MARIANNA BUSCHING

From Ms. Busching:

" Hello! Besides all the official information in my professional biography, there are other things you might like to know about me (such as: I DO have a life!:) Music has been with me since about th age of two when I sang descants with my mother while she gave me my bath. Now that I'm grown up, I've branched out a little, such as getting married and having three children who are the greatest kids ever (although they are fully grown and independent). My oldest son, Paul, is vice-president of Hill-Dale Construction in Illinois. My daughter, Sharon, is on the Hopkins Advanced Camera for Survey Hubble telescope team. My youngest son is a graduate from the Mayo Clinic with a Master's degree in Physical Therapy. He and his wife are also mountain biking champions in the Dakotas. (You wouldn't guess I was proud of them!)

My main hobby has alwasy been writing poetry, and at last some of it is getting published. I receive no income from this enterprise yet, but it is nice to see one's efforts in this specialty in print.

Last words for now: I am an extremely happy person and wouldn't work any other place than at Peabody. We have an atmosphere that I look forward to being a part of every day.

BIOGRAPHY

A native of Minnesota, mezzo-soprano MARIANNA BUSCHING made her Carnegie Hall debut singing the part of Braengane in Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde". Since then, she has performed with virtually every major music organization in Washington, D.C., including the National Symphony and the Folger Consort, and has appeared at the Kennedy Center countless times in works of Bach, Mendelssohn, and Copland. She has sung with orchestra, choruses and opera companies throughout the nation, including the Milwaukee Symphony, the Tulsa Symphony, the Atlanta Lyric Opera Company, and accompanied the Washington Bach Consort to Germany as alto soloist in Bach's "Mass in B Minor".

Overseas, she has performed in England, Poland, and the Czech Republic in concert and as soloist with the Columbia Pro Cantare. Several reknowned composers in the Washington area have composed songs and song cycles exclusively for her voice. One such cycle, using Ms. Busching's own poetry, was set to music by Edwin Earle Ferguson and premiered at the Rewick Gallery in Washington.

A popular guest artist at music festivals, she has sung at the Baldwin-Wallace Bach Festival in Cleveland, the Brevard Music Festival and the Winter Park Festival in Florida, among others, singing works from the Bach "Passions" to Verdi's "Requiem".

She has recorded on Columbia Masterworks and Centaur Records, the most recent being the recording of 56 songs by German composer Hans Pfitzner aon the Centaur labe.

She has been on the vocal faculty of the Peabody Institute for fourteen years, and in March 2004 will be teaching and singing at the International Conference on Vocal Arts and Pedagogy in Taiwan.

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