Playing Well provides practical, scientifically grounded approaches and principles, with expert perspectives from the Peabody Institute and Johns Hopkins Medicine. The curriculum covers anatomy and movement, playing-related medical conditions and treatments, injury prevention and retraining strategies, and mental fitness. Its self-paced, on-demand format is designed to meet the needs of both working and aspiring professional musicians as well as their teachers and ensemble leaders. The first course – Starting Your Anatomy and Movement Study – is available now, with much more coming soon.

From the Dean

A few short weeks ago the wonderful announcement came from JHU President Ronald J. Daniels following Michael Bloomberg’s editorial in The New York Times announcing his extraordinary gift of $1.8 billion to Johns Hopkins University to fund undergraduate scholarships. As a direct result of this remarkable and indeed historic gift, Peabody is receiving a $50 million contribution to its endowment. The expressed purpose of the gift is to increase access and affordability to undergraduate education for students in the United States. As is the case with competitive music schools, scholarships are largely merit based at Peabody. While this gift will not replace the awarding of merit scholarships for students, it will provide new dollars to directly target eligible undergraduate students in order to provide greater access and affordability for qualified students with demonstrated need, beginning with the fall 2019 admission cycle. Even as we continue finalizing details of how to most effectively leverage this wonderful gift, we know that this will make it possible for Peabody to improve affordability for talented students from around the country, as we continue to build excellence in the Conservatory. We are indeed so grateful for this opportunity and for the strong commitment that President Ron Daniels and Provost Sunil Kumar have demonstrated to Peabody in allowing us to join in this remarkable legacy.

 

Fred Bronstein, Dean

On Stage/Off Campus

Now through December 23

Mark G. Meadows ( BM '11, GPD '13, Jazz Piano; KSAS BA '11, Psychology) returns to the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Vir., for “Motown: The Reprise,” a cabaret of Motown songs with Jade Jones and Ines Nassara. Building off the sold-out “Motown: Hitsville U.S.A.,” the cabaret features songs from Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, the Jackson 5 and more.

Saturday, December 15, 8:00 pm 

Jacomo Bairos ( GPD '11, Conducting) will conduct Nu Deco Ensemble at the first concert of their 2018-19 residency at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. The program will celebrate the centennial of composer Leonard Bernstein with West Side Story's “Symphonic Dances,” a new suite honoring Aretha Franklin, and special collaborations with Macy Gray, BJ The Chicago Kid, and the Miami Mass Choir.

Monday, December 17, 8:00 pm; Wednesday, December 19, 7:30 pm

Countertenor Daniel Moody ( BM '14, Voice) will make his Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Oratorio Society of New York. His schedule continues into 2019 with Moody performing Chichester Psalms with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and a concert of arias and duets with Anne Sofie von Otter and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.

Tuesday, December 18, 7:30 pm 

Frances Borowsky ( MM '13, Cello) and Everett Suttle ( BM ’83, Voice) will perform in a concert titled “Antonín Dvořák: America is an Idea, Not a Place” at Carnegie Hall. The concert will celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Carnegie Hall premiere of several works by Dvořák and will also feature works by Beethoven, Brahms, Burleigh, and Hayes.

Monday, December 24, 7:00 pm; Friday, December 28, 8:00 pm

Peabody graduate student Josef Fischer, viola, will be a part of the New York String Orchestra Seminar, a 10-day orchestral seminar presented by the Mannes School of Music. At the seminar, participants will prepare for two concerts at Carnegie Hall with Jaime Laredo conducting. On December 24, Yefim Bronfman, piano, will perform Beethoven’s piano concerto with the orchestra, and Joshua Bell will perform Brahms’ Violin Concerto with them on December 28.

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