The Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University will welcome acclaimed pianist Yoshikazu Nagai to its piano faculty for the 2021-22 academic year while professor Boris Slutsky is on leave. More…
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Susan Zhang and Concert Truck Residency in Dallas Reply
The Concert Truck, co-directed by Susan Zhang (GPD ’18, Piano), began its Dallas Symphony Orchestra residency on Saturday, November 21 and will continue through Friday, December 18. The free concerts feature performers from the DSO, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts, Dallas Theater Center, and Dallas Black Dance Theatre performing alongside Zhang and co-director Nick Luby.
Richard Goode Joins Peabody Conservatory Faculty Reply
Hailed for music-making of tremendous emotional power, depth, and expressiveness, pianist Richard Goode will join the full-time faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University as Distinguished Artist Faculty beginning in the 2021-22 academic year. He is widely acknowledged as one of today’s leading interpreters of Classical and Romantic music. More…
Thomas Kotcheff Releases New Album Reply
Thomas Kotcheff (BM ’10, Piano) released a new album of Frederic Rzewski’s Songs of Insurrection through Coviello Music Productions. Songs of Insurrection is based on seven songs of protest from various countries and eras. Rzewski takes these melodies as starting points for his own variations. He invites the pianist to conclude each movement with improvisation, which Kotcheff does on movements 1, 3, 4, 6, and 7. Kotcheff was featured in an interview by The New York Times discussing the album.
WFMT Celebrates Life and Legacy of Leon Fleisher Reply
WFMT Chicago will celebrate Leon Fleisher’s life and artistry through the “Exploring Music” program. Starting October 5, the program will rebroadcast a 2018 conversation and music from Fleisher Monday through Friday at 7:00 pm CDT. WFMT provides on demand playback for each episode online.
