Michelle Shin to Perform Stravinsky, Brahms, Beethoven, Ysaÿe, and Wieniawski
Peggy and Yale Gordon Concerto Competition winner Michelle Shin, violin, will perform at the Towson Unitarian Universalist Church at 2:00 pm on Sunday, November 1, in a concert presented by Music in the Great Hall. Ms. Shin will perform works by Stravinsky, Brahms, Beethoven, Ysaÿe, and Wieniawski. Read more and purchase tickets here.
Bethany Pietroniro Named Collaborative Piano Fellow at Bard Conservatory of Music
Bethany Pietroniro (MM ’13, Piano, Vocal Accompanying; GPD ’15, Piano) has been named a collaborative piano fellow at the Bard Conservatory of Music in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The Postgraduate Collaborative Piano Fellowship is a two-year, full-tuition program with a generous stipend for living expenses. The fellowship was designed to give professional experience to collaborative artists, […]
Nicholas Pothier Appointed Adjunct Lecturer, Staff Pianist, and Coach at Saint Anselm College
Nicholas Pothier (MM ’15, Vocal Accompanying) has been appointed adjunct lecturer, staff pianist, and coach at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. Mr. Pothier served as music director and coach for Opera Breve Vocal Incentive’s opera scenes program in Wichita Falls, Texas, as well as pianist for the Prescott Park arts festival in Portsmouth, […]
Premiere of Michael Hersch’s Carrion-Miles to Purgatory Reviewed in The Washington Post
The premiere of faculty artist Michael Hersch’s Carrion-Miles to Purgatory by Annette von Hehn, violin, and Stefan Heinemeyer, cello, of the Atos Trio was reviewed in The Washington Post on October 18. Classical music critic Anne Midgette called the 13-part duet “a spare, intense, fiercely inward-turning work” and “a significant meditation on life and death.” […]
Mark Weiser wins 2015 Ithaca College International Heckscher Composition Prize and first prize at TheEar concert
High Velocity, a piano piece by Mark Weiser (BM ’91, Piano; MM ’93, Composition), won the 2015 Ithaca College International Heckscher Composition Prize and first prize at TheEar concert competition in New York. The piece has been recorded by its dedicatee Hannah Creviston for the soon to be released CD, Breaking.
Hart Linker Receives Undergraduate Research Grant from University of North Carolina at Greensboro
“Floral-dip transformation of Arabidopsis lyrata,” a research project by Hart Linker (MM ’11, Saxophone), received a Fall 2015 Undergraduate Research Grant from the Biology Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Lavena Johanson to Perform Elgar Cello Concerto with Saratoga Orchestra of Whidbey Island
Lavena Johanson (MM ’13, Cello) will perform the Elgar Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85, with the Saratoga Orchestra of Whidbey Island on October 24-25 in Washington. Ms. Johanson will also give a master class on October 22 at South Whidbey High School. Details and tickets are available here.
Devon Borowski, Joshua Walden, and Susan Weiss to participate in American Musicological Society conference
Devon Borowski (MM ’15, Voice, Musicology) and Peabody musicology faculty members Susan Weiss and Joshua Walden will participate in the upcoming American Musicological Society conference in Louisville, Kentucky, on November 12-15. Dr. Weiss and Dr. Walden will speak in the panel, “‘I Concentrate on You’: Contemplating the Music and Lyrics of Cole Porter,” and Dr. […]
