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ZHEN QIN
Assistant Professor of Musicology DAVID GUTKIN and Assistant Professor of Composition FELIPE LARA are 2020 awardees of the Johns Hopkins Catalyst Awards. Gutkin’s award will support his work to complete a book exploring the New York avant-garde’s influence on opera and operatic form. Lara’s award will support the creation of Chambered Spirals, a new 30-minute work for large mixed chamber ensemble and its premiere, at Peabody, by New York’s Talea Ensemble. The work will be the last remaining piece to complete a largescale cycle titled Ciclo Concertante.
Alan Choo
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David Gutkin (left) and Felipe Lara (right)
FALL 2020
SAHUN SAM HONG (GPD ’15, MM ’17, Piano), a DMA piano candidate, has been awarded a cash prize of $50,000 as one of the finalists of the 2021 American Pianists Awards. Rather than wait for the winner to be crowned in June 2021, the American Pianists Association decided to award the five finalists a year early. The organization saw the need for these artists to receive early assistance since they are not currently performing due to COVID-19. The competition will culminate with a celebratory weekend June 25–27, 2021, in Indianapolis, at which time the winner of the Christel DeHaan Classical Fellowship will be announced.
JILL JOHNSON
OPERA America has announced that nine companies will be awarded $100,000 in grants for commissioning operas by female composers. The recipients include Beth Morrison Projects for Composition JOACHIM THEODORE LIM Professor DU YUN’s In (MM ’16, Percussion), Our Daughter’s Eyes, QIN YING TAN (MM ’10, a one-man opera Piano; MM ’12, featuring baritone Harpsichord; MM ’13, Nathan Gunn. It is slated Musicology), DMA to appear in the 2021 candidate TZU-JOU YEH PROTOTYPE Festival (MM ’15, GPD ’17, Cello), followed by a West CHEN ZHANGYI (MM ’11, Coast premiere with LA DMA ’15, Composition, Opera. MM ’15, Music Theory Pedagogy), and RACHEL HO, who was a flute exchange student, have formed Singapore’s first Baroque orchestra, Red Dot Baroque.
HUGO GLENDINNING
Inspired by the richness of Baroque music and close friendships, ALAN CHOO (MM ’14, Violin, Early Music; GPD ’16, Violin), BRENDA KOH (MM ’19, Violin), GABRIEL LEE (MM ’17, Violin), CHERYL LIM (DMA ’14, Flute),
AMY BETH KIRSTEN (DMA ’10,
Composition) was selected as one of four composers to receive a $10,000 Arts and Letters Award in Music, which honors outstanding artistic achievement and acknowledges composers who have arrived at their own voice.
J. HENRY FAIR
Composer Du Yun’s In Our Daughter’s Eyes received a grant from OPERA America.
