Scalia/Ginsburg
Highlights Two Peabody Faculty
An updated version of
Scalia/Ginsburg, an opera by Professional Studies faculty member and composer Derrick Wang, will be presented at the 2017
Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, N.Y., today, Friday, August 4, and Sunday, August 13. The opera features faculty artist William Burden, a Glimmerglass artist in residence, in the role of Justice Antonin Scalia.
Scalia/Ginsburg is about the relationship between Supreme Court Justices Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, played by Glimmerglass Young Artist Mary Beth Nelson. A special sold out Q&A session with Justice Ginsburg will follow the August 13 performance.
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FROM THE DEAN
In my July message, I wrote about the outstanding new faculty joining us in the 2017-18 academic year. We continue to be enormously excited about this. In addition to welcoming an unprecedented 17 new faculty members, I would note that the coming season is a year of firsts at Peabody. This year we launch the Breakthrough Curriculum focused on enhancing the skillset of every student that comes to Peabody around what it means to be a musician and citizen artist in the 21st century. In addition, it is the first year of a reimagined ensembles program that emphasizes a broad range of eclectic ensemble experiences for students, similar to what they will experience ultimately in the professional world. This is also the first year of our revamped faculty governance system, which after 18 months of development by our Governance Task Force received the overwhelming endorsement of our faculty last spring. And it's the first year of recruiting for a new dance program in the Conservatory under the leadership of Danah Bella, who arrives at Peabody with a strong record of professional dance and program building, as well as the first year of recruitment for the equally exciting Music for New Media program, both of which will have their first cohort of students in fall of 2018. It is also the year when we plan to open a clinic on the Peabody campus for the treatment of performance-related injuries as part of the Center for Music and Medicine initiative with John Hopkins Medicine. There is more, but that gives you an idea of what's coming to Peabody as we enter our 160th year, and 40th year as one of the professional schools of Johns Hopkins University.
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ON STAGE / OFF CAMPUS
Saturday, August 5, 8:00pm
Faculty artist Michael Kannen, cello, will play in the season finale concert for
Yellow Barn, an international center for chamber music
under the leadership of artistic director and Peabody faculty artist Seth Knopp. Kannen will perform Mozart's String Quartet in G major, K. 387 and has been a Yellow Barn musician since 2000.
Sunday, August 6, 3:00 pm
Faculty member Harlan D. Parker will be the guest conductor for the Maryland All-State Community Band, composed of musicians from all over the state, selected annually. This fifth annual concert will take place at Marriotts Ridge High School at 12100 Woodford Dr, Marriottsville, Md. Admission is free.
Friday, August 11 through Sunday, August 13
Peabody artists will be featured in the closing weekend of the Marlboro Chamber Music Festival in Marlboro, Vt. Faculty artist Marina Piccinini, flute, will perform in Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and Brett Dean's Winter Songs on Friday. Faculty artist Leon Fleisher will conduct the Marlboro Music Festival Orchestra on Friday's concert and another on Sunday. Alumna Kim Kashkashian, viola, will perform on Dean's Epitaphs on Saturday.
Thursday, August 17 through Sunday, August 20
As part of Peabody's new partnership with Steinway, the legendary craftsmanship of Steinway pianos will be available for purchase at dramatically reduced pricing at the annual piano sale on Peabody's main campus. Fill out the form to request information or make an appointment at Steinway Piano.
Tuesday, September 5, 8:00 pm
Faculty artist Yong Hi Moon and Young-Ah Alyssa Tak (DMA '13, Piano) will be playing a duo piano recital in IBK Hall at the Seoul Arts Center presented by Emyoun in Korea. They will perform works by Bach, Schubert, Dvorak, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky.
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ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENTS
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Chilean conductor Paolo Bortolameolli (GPD '15, Conducting) has been appointed the assistant conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the 2017-18 season. Bortolameolli, a former Dudamel Conducting Fellow, will serve as cover conductor to Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel and will be invited to guest conduct a number of performances throughout the season.
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Preparatory student Nate Delivuk and Preparatory Wind Band Conductor Karen Seward (
BM '01, Music Education; PC '01, Percussion) spent three weeks on a tour of Europe with American Music Abroad Gold Tour 2017. The young musicians traveled Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, and Germany.
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Gavin Farrell (
MM '99, Percussion; MM '01, Theory) has been appointed the executive director of the Powers Music School in Belmont, Mass. Farrell led the Peabody Preparatory from 2013 until this year, first as interim dean and then as executive director. He was part of the Peabody community as student, faculty member, and administrator for over 20 years.
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Mellasenah Morris (
BM '68, DMA '80, Piano; MM '71, Piano Pedagogy), retired dean of the Peabody Conservatory, has been appointed interim dean of the School of Music by DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind.
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Pamela Stein Lynde and Frances Pollock
Composers Pamela Stein Lynde (
MM '07, Voice) and Frances Pollock (
MM '15, Voice) have been selected for American Opera Projects' Composers & the Voice Fellowship. The Composers & the Voice Workshop Series is a competitive biannual fellowship offered to composers, librettists, and composer/librettist teams. The two-year fellowship includes a year of working with the company's resident ensemble of singers and artistic team followed by a year of continued promotion and development through AOP and its strategic partnerships.
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RECENT RECORDINGS
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Chad R. Bowles (
MM '05, GPD '07, Piano), chair of the Peabody Preparatory Piano Department, has released his fourth CD by JRI Recordings, featuring the Chopin and Liszt B minor sonatas.
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Faculty artist Katherine Jacobson Fleisher (
'81, Piano) recently released a solo CD on Steinway Classics.
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Alex (Tuo) Wang (MM '17, Computer Music) released his debut EP under the Beijing record label Dohits. In Black Dragon, he reflects on how artificial intelligence has invaded every aspect of human lives. He digs deep into the concept of sound design, turning high frequency noise into percussion, sampling from modular synthesizers to create brand-new sounds.
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RECENT BOOKS
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Musicology faculty member David Hildebrand and former Peabody archivist Elizabeth Schaaf ('77, Voice) have written this book which prominently features Peabody and is published by Johns Hopkins Press. It is full of musical examples, engravings, paintings, drawings, and historic photographs portraying the places around the state in which music flourished.
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Humanities faculty member Hollis Robbins released a new book which opened at number one in New Releases in Classic American Literature. It's the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: an extraordinary range of voices offering the expressions of African American women in print before, during, and after the Civil War.
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