Peabody Participates in Baltimore's Artscape, July 15-17
The Corvus Ensemble - Faye Chiao (MM '07, DMA '16, Composition), voice; Suzanne Saba Hughes, cello; Stefan Petrov (BM '06, MM '08, DMA '16 Piano; MM '16, Music Theory Pedagogy) - will perform at this year's Artscape today, Friday, July 15, at 4:00 pm. The program, on the festival theme of "Space," will feature songs from Ms. Chiao's To See the Stars, as well as works by Beethoven, Brahms, and Piazzolla. Ms. Chiao was awarded the Presser Music Award last year to write and produce To See the Stars in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope. Several other alumni will perform over the weekend at MICA or Corpus Christi Church, 110 West Lafayette Avenue. For a schedule of events, visit Peabody's Artscape page. Johns Hopkins is proud to sponsor the Station North stage at Artscape.
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FROM THE DEAN
Having just completed my second year as dean of the Peabody Institute, I continue to be as honored to serve in this role as I was on my very first day. It has been and continues to be my privilege and joy to work with an outstanding faculty, executive team, staff, and group of students during such an exciting time both at Peabody and for classical music writ large.
That question of classical music and its future place has made us think hard about the role that Peabody must play in shaping artists who will make, create, and inhabit that future. Eighteen months ago, we launched our Breakthrough Plan focused on building a future around Four Pillars: Excellence, Interdisciplinary Experiences, Innovation, and Community Connectivity. These pillars now come to life through a comprehensive and bold set of initiatives upon which we have embarked. The Breakthrough Plan is a set of ideas but it is much more. It is a living, breathing roadmap against which we can measure ourselves.
And much has happened in the eighteen months since we dedicated ourselves anew through the Breakthrough Plan to excellence in the context of what it means to be a citizen-artist in the 21st Century. I invite you to read about our journey, progress made, and what lies ahead.
I wish you a productive and pleasant summer.
Fred Bronstein, Dean
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ON STAGE / OFF CAMPUS
Friday, July 15, 11:00 am
Chad R. Bowles (MM '05, GPD '07, Piano), chair of the Preparatory's Piano Department, will make his second appearance at the Newport Music Festival
in Rhode Island, playing both the entire first book of Debussy Preludes and the Liszt Sonata in B minor.
Director of the Graduate Conducting Program Marin Alsop will lead Chicago's Grant Park Music Festival's week-long celebration of the MacArthur Foundation's Fellowship Program ("genius grants"), showcasing programming specially curated by Maestra Alsop for festival audiences. On Wednesday, July 20, she will conduct the Grant Park Orchestra with cellist Alisa Weilerstein in Azul composed by Osvaldo Golijov and the multimedia work LIFE: A Journey Through Time, with imagery by acclaimed wildlife photographer Frans Lanting set to music by composer Philip Glass. On July 22 and 23, Maestra Alsop and jazz violinist Regina Carter explore immigration and assimilation through music by Duke Ellington, on a program that is anchored by Dvořák's New World Symphony.
Friday, July 22, at 7:30 pm
Meng Su (PC '09, GPD '11, Guitar; GPD '15, Chamber Music) will be the featured soloist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Ms. Su, a former student of Manuel Barrueco, will perform the Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquin Rodrigo with Nicholas Hersh conducting.
Saturday, July 23, 2:00 pm and July 30, 3:00 pm; Sunday, July 31, 2:30 pm
Peabody's Bassoon Week and Bass Works camps will take place the last week of July. Led by Peabody faculty artist Phillip Kolker, the faculty and staff of Bassoon Week - Jennifer Nicole Campbell (
BM '14, MM '15, Piano), Rachel Celentano (
BM '16, Bassoon, Music Education), Dillon Meacham (
BM '14, Bassoon), Lynn Moncilovich (
GPD '11, Bassoon), and Robert Sirois (
BM '12, Bassoon, Music Education) - will perform in a concert on Saturday, July 23, at 2:00 pm, in Cohen-Davison Family Theatre. Program participants will present a closing concert on Saturday, July 30, at 3:00 pm, in Leith Symington Griswold Hall. A closing concert with participants of the Bass Works program will take place on Sunday, July 31, at 2:30 pm, at Marriotts Ridge High School, 12100 Woodford Drive, Marriottsville, Md. All concerts are free and open to the public.
Tuesday, August 2, 6:00 pm
Viet Cuong (BM '11, MM '12, Composition) will be a featured composer at Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music's In the Works concert
at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium in California. The concert will feature new works by Mr. Cuong, Dani Howard, and Michael Schachter conducted in rotation by six emerging conductors from the festival's Conductors/Composers Workshop. This year will also mark Director of the Graduate Conducting Program Marin Alsop's 25th anniversary with the festival and her final season as music director/conductor.
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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Soprano Maggie Finnegan (
MM '10, Voice) won the first place prize of $10,000, as well as the audience prize for $1,000, in the Friday Morning Music Club's Washington International Competition for Voice held June 18 and 19 at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater. Ms. Finnegan, who was accompanied by Hui-Chuan Chen (
MM '06, DMA '14, Piano), was a student of Stanley Cornett. The judges were Frederica Von Stade, William Stone, and David Effron. Soprano Christine Lyons (
MM '16, Voice) was one of one of six finalists, and the semi-finalists included Madelyn Wanner (
BM '09, Voice), Kate Jackman (
MM '11, Voice), and GPD student Zoe Band (
BM '12, MM '14, Voice).
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Preparatory student
Vincent Igusa, a bassoonist with the Peabody Youth Orchestra, was selected to participate in Carnegie Hall's National Youth Orchestra 2 program. Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute launched NYO2, a two-week, intensive summer training program for outstanding young American instrumentalists ages 14-17, with a particular focus on attracting talented students from groups underserved by and underrepresented in the classical orchestral field. The first season took place from June 18 to July 4.
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Master's student Hyun Jung Kim won first prize in the sixth Sendai International Piano Competition in Japan. She won a cash prize worth $25,000 and will appear in various recitals and orchestra engagements. In the final round Ms. Kim performed Mozart's Piano Concerto in F major, K. 459 and Brahms' Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, Op. 15. Ms. Kim is currently studying with Yong Hi Moon.
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Junior Juan Esteban Martinez, a clarinetist who studies with Anthony McGill, won first place in the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition at the 27th Annual Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival (TMF) in Houston. Mr. Martinez was one of seven TMF Music Fellows to reach the concerto competition finals for the opportunity to perform solo with the TMF Orchestra on June 24-25, plus a prestigious appearance in Leipzig's famed Gewandhaus with the Leipzig Akademisches Orchester in Germany in fall 2016.
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Piotr Pakhomkin (
BM '08, MM '10, Guitar) is the winner of the 2016 Respighi Prize, an international competition for composers and soloists. The award includes a performance as featured soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of New York in the 2017-18 season "Masterwork Series" at Carnegie Hall, as well as a recording of the concert. Mr. Pakhomkin studied with Manuel Barrueco.
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DMA student Meng-Sheng Shen, a student of Boris Slutsky, took first prize in the Advanced Category of the 2016 San Jose International Piano Competition. He also won two special prizes: the Audience Prize and Best Performance of a Beethoven Sonata. The award includes $5,000, the gold medal, and performance opportunities.
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