Upcoming Live Stream Events
Next month, two Peabody events will be live streamed, including Peggy and Yale Gordon Concerto Competition Winner Mafalda Santos, violoncello, performing Elgar’s Violoncello Concerto with the Peabody Symphony Orchestra led by Joseph Young on Saturday, December 1, at 7:30 pm. On Wednesday, December 5, at 12:30 pm, Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Tim Page will join Dean Fred Bronstein for the Dean's Symposium Series. Page has hosted broadcast interviews with hundreds of composers and musicians for WNYC-FM and is the author of the official history of Carnegie Hall. Watch these events live at ustream.tv.
From the Dean
The launch of the Peabody Institute’s Breakthrough Curriculum last year is paving the way to think anew about training musicians for life as 21st century citizen artists. In putting a firm stake in the ground around this important initiative, Peabody is also committing to a significant investment of resources. For that reason, it is especially gratifying that two recent gifts of $1 million each to Peabody were made in support of this signature initiative. 

Ci-Ying Sun ( BM ’92, MM ’94, Piano), born in Shanghai, is an accomplished pianist who chose to pursue a highly successful career in business and the banking industry, in a career that has included positions such as managing director of UBS China domestic wealth management and senior vice president for the auction house Christie’s Asia. “My Peabody education provided the foundation for my success,” noted Ci-Ying Sun, whose gift supports the Breakthrough Curriculum and provides funds for the purchase of a new piano in honor of her piano teacher at Peabody, faculty artist Ellen Mack. 

The George Peabody Society recognizes donors whose lifetime giving reaches $1.4 million and above, which was the amount of George Peabody’s gift over 161 years ago to found the Peabody Institute. The most recent addition to the ranks of the George Peabody Society is Nancy S. Grasmick, who has made a multi-year commitment of $1 million to support Peabody’s Breakthrough Curriculum. This commitment, from a leading educational expert and former state superintendent of Maryland schools for more than 20 years, takes on even greater meaning as it demonstrates a firm belief in the direction of Peabody’s new Breakthrough Curriculum and a recognition of the importance of this work. We could not be more grateful to Nancy, also a member of the Peabody Institute Advisory Board, for her wonderful support. 

We salute Ci-Ying Sun and Nancy Grasmick for their generous support of Peabody.  
 



Fred Bronstein, Dean
On Stage/Off Campus
Now through Sunday, November 25
 
Faculty composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Silent Night makes its Washington National Opera premiere. Based on the true story of a World War I ceasefire, the performances take place in the centennial month of the war’s end. Preparatory voice faculty artist Daniel Neer sings French Soldier #1 in the production at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater.

Friday, November 16, Saturday, November 17, 8:00 pm

Netanel Draiblate ( MM ’07, GPD ’09, Violin) will be the soloist for John Corigliano’s The Red Violin: Chaconne with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, where he serves as the orchestra’s concertmaster. He recently became the program director of the Annapolis Symphony Academy, whose goal is not only to provide affordable classical music training but to work to help diversify the classical music world. 

Saturday, November 17, 3:00 pm

Amy Domingues ( MM '12, Viola da Gamba) is a member Sonnambula, which recently became the ensemble in residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the 2018-19 season. The group will perform in a concert titled “Sound and the City: Street Cries from Renaissance London” at The Met Cloisters.

Sunday, November 25, 7:00 pm

Faculty artist Amit Peled, cello, will perform in a concert presented by the London Cello Society called “Glories of Venice.” The concert centers around great Venetian cello makers and will feature instruments produced there. Peled will play works by Popper and Bruch on the Goffriller cello in Duke’s Hall, at the Royal Academy of Music, London.

Friday, November 30, 8:00 pm

J'Nai Bridges, mezzo soprano, and Mark Markham ( BM ’84, MM ’86, DMA ’91, Piano) will present a concert with the Spire Series at First and Franklin Presbyterian Church. The program includes works by Mahler, Montsalvatge, Copland, Ives, and spirituals. The duo will also perform in Carnegie Hall in New York City on December 13.

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Artistic Achievements
Oscar Bettison
Faculty artist Oscar Bettison, composition, has received a 2018 Fromm Commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University, which seeks to strengthen composition and to bring contemporary concert music closer to the public. He will write a new piece for the Talea Ensemble, 19 of New York City’s finest classically-trained musicians with a mission to bring visionary new works to life.
Leela Breithaupt
Leela Breithaupt ( BM '93, MM '96, Flute) has been appointed president and CEO of IndyBaroque Music Inc., the parent organization of the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra and Ensemble Voltaire. The organization, with Barthold Kuijken as artistic director, fosters connections between the past and the present, building a sense of community and mutual understanding in central Indiana, and encouraging the process of self-discovery through music. 
Christine Lyons
Soprano Christine Lyons ( MM ’16, Voice) won the grand prize in the Mary Trueman Art Song Competition and will be presented in recital in New York with pianist Tom Muraco in May 2019. She also won a grant award from The Gerda Lissner Foundation in their Song/Lieder Competition and was presented in a winner’s recital at the Liederkranz Foundation in New York, November 2.
Gemma New
Gemma New ( MM '11, Conducting) has been named Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s first female principal guest conductor. She will conduct two weeks of concerts in the 2019-20 season and three weeks in 2020-21. Her 2019 appearances will coincide with the DSO's inaugural Women in Classical Music Symposium.
Gu Wei and Mi Zhou 
Gu Wei ( MM '17, Composition) and Mi Zhou ( MM '18, Organ) were selected as one of the four composer/organist pairs by the American Guild of Organists (AGO) for their Student Commissioning Project 2019. The project is AGO's most recent new music venture, with the aim of creating new repertoire for the organ. The pair will produce a new organ piece to be premiered in spring 2019.
Recent Releases
At the centerpiece this debut album by Mark Lackey ( MM '02, DMA '09, Composition) is the 13-minute chamber work Fairy Tale for flute, guitar, cello, and percussion. The work features Caleb Vaughn-Jones ( PC '06, Cello), Mark Edwards ( MM ’09, GPD ’11, Guitar), Marissa LaBant ( BM ’04, Flute), and faculty artist Edward Tetreault ( MM ’05, Recording Arts) as recording engineer. This piece was recorded in Peabody's Miriam A. Freidberg Hall. Other pieces on the album include Outside the Bluebird and Starscapes. 
Attention Conservatory Alumni
The Peabody Conservatory is working with a company called PCI to improve our data and create an alumni directory. You may have recently received a postcard or an e-mail about this project. We thank you for your participation. Please visit the alumni webpage with any questions about the directory.