The Johns Hopkins Billie Holiday Center for the Liberation Arts holds its sixth annual Jazz in the Square concert event, Saturday, September 7, 2024, from 2:00 to 6:00 pm EDT at Lafayette Square, Lafayette and Arlington streets, in West Baltimore. Once again, Peabody faculty artists are featured performers: Nasar Abadey and his quartet, featuring Sean […]
Trombonist, composer and Peabody Jazz graduate student Spencer Merk—winner of the U.S. Naval Academy Band’s 2023 Call for Scores competition for “Perry’s Ferry”— leads a combo of his Jazz Studies peers for the first installment of our weekly Friday Noon:30 Recital Series. Merk is joined by fellow second-year graduate students Emerson Borg (trumpet, flugelhorn) and Andrew […]
Piecing the Patronage Puzzle Together: Musical Resilience in the Thar Desert and Beyond
This program is a tribute to Rebecca Clarke (1886–1979), one of the 20th century’s most remarkable, yet underappreciated composers. Featuring her celebrated Viola Sonata alongside two early Violin Sonatas, the concert offers a glimpse into her evolving artistic journey. Clarke, a composer and violist, overcame significant obstacles in a male-dominated field, creating works of extraordinary […]
Franz Schubert: Sonata in A Major, D 664 Allegro moderato Andante Allegro Taylor Wang Franz Liszt: Après une lecture du Dante - Fantasia quasi Sonata JunHwi Cho
The Peabody Organ faculty are excited to welcome Frédéric Blanc for an organ masterclass at Church of the Redeemer on Saturday, September 21 at 10:00am. Blanc serves as titular organist of the great Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Church of Notre-Dame d’Auteuil, Paris. He is a member of the Organ Commission for the City of Paris, […]
Annie Fullard with Cavani String Quartet
With generous funding from the Serge Koussevitzy prize (Library of Congress) and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, there is a free concert at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC involving two premieres by Peabody faculty members: Sky Macklay and Alyssa Weinberg. Macklay’s new work is the recipient of […]
Annie Fullard with Cavani String Quartet and Michael Kannen
With the support of a generous grant from the Nexus Awards, Dr. Felipe Lara, Pulitzer Prize Finalist for 2024 and Associate Professor and Chair of Composition at The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, will lead Polyaspora, a five-day contemporary music festival, at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C. in fall […]
Black, Right, Left, White: Eminem, Masculine Virtues, and the Limits of Political Crossover
This program features seven newly composed premieres by Peabody Conservatory students, scored for solo instruments and chamber ensembles.
In tandem with the publication of the bilingual English/German edited volume bearing the same name, edited by Harald Kisiedu and George E. Lewis, this program presents sonically audacious new music by Nicole Mitchell, Jeffrey Mumford, Andile Khumalo, Leila Adu-Gilmore, and Tebogo Monnakgotla.
This program features today’s leading musical voices of the Brazilian diaspora and explores the complexities and intersections of identity, race, history and cultural ethos from within a Brazilian framing. Includes works by Felipe Lara, Jocy de Oliveira, Igor Santos, Marcos Balter, Arthur Kampela, and Michelle Agnes. Pre-Concert Talk with Dr. Alejandro L. Madrid from Harvard […]
The Baltimore-based ensemble Mind on Fire, co-founded by artistic director Allison Clendaniel (BM ’14, Voice) and executive director James David Young (DMA ’14, Composition), presents the world premiere of and, we, each—the new opera by composer and faculty artist Michael Hersch (BM ’95, MM ’97, Composition) with a libretto by poet Shane McCrae—September 28 and […]
Explore the unknown reaches of space with the World Premiere of Baltimore-based composer Alexandra Gardner's (MM '97, Composition) new saxophone concerto - Time Unfolding. Featuring the virtuosic playing of our own Doug O'Connor, the piece explores recent discoveries of NASA's James Webb Telescope and looks back in time at the formation of the early universe. Additional […]
Shah Sadikov Doctor of Musical Arts Conducting Fang-Ju Kuo Graduate Performance Diploma Conducting
Winchendon Music Festival, headed by Andrew Arceci (BM ’08, Double Bass, Viola da Gamba), returns to Massachusetts September 25 through 29 including a performance on Sunday, September 29 at 7:00 pm by Arceci and WMF artists at the Murdock-Whitney House. All programs are free to the community.
The icarus Quartet, cofounded by Matt Keown (‘17, Percussion) and faculty artist Jeff Stern (MM ’14, Percussion), opens the Secret Artists Series 2024-25 season with its new Bartok Reborn program, featuring the Bartok Sonata for Two Piano and Percussion and three commissioned pieces by Martin Bresnick, Viet Cuong (BM ’11, MM ’12, Composition), and Pulitzer […]
Faculty artist William Sharp performs as part of the Charles Ives at 150: Music, Imagination, and American Culture festival at Indiana University Bloomington September 30 through October 8. All festival events are free, but registration is required.
Explore the unknown reaches of space with the World Premiere of Baltimore-based composer Alexandra Gardner's (MM '97, Composition) new saxophone concerto - Time Unfolding. Featuring the virtuosic playing of our own Doug O'Connor, the piece explores recent discoveries of NASA's James Webb Telescope and looks back in time at the formation of the early universe. Additional […]
A program featuring new works for bassoon, including works by incarcerated composers. Brad Balliett, bassoon with Bryan Young, bassoon Sam Suggs, bass Mikael Darmanie, piano
The Venezuelan Jazz Collective, led by Jazz Faculty Fran Vielma, performs at Blues Alley Jazz Club on Wednesday, October 2 at 7:00 pm and 9:30 pm. The star-studded ensemble will perform the East Coast premiere of "Common Grounds," a suite commissioned by Chamber Music America-New Jazz Works that explores the rich connection between Venezuelan music […]
Beth Willer, Conductor Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 39 David Lang: the little match girl passion
Joseph Young, Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Artistic Director of Ensembles, Conductor Tina O’Malley, Soprano Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade in A minor Darius Milhaud: Quatre Chansons de Ronsard Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 38, “Spring”
The Ann Street Trio, including alumni Katlyn DeGraw (BM '09, Cello) and Hui-Chuan Chen (MM ’06, DMA ’14, Piano), perform as part of the Spire Series on October 4 at First and Franklin. Jason Kissel (DMA ’07, Organ) is the artistic director of The Spire Series.
Joseph Young, Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Artistic Director of Ensembles, Conductor Silvestre Revueltas: Sensemayá Claude Debussy: Petite Suite Franz Schubert: Symphony in B minor, D. 759, “Unfinished” Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco: Overture