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Mark Cudek Honored for Global Achievements
Faculty artist Mark Cudek (MM '82, Lute) will receive the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association’s Global Achievement Award at his Peabody Renaissance Ensemble concert on Friday, December 5, at 8:00 pm. The award is given to individuals who exemplify the Johns Hopkins tradition of excellence and have brought credit to the University and their profession in the international arena. Cudek founded the Peabody Consort and the Baltimore Consort and has toured with them in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Taiwan.
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FROM THE DEAN
On October 21 the Peabody Institute convened a panel of national arts leaders to discuss the question, “What’s Next for Classical Music?” Viewers from across the U.S. and from 31 countries watched the 3-hour session online in real time. Leading up to this conversation, and prompted by this symposium, the national news program America Tonight aired a feature story and The Baltimore Sun ran an opinion piece on the subject. The event and related media drove a thought-provoking conversation that focused on the importance of music, and how education, lifestyle, and technology have impacted the arts.
What the panel made clear was that we are at the vortex of an amazing time of possibility. At the same time, there is a real danger in prescribing the same “solutions” from the past as opposed to challenging ourselves to think about how to make our art increasingly relevant, increasingly connected to the community, and more central to living a full life than ever before. The question is not whether there is a future for classical music; it’s whether our field has the courage to evolve and change and in doing so, rethink how we prepare young artists for that future. I believe Peabody will be a leader in that change.
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PEABODY EVENTS
Now through November 12 at 8:00 pm
The Aspen String Trio – faculty artist Victoria Chiang, viola; Michael Mermagen (BM '84, Cello), and David Perry, violin – will present three concerts with Micah Yui (GPD ’01, Piano) in Los Angeles as part of the Music Guild's 70th anniversary season.
Now through November 15
Corinne Winters (MM '07, Voice) will perform the role of Mimi in Puccini's La boh�me, making her Washington National Opera debut. Winters was interviewed by Elaine Reyes of CCTV's Americas Now about the production, her debut album Canci�n amorosa, and singing in Mandarin.
Saturday, November 15 at 8:00 pm
The PostClassical Ensemble, an experimental musical laboratory, will present a concert at Dumbarton Church in Washington, D.C. The concert will feature Kevin Deas, bass baritone; Netanel Draiblate (MM '07, GPD '09, Violin), and Igor Leschishin, oboe, along with the Duke Ellington School of the Arts Chamber Singers. The final work on the program, Nun ist das Heil, will be performed as an audience sing-along.
Monday, November 17 through Saturday, December 20
Opera faculty member Garnett Bruce is the assistant director for the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s revival of Porgy and Bess, with Tammie Woods (GPD '14, Voice) in the chorus. They were both involved in the original 2009 production in San Francisco, which has just been released on DVD.
Friday, November 21 at 7:30 pm
The world premiere performance of Daughters of the Bloody Duke by Jake Runestad (MM '11, Composition) will take place at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Runestad was commissioned by the Washington National Opera to create the work as part of its American Opera Initiative. Written with award-winning librettist David Johnston, this new opera explores a daughter's struggle against authority as she chooses love over her family's revenge.
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PEABODY PEOPLE
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Manuel Barrueco (BM ’75, Guitar)
Faculty artist Manuel Barrueco’s most recently released CD, Medea, was nominated for a Latin Grammy in the Best Classical Music Recordings category. The awards show will be held on November 20 and aired on Univision. Jerry Dubins of Fanfare Magazine reviewed this and other CDs by Barrueco for the September issue and writes, "If he’s not the greatest living guitarist on the world stage today, I don’t know who is."
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Nicholas Bentz
Sophomore Nicholas Bentz, a violinist in Herbert Greenberg's studio, won the grand prize for the Pacific Region International Summer Music Academy (PRISMA) concerto competition. For the top prize, he traveled to Russia last month to rehearse and perform in a concert of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra’s Master Series in the Historic Grand Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. PRISMA is a summer program in Powell River, British Columbia.
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Chen Zhangyi
Current composition DMA candidate Chen Zhangyi was one of five artists awarded the Singapore National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award 2014. This honor is Singapore’s highest award for young arts practitioners, age 35 and under in the year of award, whose artistic achievements and commitment have distinguished them among their peers.
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Sarah Davis (MM ’06, Voice)
Sarah Davis (MM ’06, Voice) was the 2014 winner of The American Prize in Voice – Friedrich & Virginia Schorr Memorial Award, in the professional art song/oratorio division.
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Amit Peled
Cello faculty artist Amit Peled’s experience receiving and performing on Pablo Casals's restored cello was profiled in an article by Scott Calvert for the Wall Street Journal. Peled will perform in a recital at Peabody in February, playing the same program Casals himself performed at Peabody 100 years ago. Peled also wrote an essay about his first introduction to the Casals cello in Opus magazine.
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RECENT RECORDINGS |
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A debut album by Rachel Choe (MM '02, GPD '03, DMA '09, Flute), released through Fieldstone House, breaks down barriers between classical and jazz and includes many jazz standards as well as folk tunes and film music. |
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Joel Fan’s (MM '94, Piano) recent CD, released through Reference Recordings, features more obscure works by Chopin, Saint-Saens, and Weber, as well as Piern�, Castro, Gottschalk, and Cadman. A full interview with Fan was in the October issue of Fanfare magazine. |
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Chelsey Green (MM ’09, Viola) and The Green Project’s new album made the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums Chart debuting at No. 22 on the first week of its release. |
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