Upcoming Live Stream Events
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Andrew W. Mellon Chair in Piano Leon Fleisher will guest conduct the Peabody Chamber Orchestra on Wednesday, January 30, at 7:30 pm, and the event will be live streamed. The all-Mozart performance includes Concerto for Two Pianos No. 10 with current and former students of Fleisher, Tian Lu (
MM ‘13, Piano) and Yury Shadrin (
'12, Piano). On Saturday, February 16, at 7:30 pm, the Peabody Symphony Orchestra concert, led by Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Artistic Director of Ensembles Joseph Young, will also be streamed. Pianist Yunling Zhang, the winner of the Harrison L. Winter Piano Competition, will perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, and the orchestra will present a new version of Aaron Copland’s
Billy The Kid: Ballet. Watch these events live at
ustream.tv.
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The new year is a time of hope and rejuvenation, and a time to take stock. We’ll have many opportunities to do that as we go forward, but today, I want to take a different tack. Our staff at the Peabody Institute are a dedicated and impressive group of professionals. We often celebrate our faculty and students, and our staff often are heroes in the background, making things happen for our faculty, helping make our students’ lives better, and so much more. Earlier this month, I sadly had to inform the Peabody community of the passing of a dear colleague and friend, Rebecca Polgar, who passed away very unexpectedly over the holiday break. Rebecca was an alumna of Peabody (
GPD ’95, MM ’97, Trumpet) and a member of the Peabody staff since 1997, serving as director of financial aid since 2010. Her warm and cheerful nature will be dearly missed by us all, most especially our students who she always tirelessly tried to help. I know I speak for all of us when we send our condolences to family and friends of Rebecca, and I know we’ll continue to think about her goodness and good works as we go about our lives in the weeks and months ahead.
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Sunday, January 20, 4:00 pm
The Aspen String Trio – faculty artist Victoria Chiang, viola; Michael Mermagen (
BM ’84, Cello); and David Perry, violin – will present a concert as a part of the
Artist Series of Tallahassee in Opperman Music Hall.
Tuesday, Jan. 22; Thursday, Jan. 24; Saturday, Jan. 26, 7:30 pm
Peyson Moss (
MM '16, Ensemble Arts: Vocal Accompanying) will be featured in several concerts as part of Renee Fleming's inaugural
SongStudio program at Carnegie Hall. SongStudio brings leading musicians and other performing artists together to mentor emerging singers and collaborative pianists.
Wednesday, January 23, 7:30 pm
Faculty artist Benjamin Pasternack, piano, and violinist Netanel Draiblate (
MM ‘07, GPD ‘09, Violin) will perform in “Cultural Fusion: The Gamelan Experience,” a unique mega-event which includes both Javanese and Balinese gamelan with dancers, archival films, and much more. The performance – presented by the
PostClassical Ensemble in the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. – will feature the music of Debussy, Colin McPhee, Ravel, Poulenc, Messiaen, Bill Alves, and Lou Harrison.
Thursday, January 24, 7:30 pm
Yael Weiss (
BM ’94, Piano) will debut her new commissioning project, “32 Bright Clouds: Beethoven Conversations Around the World,” which pairs the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas with 32 newly-commissioned short piano compositions from 32 composers from different countries around the globe. Weiss will present the first performance and feature five world premiere commissions at the
Strathmore Mansion.
Friday, January 25, 9:00 pm
Faculty artist Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano, will be featured in a presentation of
Doubt at the Minnesota Opera on PBS’
Great Performances. The 2013 production is an adaptation of John Patrick Shanley’s Tony-winning 2005 Broadway play and the 2008 Oscar-nominated film about suspicion that leads to a battle of wills at a Bronx Catholic school. Graves portrays the pivotal role of Mrs. Miller. Watch a trailer for the opera
here. Check your local listings for details.
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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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Composition Department Chair Michael Hersch (
BM ’95, MM ’97, Composition) has been selected as a Gilman Scholar, a distinction which celebrates select Johns Hopkins faculty who embody the highest standards of scholarship and research across the university. Hersch and four other Johns Hopkins faculty members join 19 others, past and present, who have received this honor since 2013.
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Richard and Elizabeth Case Chair of Jazz Studies Sean Jones, trumpet, has been named president of the Jazz Education Network. The Jazz Education Network is dedicated to building the jazz arts community by advancing education, promoting performances, and developing audiences.
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Daniel Kassteen (
MM ‘99, Trumpet) joined the Sarasota Orchestra as co-principal trumpet. The 80-member orchestra performs more than 100 classical, pops, and family concerts each year and thrives as the oldest continuing orchestra in the state of Florida.
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Faculty artist Dan Trahey (
BM '00, Tuba, Music Education) has been in Chile this month leading composition workshops with the National Youth Orchestra of Chile and the Global Leaders Program. This is the second annual 10-day El Sistema Educators Bootcamp, and it is an intensive residency that supports the professional growth of teaching artists.
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Sidney Yin (
DMA ’12, Piano) has been appointed general manager of Mainly Mozart in San Diego, Calif. He will have a number of responsibilities in this role, including work with Music Director Michael Francis and Executive Director Nancy Laturno.
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A book by Patricia Melcher Bissell (
TC '59, BM '60, Piano; BM '64, Composition) was published by the National Association for Music Education through Rowman & Littlefield. The book is dedicated to the hands-on understanding of keyboard musicianship.
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Alumni Celebration Weekend
Save the Dates!
April 26 – 28, 2019
Honored Classes:
50th Reunion, 1968 & 1969
40th Reunion, 1978 & 1979
25th Reunion, 1993 & 1994
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