Peabody’s Associate Dean for Innovation, Interdisciplinary Partnerships, and Community Initiatives Sarah Hoover (DMA ’08, Voice) and fellow alumna Marianne LaCrosse (BM '92, Viola), general manager and education programs director at Music@Menlo, were selected by Musical America as two of the Top 30 of its Worldwide Professionals of the Year in its special publication. The magazine cites Hoover’s work to break new ground at the intersection of performing arts and medicine and her development of the pioneering Breakthrough Curriculum for her inclusion. LaCrosse was lauded for her work overseeing operations as well as managing both the Chamber Music Institute and the Arts Management Internship Program. Read the
issue for more details.
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More than anything, the greatest strength of the Peabody Institute is its world-renowned faculty – known for their teaching prowess, and at the same time doing enormously exciting things outside of academia. While there are simply too many to mention here, I do want to highlight several exciting faculty projects. Professor and Pulitzer-prize winning composer Kevin Puts is on sabbatical this year to finish a commission by the Metropolitan Opera which will star Renée Fleming. Also at the Met, Rosa Ponselle Distinguished Faculty Artist in Voice Denyce Graves performed in the 2019-20 opening production of
Porgy and Bess. Sean Jones, the Richard and Elizabeth Case Chair of Peabody’s Jazz Department, has co-founded the
Baltimore Jazz Collective - a consortium designed to create a dynamic cultural platform for regional artists of varied backgrounds, genres, and idioms to generate more opportunities to perform and create new works together. This project will be generously funded by the office of Johns Hopkins University President Ron Daniels. Faculty bassoonist Brad Balliett, who teaches in Peabody’s Breakthrough Curriculum, is working with
Musicambia at Sing Sing Prison to teach songwriting to inmates. This summer Peabody professor and renowned guitarist Manuel Barrueco was inducted into the
Guitar Foundation of America’s Hall of Fame, and as the year draws to a close, Pulitzer-prize winning composition professor Du Yun’s work,
Give Me Back My Fingerprints, was selected by
The New York Times as one of the best classical tracks of 2019. We are truly proud of the work our faculty does both each and every day on campus, and in the professional world.
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Now through December 15
Director of Peabody’s Graduate Conducting Program Marin Alsop will lead Brazil’s
São Paulo Symphony Orchestra with its Academic Choir in a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor, “Choral.” It is the launch of Alsop’s Global Ode to Joy Project, which will see her conducting 10 orchestras on six continents in performances of Beethoven’s Ninth including the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in June.
Now through December 21
The Melodica Men - Joe Buono (
BM ’13, MM ’15, Bass Trombone) and Tristan Lane Clarke (
’12, Trumpet) - will make their Philly POPS debut as part of “
A Philly POPS Christmas: Spectacular Sounds of the Season.” This month, they will perform nine performances in Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center.
Sunday, December 15 - Tuesday, December 24
Mezzo-soprano Kristina Lewis (
MM ’11, Voice) will be a featured soloist with
The Choral Arts Society of Washington in several performances titled “Selections for Songs of the Season: Christmas with Choral Arts.” These concerts will take place at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington, D.C.
Wednesday, December 18, Friday, December 20, 7:00 pm
Faculty artists Wendel Patrick, recording arts, and beatboxer Shodekeh, a BFA Dance musician, will be featured soloists and collaborators in Abakan and Kyzyl, Russia, to celebrate the
Alash Ensemble's 20th anniversary. Shodekeh performed with Alash, masters of Tuvan throat singing, on a Smithsonian Folkways Recoring,
Achai.
Tuesday, December 31, 4:30 pm
Conservatory faculty artist and Preparatory alumnus Warren Wolf, vibes, and his quartet will perform a tribute to Milt Jackson and Bobby Hutcherson at the
Umbria Winter Jazz Festival in Orvieto, Italy. The festival runs five days with 90 events, 30 bands, more than 150 musicians, and is a representation of Italian jazz of the highest level.
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Composition faculty artist Christopher Cerrone's work
The Pieces That Fall to Earth has been nominated for a 2020 Grammy Award in the Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance category performed by Christopher Rountree and Wild Up. The 62nd Grammy Awards ceremony will be held on January 26, 2020.
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Composition faculty artist Harold Meltzer has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Best Classical Compendium for his album
Songs and Structures.
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Matthew Stevens, jazz, was featured on Esperanza Spalding's Grammy nominated album
12 Little Spells. His work on the album includes composing, producing, playing guitar and bass, and singing.
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The Hope of Loving, the first full album dedicated to the music of composer Jake Runestad (
MM ’11, Composition; MM ’12, Music Theory Pedagogy), by the acclaimed professional choir Conspirare was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Choral Performance category. This is Conspirare's ninth Grammy nomination and the first nomination for an album of Runestad’s music.
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Andy Yoon, a student of Hyun-Sook Park and a member of the Preparatory Piano Academy received first place in his age category for the 2019 SONE International Young Soloists Competition. He was a featured performer at the Ensemble SONE Gala Concert in Carnegie Hall yesterday.
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Professor Manuel Barrueco (
BM ’75, Guitar) is featured on a new release of Villa-Lobos concertos and chamber works with Giancarlo Guerrero conducting the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Barrueco performs on Concerto for Guitar and Small Orchestra, which was Villa-Lobos last work for the instrument.
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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!
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