Joyous Early Music-Making
This year, the Peabody Renaissance Ensemble (PRE) celebrates its 35th anniversary with its spring program, If Music Be the Food of Love, a special collaboration with the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company.
Building A Young Guitarist Community
Young guitarists in the Baltimore/ Washington, D.C., region have new opportunities for musical growth and community with the launch last October of the Peabody-Levine Guitar Ensemble Collaboration Project.
A Soundtrack That’s Core to Healing
Welcome to Nono’s World, a brightly colored landscape of rocks and trees and clouds, occupied by a pink and blue cartoon axolotl with enormous eyes and an impish smile.
An Advocate for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Singing since the age of 12, Dr. China Wilson was bitten by the stardom bug after she co-starred in a 1997 adaption of West Side Story that was produced in the Boston area and fea- tured on 60 Minutes.
Finding Resonance in Our Shared Humanity
Carl DuPont can trace the origins of his Exploring Art Songs by Black Composers project to one weekend during his junior year at the Eastman School of Music. First, he performed for The Links, Incorporated, a social and service organization for profes- sional Black women, through which he earned a scholarship, and later at his junior jury, after which a peer pointed out something obvious that DuPont had never considered.
A Grammy for the Backup Plan
Engineering was Karl Wingate’s backup plan to appease his mom. The Baltimore native played guitar in rock bands as a teenager, and would record music on home computers and friends’ laptops.
A Legacy of Connecting Artists and Audiences
While earning her graduate degree at Peabody, Chelsey Green (MM ’09, Viola) participated in an annual concert held every Black History Month at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel.
Accelerating Faculty Excellence
With a new commitment of $750,000 in funding from the office of the President of Johns Hopkins University, Peabody’s new Dean’s Excellence Accelerator Awards are designed to advance the careers of Conservatory faculty by helping to underwrite their professional activity both on and off the Peabody campus.
Distinguished Faculty Chairs Installed
In October, professors Elizabeth Futral, the Marc C. von May Distinguished Chair of Vocal Studies, and Zane Forshee (MM ’01, GPD ’03, DMA ’11, Guitar), the Marc C. von May Distinguished Chair of Professional Studies, were installed as endowed chairs during a ceremony at the George Peabody Library.
Exploring Music’s Mysteries
Nikolai Klotchkov, a Russian-born saxophonist, scientist, and DMA student, loves how music touches the heart. He’s just as passionate about how music affects the brain.