Conducting DMA candidate Juliano Dutra Aniceto has been hired as Marin Alsop’s assistant conductor at Ravinia with the Chicago Symphony starting summer 2024.
Conducting student Jessica Altarriba is one of four Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship awardees for 2024-26.
Conducting student Claire Lewis has won the first Richmond Symphony Conducting Apprenticeship. She will spend 4-6 weeks during the 2024-25 season with top musical organizations
Hae Lee (MM ’23, Orchestral Conducting), Quinton Folks (GPD ’23, Conducting) and DMA candidate Juliano Dutra Aniceto are finalists for the assistant conductor position with
Christopher Franklin (DMA ’99, Conducting) named Principal Conductor of the Minnesota Opera. His three-year contract begins in February conducting The Elixir of Love.
Marin Alsop, Professor and Director of the Graduate Conducting Program, has been appointed principal guest conductor for the Philadelphia Orchestra beginning in the 2024-25 season.
Hae Lee (MM ’23, Orchestral Conducting) was awarded second prize in the 2023 Kussewitzky Competition which ran October 13-14 in Grosset, Italy.
December means entertainment awards-season pushes and year-end best-of lists, with Peabody faculty and alumni popping up in various publications’ annual round ups. The New York
Awadagin Pratt’s (PC ’89, Piano; PC ’89, Violin; GPD ’92, Conducting) album STILLPOINT, featuring composer Paola Prestini (’95, Composition) was reviewed by NPR.
Marin Alsop, Professor and Director of the Graduate Conducting Program, led the Last Night of the Proms 2023 on September 9, which the BBC liveblogged and then celebrated in review.