
Noelle McMurtry Receives Presser Foundation Graduate Music Award
Soprano Noelle McMurtry, a second-year DMA student of Ah Young Hong, has been selected to receive the Presser Foundation’s Graduate Music Award of $10,000 to
Soprano Noelle McMurtry, a second-year DMA student of Ah Young Hong, has been selected to receive the Presser Foundation’s Graduate Music Award of $10,000 to
The winners have been announced for the 2020-21 Vocal Studies Competition at the Peabody Conservatory. Under remote learning guidelines, contestants submitted video recordings of their
Jay Shankar, an undergraduate clarinet student, has been awarded first prize in Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition in Classical Clarinet. Winners of the competition will travel
Dance BFA students Rush Johnston’s solo “Nothingness” and Zoë Payne’s “-back again-” were presented in the Werner Independent Choreographer Showcase, College Edition in November.
Three cello students were awarded prizes in the Mount Vernon Virtuosi Online Cello Competition. Junior Jorge Giménez was awarded first place with a cash prize
Guitar masters student Junhong Kuang (BM ’20, Guitar) released Rodrigo, Ponce & Garcia: Guitar Concertos with the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice conducted by Darrell
Violin student Yanxiong Kevin Huang performed with the China Philharmonic Orchestra in the closing concert of the 23rd Beijing Music Festival conducted by Yu Long.
Conducting master’s student Leonard Weiss is a recipient of the 2020 Churchill Fellowship Award. With support from the Churchill Trust, Weiss has been invited to
Cello students in the studio of Alan Stepansky performed and recorded Kol Nidrei by Max Bruch arranged by David Johnstone. The audio and video was
Assistant Professor Jenine Brown, music theory, and Nathan Cornelius (DMA ’18, Guitar) recently published an article on “Hearing tetrachords in an atonal context” in the