Peabody Institute - Eileen Cornett: Current Studio

Eileen Cornett

Current Studio

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 He will perform all of Samuel Barber's songs, including several unpublished songs, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' Bruno Walter Theater.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.

YooHee Shin

Ms. Yoohee Shin, a collaborative pianist from Southern California, is recognized as a leading artist of the Korean society in the United States.

Working as both a musician and a business woman, she is currently a president of Piano Plaza, Inc and a director of its Music Academy wherein numerous young students are registered. She is also a music education and information columnist of The Korea Monitor magazine, and is employed as a concert accompanist by the Washington Soloist Ensemble.

Ms. Shin started her training in music from an early age at Sun-Hwa Arts School in South Korea. After her immigration, she earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University as a piano major and simultaneously assisted the Opera Department and the Italian language departments as a coach and accompanist. Other accompanying experience includes rehearsal and concert piano for the Korean-American Young Artists and Los Angeles-Seoul Men's Chorale. Last summer, she served as a visiting faculty of music department at Hapdong Theological Seminary.

Ms. Shin has concertized in Seoul, California, Texas, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York and Maryland. She is a winner of numerous solo, concerto and chamber music competitions, including Choonchu Music Competition, a Gala Scholarship recipient of five thousand dollars at Hamilton Music Academy, the Asian-American Orchestra Concerto Competition, and the Southwestern Music Festival Chamber Music Competition.

An active church musician, Ms. Shin has served as musical advisor for church mission trips to Bangladesh, China and Korea.

Her former teachers include Jayung Park in Korea, Ann Perry at University of Southern California, and Seth Knopp at Peabody Institute. Currently, she is in her first year as a graduate student in the Masters of Vocal Accompanying degree program, studying with Eileen Cornett.

Ka Nyung Yu

Ka Nyung was born in Yeosu, South Korea and began studying piano at age 6. She graduated from the Hanyang University in 2004 with a Bachelors degree in Piano performance, where she studied with MinSuk Kim and Mikyung Yoon. She received full tuition scholarships as a school / opera accompanist throughout her undergraduate years at Hanyang University. Ka Nyung is currently the music director for Papageno!, Peabody Opera Theatre's Outreach production of The Magic Flute. She has also served as coach accompanist for Peabody's productions of La Traviata and The Advenures of Sharp Ears the Vixen.

Bu Kyung Shin

Bu Kyung Shin was born in Seoul, South Korea and began studying piano at age 6. She earned a Bachelor degree in piano performance from Sookmyung Women’s University, where she studied with Jung Ae Son. She earned a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance from Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University with Seth Knopp. Currently, she is in her second year as a Masters of Vocal Accompanying degree program, studying with Eileen Cornett.

She had several performances in Korea including solo recital in 2006. Bu Kyung was awarded the Opera Assistantship in Accompanying, and has played for Peabody Opera Theatre productions of La Traviata, Cosi fan Tutte, The Adventures of Sharp Ears the Vixen, Transformations, and Die Fledermaus.

Hyejin Kwon

Hyejin Kwon was born in Seoul, South Korea and began studying piano at age 4. She made her first public debut at age 7 and her orchestra debut at age 11. Hyejin won numerous competitions in her native country while she was studying with Chung Mo Kang at the Korean National University of Art preparatory. She came to America at age 15 to attend the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan where she studied with T. J. Lymenstull. Hyejin won the MTNA Concerto competition in 2004 and was also featured on Interlochen Public Radio.

Hyejin graduated from the Peabody Institute of Music of the Johns Hopkins University in 2009 with her Bachelors degree in Piano performance where she studied with Marian Hahn. She has been working as a school accompanist throughout her undergraduate years at Peabody Institute, and toured with the Opera OutReach Program during her senior year. She has been the pianist for the Johns Hopkins Medical Institute Choral Society since 2008, and was awarded a Graduate Assistantship in Opera Accompanying for the fall of 2009.

`Christine Pulliam`

Christine Pulliam is pursuing a masters degree in vocal accompanying at the Peabody Institute. A native of Indianapolis, she graduated from Butler University summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Music where she studied with Panayis Lyras. She completed her Masters degree in piano performance at the University of Maryland where she studied with Santiago Rodriguez and André Watts. She is currently on the faculty of the Levine School of Music in Washington D.C. and performs regularly in the D.C. area, including recent performances at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, the Embassy of France and Church of the Epiphany. Last year she gave a solo recital and masterclass at the University of Wisconsin at Platteville and in 2006 performed at two universities in the Philippines and Malacañan Palace. She performed several years at the Masterworks Festival as a staff accompanist and soloist with the orchestra in 2003. A fan of new music, she has premiered works by Benjamin Boyle and Frank Felice.

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