Michael Kaiser Receives George Peabody Medal
On Thursday, May 21, the Peabody Conservatory held its 127th graduation ceremony, conferring 80 undergraduate degrees and 152 graduate degrees on 221 students. The graduates were from 32 states, the District of Columbia, and 13 countries, including Canada, China, South Korea, Taiwan, and Turkey. Michael M. Kaiser (pictured), president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, was awarded the 2009 George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music in America and served as graduation speaker. Also at the ceremony, piano faculty member Yong Hi Moon received the 2009 Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award. Lindsay Thompson (BM '09, Voice) and Dawson Hull (MM '09, Piano) performed two works by Aaron Copland, Pastorale and “Laurie's Song” from The Tender Land, and the Jolley twins — Noble Jolley, Jr. (BM '09, Jazz Piano) and Nathan Jolley (BM '09, Jazz Percussion) — performed Where do we go from here? written by their father Noble Jolley, Sr.
Peabody Events
Faculty artist Marina Piccinini, flute, will perform works by Bach, Roussel, Poulenc, Jolivet, and Carter with Colette Valentine, piano, and Hyunah Yu, soprano, on Thursday, June 4, at 7:30 pm in Leith Symington Griswold Hall. To purchase tickets ($45) for the recital, which benefits the scholarship fund for the Marina Piccinini International Flute Master Classes, call 410-659-8100, ext. 1204.
Ronald Pearl, guitar, will perform works by Bach, Carlevaro, and Hand, arrangements of traditional melodies, and one of his own pieces on Saturday, June 6, at 8:00 pm in Leith Symington Griswold Hall. Tickets ($30, $25 for Preparatory students and parents) for the recital, which benefits the Peabody Preparatory guitar department, include a Day Pass to Guitar Day on Sunday, June 7. For information, visit www.peabody.jhu.edu/guitarday.
The Peabody Preparatory will hold its 25th Annual Awards Ceremony on Sunday, June 7, at 3:00 pm in Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall to recognize student achievements and honor the 2009 Excellence in Teaching Award recipients, Bai-Chi Chen and Bradley Permenter. Chen has been on the Preparatory cello faculty since 1990. Permenter, who received his master's degree from the Peabody Conservatory, is the accompanist and assistant director of the Peabody Children's Chorus.
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Soprano Phyllis Bryn-Julson, who chairs the Peabody Conservatory voice department, will receive the American Composers Alliance Laurel Leaf Award at the ACA Summer Music Festival, June 17-20, in New York.
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Jennifer Holbrook (MM '09, Voice) has won this year's Russell C. Wonderlic Competition, a competition run by Baltimore's Community Concerts at Second that alternates annually between voice and piano.
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Violinist Alan Zhang, 13, won First Place in the H. Stevens Brewster, Jr. Memorial Competition for Strings and performed in the winners concert on May 16. The competition is for students in grades 7-9 who live in Washington, D.C., and Maryland.
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Summer at the Preparatory
The Preparatory’s six-week Summer session begins Friday, June 19, with music instruction for children and adults available in Baltimore, Towson, Ellicott City, and Annapolis. Dance instruction is available in Baltimore and Towson. Visit www.peabody.jhu.edu/register for details, and to register online.
New Faculty CDs
 Mozart's Blue Dreams & Other Crossover Fantasies
With the Burgstaller Martingon 4, trumpeter Joe Burgstaller performs crossover versions of Mozart and Chopin, and works by Bolling, Corea, Ellington, and Piazzolla.
 The Jewish Soul
Cellist Amit Peled and accompanist Eli Kalman perform music by Jewish composers, including Bloch, Bruch, Stutschewsky, and Zehavi.
Nicholas Maw
1935-2009
 British composer Nicholas Maw, a member of the Peabody Conservatory faculty from 1998 to 2008, died of heart failure on May 19. He was 73. Describing Maw as "a mighty composer and pedagogue," Peabody Institute Director Jeffrey Sharkey said, "Nicholas built Peabody's Composition Department into one of the world's most prominent while continuing to compose major works, including his opera Sophie's Choice."
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