Upcoming Live Stream Events
Please join Peabody for three live streamed concerts in April. Distinguished Artist in Residence Vadim Gluzman, violin, will present a recital on Friday, April 12, at 7:30 pm, with his wife and recital partner Angela Yoffe, piano, and several Peabody students. On Monday, April 15, at 12:30 pm, Conrad Osborne, the author of Opera as Opera: The State of the Art, will speak at the Dean’s Symposium. On Tuesday, April 30, at 7:30 pm, Edward Polochick will conduct the Peabody Symphony Orchestra with the Peabody-Hopkins Chorus and Peabody Singers performing Richard Strauss’ Tod und Verklärung (“Death and Transfiguration”), Op. 24, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Mass in C minor, K. 427, "The Great." Watch these events live at ustream.tv.
From the Dean
One of the truly extraordinary things about art is how it can tell stories in the most visceral and compelling way – particularly stories that relate to the human condition. This is one of the great opportunities of composers of our time, whose works can reflect the world people are navigating today, sometimes at great risk and exposure. This is the story of Where We Lost Our Shadows, a new work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Du Yun, a member of Peabody’s illustrious composition faculty since 2017. This past weekend, as part of the Kennedy Center’s Direct Current festival, Peabody students under the direction of Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Artistic Director of Ensembles Joseph Young performed this multi-media work, a Kennedy Center co-commission, to an enthusiastic audience. Where We Lost Our Shadows, which includes film created by Khaled Jarrar, vocalists, percussion, and orchestra, is a moving and remarkably timely story about human migration and what compels people to leave their homes and risk everything. Against the backdrop of Syrian refugees interviewed in brief snippets in Jarrar’s film, this story unfolds. It could just as well be the story of migration in Central America and so many other places around the world. It is testament to the power of music to tell this kind of story in a unique way. On full display in this performance was the humanity of the composer, her collaborators, and the subjects whose stories were brought to life. Also, on full display were the outstanding skills of the Peabody students who performed Du Yun’s challenging score. All I could think about after the performance was that this is exactly why contemporary art exists and is so important. 



Fred Bronstein, Dean
On Stage/Off Campus
Sunday, April 7, 7:30 pm

Faculty artist Ah Young Hong ( BM '98, MM '01, Voice) will present a recital at Spectrum NYC in Brooklyn, N.Y. She will perform rake forth the embers by Michael Hersch ( BM ’95, MM ’97, Composition), Philomel by Milton Babbitt, and ...wie stille brannte das Licht by Georg Friederich Haas. 

Sunday, April 7, 8:00 pm

The Peabody Preparatory’s Pre-Conservatory Violin Program (PCVP), directed by Rebecca Henry, travels this week to Nashville, Tenn., to perform concerts and participate in classes at Western Kentucky University, Belmont University, and Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music. The Preparatory and Blair Pre-College students come together to offer a free concert in the Turner Auditorium at Vanderbilt University.

Thursday, April 11, 7:30 pm 

The American Composers Orchestra will give the New York premiere of faculty artist Du Yun’s Where We Lost Our Shadows, which the Peabody Modern Orchestra performed last month at the Kennedy Center. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to create this new multidisciplinary work. Du Yun also recently received the BraVo Award for Best Classical Composition in Modern Performance in Moscow. 

Thursday, April 18, 8:00 pm 

The Nu Deco Ensemble, directed by Jacomo Bairos ( GPD '11, Conducting), will present a concert with singer-songwriter Ben Folds and the orchestral debut of New Zealand singer Kimbra. The concert will take place at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing in Miami.

Friday, April 19, 7:00 pm

Rise Bmore, a concert event founded by faculty artist Judah Adashi ( MM '02, DMA '11, Composition), will present a free evening of words, music, and movement in honor of Freddie Gray. At 7:00 pm, Brittani McNeill ( GPD '15, Voice) will lead a conversation about art and activism. The 8:00 pm concert includes music, poetry, and dance by Adashi, Binae Ali, Conservatory Dance Chair danah bella, Taylor Hillary Boykins ( MM '14, Voice), Lavena Johanson ( MM '13, Cello), Richard and Elizabeth Case Chair in Jazz Studies Sean Jones, Jessie Montgomery, faculty artist Wendel Patrick, J. Pope, Tariq Touré, and the Peabody String Sinfonia. 

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Artistic Achievements
Douglas Buchanan/Caitlin Vincent
Douglas Buchanan ( MM '08, Composition, Music Theory Pedagogy; DMA '13, Composition) and librettist Caitlin Vincent ( MM '09, Voice) premiered a new opera Bessie and Ma, commissioned by the University of Connecticut as part of the 2017/2019 Sackler Prize in Music Composition, last week. The opera tells the story of the intersecting lives of Bessie Coleman, the first female aviator of color in the United States, and Miriam "Ma" Ferguson, the first female governor of Texas.
Solen Mainguené
Solen Mainguené ( BM ’10, Voice) won first place in the 26th International Singing Competition of Clermont-Ferrand (France). From among more than 350 contestants, she also won the prize for the Best Interpreter of Italian Repertoire. Along with a monetary prize, she was awarded professional contracts to perform the role of Nedda in Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci in 12 performances at opera houses in France.
Jordan Prescott
Master’s candidate Jordan Prescott, organ, has been named one of Diapason Magazine’s “20 Under 30,” which recognizes young people who have established themselves at the forefront of the organ, harpsichord, and church music professions. Prescott is a student of John Walker. 
Nola Richardson
Nola Richardson ( MM '10, Voice Pedagogy; MM '11, Early Music Voice) won the Grand Rapids Bach Festival Competition. She was the recipient of the Linn Maxwell Keller Distinguished Bach Musician award, which included a $10,000 prize. The finals were held on March 21 at the Cathedral of Saint Andrew, in Grand Rapids, Mich. 
Min Joo Yi
Graduate student Min Joo Yi ( MM ’18, Piano) won the bronze medal with a cash prize in the 18th Concours International Piano Campus Competition, which was held in Cergy-Pontoise, France, in February. Yi is a student of Yong Hi Moon.
Peabody Reunion Weekend
There’s still time to register to join your Peabody classmates for a weekend of music and memories!
April 26 – 28, 2019
Honored Classes: 
50th Reunion, 1968 & 1969
40th Reunion, 1978 & 1979
25th Reunion, 1993 & 1994
For more information, visit peabody.jhu.edu/reunion or contact peabodyalumni@jhu.edu.