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Three Nights, Three Performances at Peabody
Press Contact Only: Richard Selden |
 Joseph Young |
 The Peabody Trio (l-r, Natasha Brofsky, Violaine Melançon, and Seth Knopp) |
For Immediate Release
Three Nights, Three Performances at Peabody:
Opera, Orchestra, and Chamber Music, Oct. 20–22
October 13, 2008, Baltimore, MD: The range and variety of talent at the Peabody Conservatory, one of the world’s most highly regarded music schools, will be on display three nights in a row next week with opera on Monday, orchestral music on Tuesday, and chamber music on Wednesday.
On Monday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 pm, Peabody presents its Free Fall Baltimore event, Opera Potpourri: Opera in English. A sampler of one-act operas performed workshop-style with the simplest of sets and costumes, the program is an audience-friendly introduction to opera. The featured works are: Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Riders to the Sea, Seymour Barab’s A Game of Chance, and Jacques Offenbach’s Marriage by Lanternlight. The stage director is Roger Brunyate, director of opera programs at Peabody. Graduate conducting student Simeone Tartaglione will conduct. Opera Potpourri is free, but advance tickets are required. To reserve, call the Peabody Box Office at 410-659-8100, ext. 2, or visit www.peabody.jhu.edu/events.
The Peabody Symphony Orchestra concert on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 8:00 pm will showcase Peabody’s orchestral conducting program, led by master teacher Gustav Meier. Meier will conduct Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade; graduate conducting student Vladimir Kulenovic will conduct Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave); and Peabody/Baltimore Symphony Conducting Fellow Joseph Young will conduct Bartók’s Two Portraits and the U.S. premiere of Fang Man’s Noir. [To hear Audio Program Notes by Joseph Young, visit www.peabody.jhu.edu/events and click on the Oct. 21 listing.] Many graduates of the Peabody program—which offers Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees and the Graduate Performance Diploma—now hold positions with prestigious orchestras in the United States and abroad.
On Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 8:00 pm, the Peabody Trio, Peabody’s ensemble-in-residence since 1987, will present its first concert of the 2008–2009 season. The Trio consists of Peabody faculty artists Seth Knopp, piano, and Violaine Melançon, violin, with Natasha Brofsky, violoncello. The concert also features faculty artist William Sharp, baritone, performing Stephen Coxe’s Blake Songs for baritone and cello with Brofsky. The other works on the program are: Dvořák’s Trio in F minor, Op. 65, Janáček’s Sonata for violin and piano, and Mauricio Kagel’s Trio No. 2.
All three concerts will take place in Peabody’s Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall, 17 East Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore. Tickets for the Peabody Symphony Orchestra and the Peabody Trio concerts are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors, and $5 for students with ID. To reserve, call the Peabody Box Office at 410-659-8100, ext. 2, or visit www.peabody.jhu.edu/events.
About the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University
Located in the heart of Baltimore’s Mount Vernon Cultural District, the Peabody Institute was founded in 1857 as America’s first academy of music by philanthropist George Peabody. Today, Peabody boasts a preeminent faculty, a nurturing, collaborative learning environment, and the academic resources of one of the nation’s leading universities, Johns Hopkins. Through its degree granting Conservatory and its community-based Preparatory music and dance school, Peabody trains musicians and dancers of every age and at every level, from small children to seasoned professionals, from dedicated amateurs to winners of international competitions. Each year, Peabody stages nearly 100 major concerts and performances, ranging from classical to contemporary to jazz, many of them free — a testament to the vision of George Peabody.
