Peabody orchestras will be showcased in two upcoming live streamed events. The first is the Peabody Symphony Orchestra's performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 on Friday, January 30. The following Friday, February 5, faculty artist Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano, will join the Peabody Concert Orchestra and guest artist Richard Troxell, tenor, in performing selections from Georges Bizet's Carmen. Also on the program will be Zhou Long's The Rhyme of Taigu and George Gershwin's An American in Paris. Both concerts will be conducted by Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Director of Orchestral Activities Hajime Teri Murai. The live stream events begin at 8:00 pm EST and can be viewed live on Johns Hopkins Ustream channel.
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FROM THE DEAN
Two events, thousands of miles apart, offer prime examples of a vision of the future for music, and the importance of Peabody to that vision.
The first is the inaugural Young Artist Development Series, a partnership between Peabody and El Paso Pro-Musica. Last year, Peabody alumnus Zuill Bailey approached Peabody about the idea of a residency training program for students at his festival in El Paso, Texas. Knowing of Peabody's growing commitment to foster these kinds of skills in our students and wanting to give back to his alma mater, Zuill proposed this residency, which took place this past November. Violinist Nikita Borisevich and pianist Maggie Loukachkina were selected as inaugural participants. Over the course of their week-long residency, Nikita and Maggie gave performances in many different settings, spoke with audiences, engaged with donors, did television interviews, and generally worked as citizen-artists. It was for them a life-changing experience.
The other is Peabody's hosting of New Music Gathering 2016. More than 300 composers and performers from across the country gathered this past week in Baltimore to perform, conduct workshops and lectures, all the while sharing exciting new works with each other and Baltimore audiences. In addition to the breadth of talent on display, the energy and pure fun emanating from this year's NMG was striking. NMG 2016 places Peabody at the center of new music and primes the pump for Peabody's role as a center for 21st century arts. Taken together, the New Music Gathering and the Young Artist Development Series proclaim that Peabody will be a place that trains artists not just as traditional practitioners, but as citizen-artists committed to embracing a wide spectrum of music, with the skills to communicate their art in a compelling, vibrant way.
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ON STAGE / OFF CAMPUS
Thursday, January 14, 7:30 pm
Sarah Chan
(MM '96, Piano) will be presenting a solo piano recital at
St. James's Piccadilly in London. A recent interview on the artist's thoughts, background, research, and artistic vision was conducted by
Fueilletonscout, a Berlin-based arts and culture organization.
Sunday, January 17, 7:30 pm
MM cello student Jacques-Pierre Malan (GPD '12, Cello; GPD '13, Chamber Music) is a finalist in the Getting to Carnegie competition. The competition was started by Peabody alumnus Julian Gargiulo (MM '97, Piano) and is described as "the Hunger Games of Classical Music." The finalists will each perform a movement of Gargiulo's Cello and Piano Sonata, and the audience will choose the winner. The recital will take place at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall in New York.
Thursday, January 21 through
Saturday, January 23
Faculty artist Marina Piccinini, flute, will appear with world-renowned conductor Leonard Slatkin and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to give the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winner Aaron Jay Kernis' Flute Concerto. The concerto, an approximately 25-minute, four movement piece, is the latest work written specifically for the internationally acclaimed artist.
Friday,
January 22,
7:00 pm, 9:30 pm
Faculty artist Michael Formanek's Ensemble Kolossus will perform two concerts at Baltimore's Creative Alliance to mark the release of The Distance, the group's first release on ECM Records. The CD features original compositions by Mr. Formanek. They will also perform in New York at the 2016 Winter Jazzfest on Saturday, January 16.
Saturday, January 23, 7:00 pm
The Peabody Consort, founded by faculty artist Mark Cudek, will present a candlelight concert titled Music of Three Faiths at St. Louis Church in Clarksville, Maryland.
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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Jazz percussion faculty artist Nasar Abadey was named Artist of the Year, Best Drummer, and Best Small Ensemble for Supernova in the Washington City Paper's "The Jazzies: D.C.'s Best Jazz in 2015." Michael J. West writes that a November appearance at Bohemian Caverns by Mr. Abadey, "a civic treasure," "was the most transcendent set of live music that this writer saw this year in D.C."
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Mark Meadows
Mark Meadows (GPD '13, Jazz Piano; JHU BA '11, Psychology) is in the midst of a five-week residency performing with Jazz at Lincoln Center Doha in Qatar. He was individually selected as well as part of vocalist Akua Allrich's group the Tribe. The shows will be available to live stream at livestream.com/jazz.
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Musicology faculty member Joshua Walden's new book, The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music, was recently published by Cambridge University Press. The text combines approaches to classical, religious, folk, and popular music in a diverse range of historical, political, and cultural contexts, and offers an international approach to the subject with a variety of perspectives from leading authors in the U.S., Europe, and Israel.
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Moritz Winkleman (MM '11, GPD '13, Piano) received third prize in the International Telekom Beethoven Competition Bonn, an international competition held in Bonn, Germany. Mr. Winkleman studied under Leon Fleisher and is a founding member of The Sheridan Piano Trio.
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RECENT RECORDINGS
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Vice City Brass, a quintet featuring master's trumpet student David Deshler, released their first CD
I'm Dreaming of a Vice Christmas, featuring classical and crossover versions of holiday favorites. They are the ensemble-in-residence at the Fredericksburg Brass Institute, a summer festival that Mr. Deshler co-founded with Austin Boyer
(BM '13, Trumpet). This summer the FBI will expand to three locations nationwide: Fredericksburg, Va.; Northampton, Mass.; and the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
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