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Hilary Hahn is a Preparatory alumna and received the Award of Excellence from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
Violinist and Preparatory alumna HILARY HAHN was presented the Award of Excellence at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s second annual Women in Classical Music Symposium in November. The threetime Grammy Award winner was also the featured soloist in the symposium’s opening concert, performing Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major with the DSO under the baton of Director of Graduate Conducting MARIN ALSOP.
Undergraduate Recording Arts and Sciences student TÉA MOTTOLESE was selected as the 2020 Mary Lea Simpson Memorial Scholarship recipient by the Audio Engineering Society Education Foundation. The competitive scholarship provides full tuition for a final year of studies to an undergraduate student entering senior year at a North American college or university audio engineering/ recording arts program.
JOSEPH YOUNG (AD ’09,
Conducting), Peabody’s Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Artistic Director of Ensembles, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of New Music USA. Of his appointment, he said, “during this very significant time in our musical history, I hope to offer my diverse perspectives as an educator and music director while New Music USA continues to look at new areas for growth.”
CHRIS HARTLOVE
Widely acknowledged as one of today’s leading interpreters of Classical and Romantic music, pianist RICHARD GOODE will join the full-time faculty of the Peabody Conservatory as Distinguished Artist Faculty beginning in the 2021–22 academic year. Goode has for many years presented an annual master class at Peabody, and he is scheduled to conduct master classes again this spring, ahead of assuming his more formal role on the faculty.
STEVE RISKIND
CIERRA BYRD (MM ’20, Voice) has joined the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program for the 2020–21 season. Founded in 1980, the program uses the Met’s unique resources to identify and develop talented young artists for major careers in opera. It provides specialized training in music, language, dramatic coaching, and movement, along with an annual stipend and funding for continued private lessons. (See related story, p. 21.)
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