Amy Beth Kirsten on Faculty at 2016 highSCORE Contemporary Music Festival
Composition faculty member Amy Beth Kirsten will be on faculty at the 2016 highSCORE Festival alongside former composition faculty Christopher Theofanidis, Julia Wolfe, Dmitri Tymoczko, and others. The contemporary music festival will take place in Pavia, Italy on August 1-13. Applications are due Friday, April 8. Visit http://www.highscorefestival.com/ for more information.
Hajime Teri Murai and Peabody Symphony Orchestra’s Mahler Performance Reviewed In The Baltimore Sun
Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Director of Orchestral Activities Hajime Teri Murai and the Peabody Symphony Orchestra received a review in The Baltimore Sun by classical music critic Tim Smith for their performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 on Saturday, January 30. The review, titled “Murai leads Peabody Symphony in stirring account of Mahler’s Ninth,” highlighted Maestro […]
Dion Cunningham Performs in Carnegie Hall and The Bahamas
Dion Cunningham (MM ’13, Piano) performed in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall in New York in November sponsored by the American Protege Association. Mr. Cunningham is currently in the Bahamas, where he has developed a series of musical presentations geared towards primary and high school students. Titled “A Journey of Western Art Music from Antiquity to […]
Scott A. Miller II Selected as 2016 Aspen Music Festival Composition Fellow
Scott A. Miller II (MM ‘15, Composition; Music Theory Pedagogy) received a commission from the Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra and has been selected as a composition fellow for the 2016 Aspen Music Festival and School.