Celebrating 15 Year Partnership with Singapore
On Tuesday, August 21, the Peabody Institute will mark 15 years of our unique collaboration with the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music with a
gala concert featuring performances by alumni and faculty of both schools. Peabody Dean Fred Bronstein will join guest of honor Tony Tan, former president of Singapore, and YST Dean Bernard Lanskey in honoring those who led the development and opening of the Singapore music conservatory, which over the years has taken its place as a leading institution for the training of professional musicians in Asia. Peabody faculty artist Keng-Yuen Tseng, violin, and several Peabody alumni will perform alongside YST musicians on a program including works from the traditional repertoire, as well as works by alumni composers.
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FROM THE DEAN
It's hard to imagine that the 2018-19 academic year is upon us, with a full season of outstanding performances. Excellence, innovation, community connectivity, and diversity are fully on display, as our students, faculty, and guests create a hotbed of musical activity with the premiere of new works, launching new programs, and building new relationships through the performing arts.
There are too many highlights to mention here, but I am especially excited about Peabody's performance of Leonard Bernstein's
MASS, conducted by Marin Alsop, in celebration of the Bernstein centennial. The
MASS features a cast of hundreds and community partners including the Morgan State University Choir in a theatrical and musical spectacle unlike anything else. We're also proud to welcome acclaimed violinists Judith Ingolfsson and Vadim Gluzman to our faculty and to our recital stage. We'll enjoy visits by world renowned violinist Shlomo Mintz, conducting and playing with the Peabody Symphony Orchestra; the violin/piano duo Pamela Frank and Stephen Prutsman in honor of our own Leon Fleisher's 90th birthday; and renowned cellist Colin Carr, performing the six solo cello suites by J.S. Bach. The brilliant contemporary music ensemble Alarm Will Sound visits Peabody to perform the world premiere of a violin concerto written by faculty composer Oscar Bettison for faculty artist Courtney Orlando, made possible through a Johns Hopkins University Catalyst Award. Our first cohort of BFA Dance students are on campus and on stage this fall under the direction of danah bella, and Sean Jones leads a newly re-invigorated jazz program, including the return of the Peabody Latin Jazz Ensemble and a special Dean's Symposium with jazz legend Benny Golson. The Hip-Hop Ensemble directed by Wendel Patrick also debuts.
There are so many great performances to look forward to - I cannot wait!
The full listing of concert events will be posted shortly at
peabody.jhu.edu/events. Tickets will be available September 5.
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ON STAGE / OFF CAMPUS
Friday, August 17, 6:30 pm
The Peabody Preparatory
Improvisation and Creative Composition Ensemble will present a summer concert. Their repertoire will include new improvisational works created during a one-week summer intensive workshop with Baltimore City youth and the Peabody Institute ensemble members. The free concert will take place at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum.
Friday, August 17, 7:30 pm
Faculty artist Amit Peled and his Cello Gang will perform a program titled "Around the World in Seven Cellos" presented by the
Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival. Peled and his students Mairead Flory, Ismael Guerrero, Javier Iglesias Martin, Joseph Staten, Jiaoyang "Sunny" Xu, and Tzu-Jou "Zoi" Yeh will perform works by Boccherini, Werner, Bruch, Piazzolla, Haydn, and Popper.
Friday, August 17, Saturday, August 18, 7:00 pm; Sunday, August 19, 2:30 pm
Baritone Rob McGinness (
MM '17, Voice) will be featured in a Menotti opera double feature at Saltworks Opera at the
North Street Playhouse in Onancock, Va. McGinness will portray Bob in
The Old Maid and The Thief and Ben in
The Telephone.
Friday, August 17, Monday, August 20, 8:00 pm
The Beijing Guitar Duo - Meng Su (
PC '09, GPD '11, MM '16, AD '18, Guitar; GPD '15, Chamber Ensemble) and Yameng Wang (
MM '08, GPD '11, Guitar) - will perform with the Grigoryan Brothers at the
Sydney Guitar Festival on August 17 and in
Canberra on August 20 as part of their Australian tour.
Sunday, August 19, 1:30 pm
Historical performance faculty artists Risa Browder, violin, and John Moran, cello, will join Jeffrey Cohan, 8-keyed flute, to perform trios for flute, violin, and cello from the time of Mozart and Haydn, including selections from the Library of Congress by Pietro Florio and Joseph Tacet. The concert, part of the
Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival, will be held at Baltimore Basilica.
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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Carlos Bandera (MM '17, Composition) was awarded the 2018 Underwood Commission from the American Composers Orchestra (ACO). This is a $15,000 commission for a work to be premiered by the ACO in a future season. Bandera won the top prize with his work Lux in Tenebris.
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Jennifer Nicole Campbell (
BM '14, Piano) has been composer in residence at the Academy of International Ballet in Media, Pa., for the 2017-18 season. In April, they gave the world premiere of her piece
Portal with original choreography. See a video of her performance
here. She also was involved in Piano at Peabody, where she presented a master class, lecture, recital, coachings, and lessons.
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Preparatory violin student Olivia Chen, a student of Herbert Greenberg and member of the Pre-Conservatory Violin Program, has won second place in the Second Ilona Fehér International Violin Competition, which was held in Budapest July 23-28.
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Charles Halka (
BM '06, Piano; MM '08, Composition, Music Theory Pedagogy) was granted a 2019 Barlow Endowment General Commission to write a new work for flute, clarinet, and percussion for Ónix Ensemble. Halka begins his position as assistant professor of composition and theory at Western Washington University this fall.
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Jisu Jung (
BM '16, GPD '17, Percussion) won the Grace Woodson Memorial First Prize and the audience prize, which led to $26,000 in awards at the Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Competition, one of the foremost multi-instrument competitions in the world. Jung performed Séjourné's Concerto for Marimba and Strings with the Houston Symphony on June 2.
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RECENT RELEASES
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Claudia Friedlander (
MM '95, Clarinet, Voice) released her first book
Complete Vocal Fitness: A Singer's Guide to Physical Training, Anatomy, and Fitness in June. Friedlander, a voice teacher and fitness trainer based in New York City, has pioneered the concept of sport-specific training for singers and adapted principles of biomechanics and motor learning to accelerate progress in the voice studio. With more than 100 hand-drawn anatomical illustrations and photographs,
Complete Vocal Fitness offers singers of all styles and skill levels the tools to develop their individual voices into unique state-of-the-art instruments.
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