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Peabody Symphony Releases First Major Label CD

The music of Pulitzer-Prize winning composer and Peabody Conservatory faculty artist Kevin Puts is featured on a new recording by the Peabody Symphony Orchestra and conductor Marin Alsop, acclaimed music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and director of Peabody's graduate conducting program, to be released today. The disc includes Puts' Symphony No. 2 ("Island of Innocence") and his Flute Concerto, featuring the London Symphony Orchestra's celebrated principal flutist Adam Walker. This marks the first major-label release for the Peabody Symphony Orchestra.

FROM THE DEAN

The Peabody Institute has just announced the line-up for the 2016-17 Dean's Symposium Series. I'm excited to build on the success of last year's programs in this second year as we welcome industry thought leaders Aaron Dworkin, founder of The Sphinx Organization and dean of the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater and Dance; Blair Tindall, author of Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music, the book which forms the basis for Amazon Studio's show now in its third season; Alex Ross, award-winning writer and chief music critic for The New Yorker; and Peter Sellars, renowned opera and theater director known for his innovative productions.

The Dean's Symposium Series provides a platform for conversation about the future of music and the issues facing professional musicians today. I'm confident that these four guests are among the most innovative, forward-thinking artists and leaders out there. As practitioners and writers, to a person, they are clear-eyed and insightful about the challenges facing our industry and bold in their work to advance music. I'm very much looking forward to engaging our community in these important conversations. I invite you to join us in person or watch online. 

You can find out more by going to the press release




Fred Bronstein, Dean
ON STAGE / OFF CAMPUS

Saturday, August 13, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm    

Tomorrow, the Mt. Vernon Peabody campus will be open to the general public for its annual Piano Sale. New Yamaha pianos have been on loan to Peabody as part of a special arrangement with the Yamaha Corporation and with support from Menchey Music in Baltimore. These fine instruments have been meticulously maintained and are for sale at exceptional prices.
 

Now through Sunday, August 14

Diana Cantrelle (MM '12, Voice, Pedagogy) is singing the role of Zia Principessa and Mother Abbess in Puccini's Suor Angelica with the Capital Opera in Albany, N.Y. Miss Cantrelle, contralto, studied voice with William Sharp and Francois Loup. Faculty artist Ah Young Hong is one of her current coaches.
 

Tuesday, August 16, 7:30 pm; Thursday, August 18, 7:30 pm       

Faculty artist Amit Peled will be a featured soloist at the Sunriver Music Festival in Oregon. He will perform a recital with Stefan Petrov ( BM '06, MM '08, DMA '16 Piano; MM '16, Music Theory Pedagogy) on Tuesday and will solo with the Sunriver Music Festival Orchestra in the festival's closing concert on Thursday.   


Now through September 11

Mark Meadows ( GPD '13, Jazz Piano; KSAS BA '11, Psychology) is performing in the lead role of Jelly Roll Morton in Jelly's Last Jam at Signature Theater in Arlington, Va. Mr. Meadows' foray into the world of theater was profiled in a story in   The Washington Post.  
   

Tuesday, August 23, at 6:00 pm    

Zuill Bailey ( BM '94, Cello), who received the Peabody Distinguished Alumni Award in 2014, will perform an All Russian Evening on Tuesday, August 23, at 6:00 pm with Natasha Paremski, piano, at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Ill. The program includes works by Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff.

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.    
   
ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENTS


Frank Hammarin      
Frank Hammarin ( MM '15, French Horn) was awarded the position of Tutti Horn with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra in May. He will begin at the start of the 2016-17 season in Reykjavik, Iceland. Mr. Hammarin studied with Denise Tryon

Amy Beth Kirsten      
Composition faculty member Amy Beth Kirsten ( DMA '10, Composition) will be on faculty at the 2016 highSCORE Festival - which takes place in Pavia, Italy, from August 1 to 13 - with several other composers including former composition faculty member Christopher Theofanidis.

Justine Koontz      
Justine Koontz, who studied composition at the Preparatory with Judah Adashi, is a recipient of the Fulbright award. Ms. Koontz will be living in Riga, Latvia, to determine how "the country that sings" maintains and burnishes that reputation. This year she received a Master in Music from Butler University.

Daniel Moody      
Countertenor Daniel Moody ( BM '14, Voice) performed the American premiere of Dream of the Song by George Benjamin with the Lorelei Ensemble and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, conducted by Stefan Asbury, at the final concert of the Festival of Contemporary Music on July 25. For the work, Mr. Moody sang 1,000-year-old Hebrew poetry by Solomon Ibn Gabirol and Samuel HaNagid in English.  

Gemma New      
Gemma New ( MM '11, Conducting) has been appointed the resident conductor of the St. Louis Symphony, starting with the 2016-17 season. The New Zealand-born conductor currently is music director for the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra in Ontario, Canada, as well as associate conductor for the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra through the end of this season, and founder and director of the Lunar Ensemble, a contemporary music collective in Baltimore.

RECENT RECORDINGS


Nicholas Will ( MM '11, Organ) recently released his debut recording, Laudato Si: In the Spirit of St. Francis of Assisi. The recording is comprised of settings of texts by or attributed to St. Francis and his disciples. 

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