The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University

CONGRATULATIONS

JEROME TAN will join Marilyn Horne on a Mediterranean Music Cruise: A Musical Voyage from Venice to Athens as accompanist to singers Nicole Cabell, Sasha Cooke, Kelly Markgraf, and Joshua Stewart. As the recipient of the Marilyn Horne award for Vocal Collaboration, he has played "The Song Continues" and "On Wings of Song" programs in New York, as well as Ms. Horne's birthday Gala at Carnegie Hall. The New York TImes recently praised him as "confident and articulate."

MATTHEW ODELL spent the summer as a vocal coach at the Conservatoire in Nice, with several performances in Nice and in Paris.  He will perform all of Samuel Barber's songs, including several unpublished songs, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' Bruno Walter Theater.  These two concerts will celebrate Barber's centennial and the 50th anniversary of Lincoln Center and will include manuscripts of Barber's works and readings from some of his correspondence. Recently Matthew was the soloist in a performance of Messiaen's Sept Haikai with the AXIOM Ensemble at Columbia University's Miller Theatre in New York. Alex Ross of the New Yorker wrote that "the AXIOM Ensemble sharply illuminated the complexities of 'Seven Haiku'..." According to the New York Times' Anthony Tommasini "the performance, with excellent pianist Matthew O'Dell, was vibrant and compelling." Odell's upcomiong performances include an appearance later this month at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall with the Marilyn Horne Foundation. In February he took part in the multi-concert celebration of the reopening of Alice Tully Hall as the soloist in Messiaen's Des canyons aux etoiles with David Robertson and The Juilliard Orchestra.

MIAOMIAO WANG joined San Fransisco's Merola Opera Program  as one of five apprentice coaches. She is also the recipient of the Charlotte Cohen Milman Endowed Scholarship at the New England Conservatory of Music.

DANA SCOTT has recently been hired by Washington National Opera to coach for its Opera Institute for Young Singers. She has been working steadily since January for FBN Opera in South Carolina and for Opera for the Young in Wisconsin.  Congratulations, Dana!

After MIYEON HAN joined VOCES INTIMAE for a complete performance of Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch in Dallas, Texas,  Scott Cantrell of the Dallas Morning News wrote: "Star of the show was pianist Mi Yeon Han, whose luminous, unforced tone and telling inflections caught the ear again and again."

YOOHEE SHIN joined FBN Opera Productions in January  2009 as pianist for its tour of John Davies opera for children, Pinocchio.

MING-CHING WU  was the recipient of the Vladimir Horowitz scholarship for the study of collaborative piano at the Juilliard School of Music in the fall of 2008. She will begin doctoral studies in Collaborative Piano at Eastman School of Music in the fall of 2009.

WILLIAM WALDROP has recently been named Musical Director/Conductor for the National Tour of CATS.