Midori Appointed Distinguished Visiting Artist
Violinist Midori has been appointed a distinguished visiting artist at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University for the 2016-17 season. Recognized worldwide as one of the legendary violinists of our times, an extraordinary performer, a gifted educator, and an innovative community engagement activist, Midori will visit campus throughout the academic year to conduct master classes at both the Conservatory and the Preparatory and deliver interdisciplinary presentations to other Johns Hopkins academic divisions. "I can't think of an artist more accomplished, or better suited, to serve in this role and share with our campus community the important lessons of building a multi-faceted, holistic musical career, and who more clearly demonstrates what it means to be a citizen-artist in the 21st Century," says Fred Bronstein, dean of the Peabody Institute.
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FROM THE DEAN
The Peabody Institute experience includes providing our students with exposure to artists working at the highest level of the music world.
For example, this year Peabody students worked with Marin Alsop, now director of graduate conducting at Peabody, recording a disc for Naxos in the first of a number of planned recordings by the Peabody Symphony Orchestra. Our students also had the chance to work with guest conductors visiting the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, including Hannu Lintu and newly appointed BSO principal guest conductor, Markus Stenz.
In this regard, I am especially excited about next year, when Marin Alsop will conduct the PSO in a fall program, and Peabody will welcome Leonard Slatkin, music director of the Detroit Symphony, to conduct in the spring. In addition, plans are in the works for a second Naxos CD to be recorded during the 2016-17 academic year.
As noted above, we also recently announced that Midori will be a distinguished visiting artist at Peabody next year. She will share her unique insights about music, teaching, and the artist's role today, giving master classes in the Conservatory and Preparatory, as well as a number of interdisciplinary programs across other schools at the university.
As you can see, there is much to be excited about as we look forward to September.
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ON STAGE / OFF CAMPUS
Thursday, April 14; Friday, April 15, Saturday, April 16, 8:00 pm
The world premiere of faculty composer Kevin Puts'
The City will take place this weekend at the
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. The work is a BSO co-commission chosen as a short celebratory work to be presented during the centennial season. Thursday's performance will take place at the Music Center at Strathmore in Bethesda; Friday's takes place at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall; and Saturday's will take place at New York's Carnegie Hall. Mr. Puts won a Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award for this work, a multimedia project which celebrates the vibrancy of cities and Baltimore in particular.
Sunday, April 17, 3:00 pm
Monday, April 18, 8:00 pm
Faculty artist Zane Forshee (MM '01, GPD '03, DMA '11, Guitar) will kick off his Laptop tour, broadcasting short concerts from anywhere and everywhere. In this first concert of the tour, he will perform three pieces inspired by works of art: Soe-pa by Ingram Marshall, my heart comes undone by faculty composer Judah Adashi (MM '02, DMA '11, Composition), and My Name is Red by Ronald Pearl (MM '85, Guitar) The performance will take place at HBGMakespace in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and live streamed.
Friday and Saturday, April 22-23, 7:00 pm
David Teie (
BM '77, MM '78, Cello) will perform on Damian Woetzel's
DEMO series at the Kennedy Center, bringing together an adventurous cast of musicians and dancers to explore and share the worlds they came from. This performance also features dancers Lil Buck and Ron "Prime Tyme" Myles, as well as Sandeep Das, tabla; Johnny Gandelsman, violin; Cristina Pato, gaita; Wu Tong, sheng; and singer, song-writer, and multi-instrumentalist Kate Davis.
Sunday, April 24, 2:00 pm
Preparatory students Grace Carney, violin, and Luka Stefanovic, cello, have been selected as participants in the Reinecke Youth Chamber Music Competition and Fellowship Program by the Chamber Music Society of Maryland. The fellows are mentored by the Monument Piano Trio - Dariusz Skoraczewski (BM '94, GPD '96, Cello), Michael Sheppard (BM '98, MM '01, GPD '03, Piano) and Kaya Bryla, (GPD '05, AD '11, Violin; GPD '08, Chamber Music) - and featured in this concert presented by Music in the Great Hall.
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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Baritone Michael Maliakel (
'13, Voice) won first prize, the Courtney Knight Gaines Foundation Gold Medal, in the American Traditions Vocal Competition in Savannah, Georgia, in February. The competition was established to provide a forum for showcasing tomorrow's vocal talents and superstars and to celebrate the diverse repertoire of standard, classic American music. Mr. Maliakel studied with Stanley Cornett.
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Sarah Nalty, a member of the Peabody Children's Chorus since 2009, placed first in her vocal category at the National Association of Teachers of Singing Regional Competition in Charleston, South Carolina. Chloe Noh, also a member of the Peabody Children's Chorus since 2010, placed second in her category in the NATS State Competition in Baltimore.
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Jake Runestad (
MM '11, Composition) won the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation's Morton Gould Young Composer Award, which encourages talented young creators of concert music. Mr. Runestad, selected from over 700 applicants, received high praise from the judges for his extended choral/orchestral work
Dreams of the Fallen. The composers will be recognized at the national ASCAP Concert Music Awards event in September.
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Composition faculty member
Sean Shepherd was awarded an Arts and Letters Award in Music, with a prize of $10,000 and an additional $10,000 toward the recording of one work. Four awards are given annually to composers; faculty composer Kevin Puts received the award last year. Thomas Kotcheff (
BM '10, Composition, Piano) and Scott Lee (
MM '13, Composition) were awarded Charles Ives Scholarships of $7,500 each by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Jordan Thomas (
BM '13, MM '15, Harp) won the position of regular harpist with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago for the 2016-17 season. The Civic Orchestra is the only training orchestra of its kind affiliated with a major American orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
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RECENT RECORDINGS
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Amy Domingues (MM '12, Viola da Gamba) and electronic musician Dennis Kane's new music collaboration combines viola da gamba, keyboard, guitar, and electronics in their debut recording, Gut+Voltage: Viola da Gamba and Electronics in Synthesis. Ms. Domingues also released the CD Dowland in Darkness.
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Tenor Duane A. Moody (BM '94, Vocal Performance, GPD '00, Opera) released his first solo recording project of art songs, arias, and spirituals with pianist R. Timothy McReynolds, titled Sur Mon Voyage...
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Daniel Schlosberg (
BM '00, MM '01, Piano) released this CD of French Baroque keyboard music featuring works by Jean Henri d'Anglebert, Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, François Couperin, Marin Marais, and Johann Sebastian Bach.
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