2019–20 concert season at Peabody

Wind Faculty Showcase Sunday, February 16, 2020 FROM THE DEAN

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Fred Bronstein February 16, 2020 • 7:30 pm Leith Symington Griswold Hall WIND FACULTY SHOWCASE Marina Piccinini, flute Nicholas Stovall, oboe Jane Marvine, oboe Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet Phillip Kolker, bassoon Brad Balliett, bassoon Robert Rearden, horn Wei-ping Chou, horn Seth Knopp, piano

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770‹1827) Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 4 Allegro con brio Andante Menuetto piu Allegretto and Trio I, Trio II Finale - Presto Marina Piccinini, flute Nicholas Stovall, oboe Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet Robert Rearden, horn

Brad Balliett WORLD PREMIERE Marshlands Marina Piccinini, flute Brad Balliett, bassoon Seth Knopp, piano

Paul Hindemith (1895‹1963) Kleine Kammermusik for Woodwind Quintet, Op. 24, No. 2 Marina Piccinini, flute Jane Marvine, oboe Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet Brad Balliett, bassoon Wei-ping Chou, horn

For your own safety, look for your nearest exit. In case of emergency, walk, do not run to that exit. ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Brad Balliett, bassoon Brad Balliett loves life as a musical omnivore, focusing equal parts of his diverse career on composing, playing bassoon, and teaching artistry. He has been described as “impressive” (The New Yorker), and his bassoon playing as “a saxophone one moment, a ship’s horn the next” ( Times). Balliett has performed with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Music Society of , Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, , Houston Symphony, Ballet, and the International Contemporary Ensemble. He has performed at festivals including the Marlboro, Tanglewood, Stellenbosch, Newport Jazz, and Lucerne Festivals. He is a member of Signal and Metropolis Ensemble, and has performed as a soloist with the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra and the KZN Philharmonic in South Africa. As a composer, Balliett has witnessed and participated in a steady stream of premieres of his orchestral, chamber, choral, opera, and incidental music. Most recently, his oratorio for large chorus and orchestra, co-written with his twin brother Doug, was performed at Carnegie Hall. Balliett is a member of the band/composer-collective Oracle Hysterical, with whom he has released several critically acclaimed albums and produced a number of evening-length works, including a song cycle with the string orchestra A Far Cry and an opera premiered at the Lucerne Festival. With his brother, Brad teaches history courses at Juilliard, gives lectures for Carnegie Hall, and has developed a series of interactive Shakespeare reading parties. As a teaching artist, Balliett regularly leads composition and song-writing workshops in prisons, schools, hospitals, and homeless shelters around the country. This season he is in residence in four maximum security prisons, helping incarcerated men write songs and compose pieces. He is a faculty member at the Peabody Conservatory, the (Evening Division), and Musicambia (Sing Sing Correctional Facility). Raised in Westborough, Mass., Balliett graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 2005, where he studied composition with John Harbison and Robert Levin, and holds a master’s degree from Rice University, where he studied with Benjamin Kamins. He is passionate about Shakespeare, Nabokov, sonnets, and birds. Wei-Ping Chou, horn Praised by for her “consistent, strong” and “smooth and full” horn playing, Wei-ping Chou was the first and only horn player in Juilliard School history to be awarded the artist diploma. A native of Taoyuan, Taiwan, she began playing the horn at the age of 9 and continued her studies at the Idyllwild Arts Academy under Kurt Snyder. She received her bachelor’s degree from the School of Music as a student of Jerome Ashby, and her Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Julie Landsman.

2 Prior to her return to New York in 2011, she was acting assistant principal horn for the San Diego Symphony from 2007-2011. As an active freelancer in New York City, she performed regularly with orchestras and chamber groups, such as Orchestra of St. Luke’s, American Symphony Orchestra, The Knights, Wind Soloists of New York, The Metropolis Ensemble, The Decoda Ensemble, and Genghis Barbie. She can be heard in their newest album Amp It Up. As a chamber musician, she spent many of her summers at the Marlboro Music Festival and performs on Musicians from Marlboro tours. Chou currently holds the second horn position with the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra/Washington National Opera Orchestra. When not playing the horn, she enjoys cooking, baking, crafting, and last but definitely not least, flying trapeze. Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet Clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein is considered one of today’s most exceptional artists. Fiterstein has performed in recital, with distinguished orchestras, and with chamber music ensembles throughout the world. He won first prize at the Carl Nielsen International Clarinet Competition and received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant Award. The Washington Post has described his playing as “dazzling in its spectrum of colors, agility, and range. Every sound he makes is finely measured without inhibiting expressiveness,” and The New York Times described him as “a clarinetist with a warm tone and powerful technique.” A dedicated performer of chamber music, Fiterstein frequently collaborates with distinguished artists and ensembles and regularly performs with the prestigious Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Among the highly regarded artists he has performed with are Daniel Barenboim, Yefim Bronfman, Mitsuko Uchida, Richard Goode, Emanuel Ax, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Pinchas Zukerman, and Steven Isserlis. He is a founder of the Zimro Project, a unique ensemble dedicated to incorporating Jewish art music into chamber music programs. He performed as principal clarinet of the West-East Divan Orchestra at the invitation of Daniel Barenboim and has appeared as guest principal clarinet with the Israel Philharmonic with Zubin Mehta, KBS Orchestra with Yoel Levi, and with the St. Paul and Orpheus Chamber Orchestras. Fiterstein has a prolific recording career and has worked with composers John Corigliano and Osvaldo Golijov and had pieces written for him by Samuel Adler, Mason Bates, Paul Schoenfield, and Chris Brubeck, among others. His most recent recording released by Naxos is a performance of Sean Hickey’s Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra with the St. Petersburg State Academic Symphony. Fiterstein was born in Belarus and immigrated to Israel at the age of 2 with his family. He graduated from the Juilliard School and won first prize at the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Fiterstein is a Bu¨et Crampon and Vandoren Performing Artist. Fiterstein is a clarinet faculty artist and chair of the Woodwinds Department at the Peabody Conservatory.

3 Seth Knopp, piano Pianist Seth Knopp serves on the piano and chamber music faculties of the Peabody Conservatory. In 1983, Knopp met violinist Violaine Melançon forming the Knopp-Melançon Duo, an artistic collaboration which would eventually expand to become the Peabody Trio, winner of the 1989 Naumburg Chamber Music Award and Peabody ensemble-in-residence from 1987 to 2016. In 2000, Knopp was named artistic director of the Yellow Barn Music School and Festival, an international gathering of artists who meet each summer to explore the vast riches of the chamber music repertoire. Knopp has performed in North America, Europe, the Far East, and Middle East with appearances at New York’s Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall, Israel’s Jerusalem Music Center, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. He has conducted master classes at Eastman, San Francisco Conservatory, New York University, Conservatoire de Montreal, Jerusalem Music Center, and Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts. Knopp’s solo and chamber music performances can be heard on the Albany Records, Analekta, Artek, CRI, Koch, and New World Records labels. Knopp studied at the New England Conservatory with Leonard Shure, at the San Francisco Conservatory, where he studied with Nathan Schwartz, and with Leon Fleisher. Phillip Kolker, bassoon Phillip Kolker was Principal Bassoon of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for 38 years, retiring from that position in the fall of 2010. Kolker began his professional playing career at the age of 14 as second bassoon in the Albany Symphony, a job he held until he graduated from high school. In between those last and first jobs, he served as principal in the Milwaukee Symphony, associate principal in the Minnesota Orchestra, and principal in both the Santa Fe (NM) and St. Paul Opera orchestras. Kolker has appeared as soloist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as well as with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, and, internationally, with orchestras in Spain and Taiwan. Conductors he has worked with include Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Sergiu Commissiona, David Zinman, Yuri Temirkanov, Marin Alsop, Leon Fleisher, Eugene Ormandy, , Pierre Monteux, Erich Leinsdorf, Antal Dorati, Howard Hansen, Frederick Fennell, Alexander Schneider, and Jean Martinon. He has performed chamber music throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, appearing with such artists as flutists Robert Willoughby, Timothy Day, and Marina Piccinini; violinist Hilary Hahn; Baroque cellist Anner Bylsma; oboists John Mack and Joseph Turner; English horn player Thomas Stacy; clarinetists Anthony Gigliotti, Steven Barta, Franklin Cohen, and Larry Coombs; and pianists Malcolm Frager and Ann Schein. Kolker is a faculty artist at the Peabody Conservatory, where he also served as Chair of the Department of Orchestral Instruments for over 30 years. Summer 2019 was the ninth year when he hosted the Kolker Moncilovich Bassoon Academy, formerly Peabody Bassoon Week, an intense camp for college

4 and high school-aged bassoon players, as well as for gifted amateurs. The Academy is now held at Master Players Festival and School at the University of Delaware. Kolker has been a visiting Professor at the Eastman School of Music, and has presented master classes at the Curtis Institute, Eastman, the National Orchestral Institute, the Glickman-Popkin Bassoon Camp, where he has also been Guest Faculty, the Interlochen National Music Camp, and in both Korea and Taiwan. He has been a featured recitalist at several International Double Reed Conventions and has served on the Executive Committee of the IDRS. He also continues to freelance regularly throughout the mid-Atlantic region with such groups as the Baltimore Choral Arts Society. Orchestral recordings with the Baltimore Symphony include the Vanguard, Telarc, London, Sony, Argo, and Naxos labels. Jane Marvine, oboe Jane Marvine joined the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as second oboe in 1978 and was appointed to the position of English horn by Yuri Temirkanov in 2000. In addition, she has performed as acting assistant principal oboe with the BSO for extended periods. A native of the Chicago area, Marvine began playing oboe at the age of 10 and was fortunate to grow up in a public school system with an outstanding music program. After three years in the Chicago Youth Orchestra and summers at the National Music Camp of Interlochen Michigan she was accepted to their winter Academy. She majored in composition while playing principal oboe in the Interlochen orchestra and graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy with achievement awards in both. She earned a Bachelor of Music in oboe and a master’s degree in composition from . Her oboe teachers include , Marc Lifschey, Robert Bloom, and Joseph Turner. Marvine studied composition with John Paynter, Alan Stout, and William Karlins. While a student at Northwestern University, Marvine performed on several occasions as English horn with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and also performed as extra oboe with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on several occasions including a tour to Carnegie Hall. She performed as English horn with the Chicago Festival Orchestra and as principal oboe with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and the WGN Artist Showcase orchestra with members of the Chicago Symphony. Marvine concurrently plays principal oboe, oboe d’amore, and English horn with the Baltimore Choral Arts Society Orchestra and frequently performs chamber music with her colleagues in the BSO. She has been a featured soloist with the BSO on oboe, oboe d’amore, and English horn. She has presented solo recitals and master classes at the Peabody Conservatory, Towson University, the Shenandoah Conservatory, Interlochen Arts Academy and Arts Camp, and has been a guest artist for the International Double Reed Society. She is currently a member of the oboe faculty at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University having previously taught at Catholic University, Towson University, and Essex Community College.

5 Marvine has spent almost all of her years with the Baltimore Symphony in the additional role of player representative and is currently serving as the chair of the BSO Players’ Committee. Marvine makes her home in Lutherville, Maryland with her husband of 30 years, James Olin, Co-Principal Trombone of the Baltimore Symphony, and has three children, John, Chad and Hannah. Marina Piccinini, flute Hailed by Gramophone magazine as “the Heifetz of the flute,” Marina Piccinini is that rare, high-caliber artist who is devoted not only to her craft, but also to music education and the creation of programs featuring powerful traditional repertoire and inventive new works. She is an authentically modern voice and 21st century virtuoso, much sought after around the world as a soloist, chamber music collaborator, and recording artist. Her rich artistic tapestry is woven from the multi-national, multi-lingual household in which she grew up, bringing that vibrant spirit and global perspective to all of her cultural and personal endeavors. As a 36th- generation Shaolin Fighting Monk, she relishes an ideology that inspires self-discovery, discipline, finding joy, and having no limits. Known for expanding the repertoire of her instrument, her program o¨erings are among the most extensive of today’s illustrious artists, and she has premiered works by Aaron Jay Kernis, who recently wrote a flute concerto for her, John Harbison, Lukas Foss, Paquito D’Rivera, Marc-Andre Dalbavie, and Yuko Uebayashi, among others. Her appearances as soloist include the Boston, Vienna, Vancouver, Tokyo, Toronto, and National Symphonies, and London, Rotterdam, and Hong Kong Philharmonics, and she has worked with some of the leading conductors of our time, including Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Masur, Pierre Boulez, and Esa-Pekka Salonen. She also appears regularly on major stages around the world with such artists and ensembles as the Tokyo, Brentano, and Takács Quartets; pianists Mitsuko Uchida and Andreas Haefliger; and Tre Voci, her flute, harp, and viola trio; and she can be heard on the Avie, Claves, and ECM labels. She is creator and founder of the Marina Piccinini International Master Classes (MPIMC), in partnership with the New World Symphony. The first flutist to win the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant, she was top prize winner of the CBC Young Performers Competition and Concert Artists Guild International Competition. She is currently on the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory and lives with her family in Vienna and New York. Robert Rearden, horn Robert Rearden joined the National Symphony Orchestra horn section in 2016. He previously served as principal horn of the Florida Orchestra from 2010 to 2016. He has performed regularly as a guest musician with the Cleveland Orchestra since 2004, including multiple recordings and tours of Europe, Asia, and the U.S., and was a member of the New World Symphony from 2006 to 2010. He also appeared frequently as guest principal horn of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra from 2010 to 2015. Rearden has performed with the , San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, All-Star Orchestra, Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, and with the Mainly Mozart, Britt, Artosphere, Steamboat Springs, Spoleto USA, and Eastern music festival orchestras. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of South Carolina as a student of Robert Pruzin and earned a Master of Music degree and artist diploma at the Cleveland Institute of Music as a student of Eli Epstein and Richard Solis. He also studied with Julie Landsman and with David Wakefield. He was a fellowship recipient at Tanglewood and the Aspen Music Festival. While with the Florida Orchestra, Rearden appeared as a soloist on several occasions, and was also a featured soloist on the orchestra’s most recent recording. He was a featured artist at the 2017 Southeast Horn Workshop, and has also taught master classes in Havana, Cuba, at the universities of Houston and South Florida, and at the Kent-Blossom and Eastern music festivals. Rearden teaches horn at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. Nicholas Stovall, oboe Nicholas Stovall has served principal oboe of the National Symphony Orchestra since September 2008 and made his solo debut with the orchestra in December 2014. In addition to regular appearances with the Kennedy Center Chamber Players, Stovall has frequently collaborated with pianist Christoph Eschenbach in chamber music performances. He is a member of the Washington-based Eclipse Chamber Orchestra and has been featured as soloist in concertos of Vaughan Williams, J.S. Bach, and Jean Francaix with that ensemble. He has also performed as guest principal oboe with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Stovall has taught and performed at the Aspen Music Festival and School, Indiana University, the Interlochen Center for the Arts, and the Round Top Festival-Institute in Texas. He is a former faculty member of the Bard College Conservatory of Music and currently teaches at the Catholic University of America, as well as in the National Symphony’s Youth Fellowship Program and Summer Music Institute. After completing studies at the Interlochen Arts Academy with Daniel Stolper, he earned degrees at the Cleveland Institute of Music and The Juilliard School as a student of John Mack, Elaine Douvas, and Nathan Hughes. CONCERTMASTER’S CIRCLE DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE D.L. Langdon THE GEORGE PEABODY SOCIETY $5,000$9,999 $1,000$2,499 Linda and Julian Lapides $1.4 million and above ALH Foundation Inc Iris Albstein Cecile and Ulysses Lupien Stanley Altan Lisa Alexander Carol Macht We recognize those philanthropic visionaries whose lifetime cumulative giving Aurelia Bolton Annapolis Musicians Fund Valerie and Michael Marcus has matched or exceeded George Peabody’s founding gift of $. million. William R. Brody for Musicians Deborah and Paul Mathews Their generosity has expanded and transformed the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Anonymous Carol and Paul Matlin The names are ordered by the date when they joined this elite group of donors. Liz and Fred Bronstein Lydia Duff Pod and Charles Duff Avedis Zildjian Company Audrey McCallum George Peabody Elizabeth J. and Richard W. Case John L. Due Maria Figueroa Bodner+ Susan Baisley Cynthia and Michael McKee Sidney M. Friedberg Florence H. and Charles R. Austrian Taylor A. Hanex Sandra Levi Gerstung Baltimore Homecoming Inc. Terry Meiselman Shuch and Charitable Trust Michael R. Bloomberg Rheda Becker and Neal Meiselman Isidore Grossman Foundation Carol and Steven Batoff The Blaustein-Rosenberg- Anonymous Robert E. Meyerhoff Sharon and Andrew Nickol Thalheimer Philanthropic Group Barbara S. Hawkins, Ph.D. Anders V. Borge Tristan W. Rhodes Laifun Chung and Ted Kotcheff Eleanor Simon and Patrick O’Neall Eric and Edith Friedheim Hecht-Levi Foundation Victoria Bradley and Hilda P. and Douglas S. Goodwin Sandra Levi Gerstung and Joseph Coons Elizabeth and Jonathan Peress Loretta Ver Valen the Levi Family Fund II of the Jephson Educational Trusts Claire S. and Allan D. Jensen Susan and John Brantley Michael Pham Arabella Leith Baltimore Community Foundation Koret Foundation Marc C. von May Helene Breazeale Anthony Piccolo Symington Griswold Cynthia and Paul Lorraine Barbara Leons Thomas H. Powell Anne Brodsky Townsend and Kimberly Plant Wendy G. Griswold and Nancy S. Grasmick Clara Juwon Ohr Benjamin H. Griswold IV Anonymous Alice and Lawrence Brown Thomas Pozefsky Peabody Institute Fund of The Baltimore Community Foundation Phyllis Bryn-Julson and Joseph Rooney and Ian Tresselt Donald Sutherland Edythe and Charles Rock Vivian Adelberg and David Rudow Annamaria Calabro and Judi and Burr Short THE 201819 FRIEDBERG SOCIETY Patricia Skurzynski Shankar Subramaniam Thomas Silverman This society is named in honor of Sidney and Miriam Friedberg, whose generosity launched a new era Lisa and Christopher Smith Jr. Mary Morgan and David Callard Barbara and Joseph Skillman of philanthropic leadership at the Peabody Institute. Friedberg Society donors sustain and enhance Speedwell Foundation Carol Cannon Edith Stern and Allan Spradling Peabody by giving $, or more over the course of a fiscal year. The donors listed below have made Anne Luetkemeyer Stone The Denise Caves Trust outright gifts or pledges at the Friedberg Society level between July , ‡ ˆ, and June ‰ , ‡ Š. Angela and Daniel Taylor Sharon and Edwin S. Toporek L. Chinsoo Cho Sheila and Erick Vail CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE MAESTRO’S CIRCLE Laura and Edward Asher Barbara and Martin Wasserman Heasoon and Young Chung Beverly and Richard Weber* $100,000 AND ABOVE $25,000$49,999 Peggy and Yale Gordon Kathleen Whalen and Charitable Trust PRINCIPAL’S CIRCLE Frederick Cohen Susan Weiss, Ph.D. Anonymous Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Amy Gould and Matthew Polk Jr. $2,500$4,999 Sarah Whalen-Cohen and Susan Wolman Barbara and Thomas Bozzuto Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Michael Greenebaum the Harry & Helen Cohen Ireneus Bohdan Yaromyr Zuk Jack R. Byrd* Foundation, Inc. Frances and George Alderson Charitable Foundation Wilda Heiss Jane and Larry Droppa Brown Advisory Inc. Marin Alsop Joanna Coogan Nina Houghton Margaret and Robert Fisher Marian Buck-Lew* Alsop Family Foundation Barbara J. and William H. Cowie Jr. Michiko and Jay Jones Nancy Grasmick Doris Davis Abra Bush Ruth and Arno* Drucker Christopher Kovalchick Wendy and Benjamin Griswold IV Jane W.I. and Larry D. Droppa Constance Caplan Hildegard and Richard Eliasberg Judith and Randall Krum The Hearst Foundations Taylor Hanex Lewis Diuguid Ernst & Young Foundation++ Abbe Levin * Deceased J. Michael Hemmer and Laifun Chung and Ted Kotcheff Abigail Ochs and Ryan Frederick Kimberly and Donald Evans Jan and Kris Loeber + In-Kind Gift Lorraine Raphael Hank Sopher Kathryn and Jon Inglefield Lisa Flanagan and Edwin Monuki Catharine and Charles McClure ++ Matching Gift Claire and Allan Jensen Sonja Inglefield Carole and Hang Fung VIRTUOSO’S CIRCLE Bruce McEver The Estate of C. Albert Kuper III* Johnson & Johnson Family Patricia Gallagher $10,000$24,999 Maria and Vanda McMurtry of Companies++ The Estate of Paul McAdam* Wendy and Robert Ginsburg A. Wallace Moore* Patricia E. Kauffman Mary and James Miller Laura B. Garvin-Asher and Google Inc.++ Edward J. Asher Misha Petkevich+ The Links, Inc. Columbia Clarence and Audrey Plitt Trust Suruchi Mohan and Prabhat Goyal Liza Bailey and Michael Musgrave Presser Foundation Maryland Chapter Carolyn J. and Mark J. Sienkiewicz Janet and Tyrone Greive Rheda Becker Rockjensen Foundation Cynthia and Paul Lorraine Halle Family Foundation COMPOSER’S CIRCLE Christina M. Holzapfel and Roland Corporation U.S.+ Thomas MacCracken Ruby and Robert Wesley Hearn $50,000$99,999 William Bradshaw Barbara and David Roux Barbara and John McDaniel Hyun Joo Park and Gary Melick Lynnie and Ian Hoffman Robert Austrian* Christine and Robert Schmitz Sangyun Choung Lloyd E. Mitchell Foundation Trust Daniel Holik The Brookby Foundation Adam G. Shapiro Lynne Church and James Skiles Donald Regier Cynthia and Roland* Hoover Ann Schein Carlyss John W. Skouge, M.D. The Charles Delmar Foundation Turner B. and Judith R. Smith Su-Ting Hsu Diantha Johnson Solomon H. Snyder, M.D. Helen P. Denit Charitable Trust Linda and Richard Snurr Nancy and Robert Huber Jill McGovern T. Rowe Price Foundation Estelle Dennis Scholarship Trust Martha Stein Donna and Eric Kahn John Merrill* Trust For Mutual Understanding Slyvia Dodd* Marguerite VillaSanta Nancy Kass and Sean Tunis Thomas Powell Esther C. Viros Evergreen House Foundation Inc. Margaret and Patrick Walsh Harris Kempner Jr. Reba A. Will Foundation Wells Fargo Foundation Ira Fader Jr. Jennifer Widom and Alex Aiken Irene Kitagawa and Stephen McCall Marc von May Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Edith Hall Friedheim and the Children of Baltimore City the Eric Friedheim Foundation The students, faculty, and sta‹ of the Peabody Institute would also like to acknowledge the more than Shirley S. L. Yang , dedicated donors whose gifts of $ to $ŠŠŠ helped to realize Peabody’s ‡ ˆ–Š academic year. CONCERTMASTER’S CIRCLE DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE D.L. Langdon THE GEORGE PEABODY SOCIETY $5,000$9,999 $1,000$2,499 Linda and Julian Lapides $1.4 million and above ALH Foundation Inc Iris Albstein Cecile and Ulysses Lupien Stanley Altan Lisa Alexander Carol Macht We recognize those philanthropic visionaries whose lifetime cumulative giving Aurelia Bolton Annapolis Musicians Fund Valerie and Michael Marcus has matched or exceeded George Peabody’s founding gift of $. million. William R. Brody for Musicians Deborah and Paul Mathews Their generosity has expanded and transformed the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Anonymous Carol and Paul Matlin The names are ordered by the date when they joined this elite group of donors. Liz and Fred Bronstein Lydia Duff Pod and Charles Duff Avedis Zildjian Company Audrey McCallum George Peabody Elizabeth J. and Richard W. Case John L. Due Maria Figueroa Bodner+ Susan Baisley Cynthia and Michael McKee Sidney M. Friedberg Florence H. and Charles R. Austrian Taylor A. Hanex Sandra Levi Gerstung Baltimore Homecoming Inc. Terry Meiselman Shuch and Charitable Trust Michael R. Bloomberg Rheda Becker and Neal Meiselman Isidore Grossman Foundation Carol and Steven Batoff The Blaustein-Rosenberg- Anonymous Robert E. Meyerhoff Sharon and Andrew Nickol Thalheimer Philanthropic Group Barbara S. Hawkins, Ph.D. Anders V. Borge Tristan W. Rhodes Laifun Chung and Ted Kotcheff Eleanor Simon and Patrick O’Neall Eric and Edith Friedheim Hecht-Levi Foundation Victoria Bradley and Hilda P. and Douglas S. Goodwin Sandra Levi Gerstung and Joseph Coons Elizabeth and Jonathan Peress Loretta Ver Valen the Levi Family Fund II of the Jephson Educational Trusts Claire S. and Allan D. Jensen Susan and John Brantley Michael Pham Arabella Leith Baltimore Community Foundation Koret Foundation Marc C. von May Helene Breazeale Anthony Piccolo Symington Griswold Cynthia and Paul Lorraine Barbara Leons Thomas H. Powell Anne Brodsky Townsend and Kimberly Plant Wendy G. Griswold and Nancy S. Grasmick Clara Juwon Ohr Benjamin H. Griswold IV Anonymous Alice and Lawrence Brown Thomas Pozefsky Peabody Institute Fund of The Baltimore Community Foundation Phyllis Bryn-Julson and Joseph Rooney and Ian Tresselt Donald Sutherland Edythe and Charles Rock Vivian Adelberg and David Rudow Annamaria Calabro and Judi and Burr Short THE 201819 FRIEDBERG SOCIETY Patricia Skurzynski Shankar Subramaniam Thomas Silverman This society is named in honor of Sidney and Miriam Friedberg, whose generosity launched a new era Lisa and Christopher Smith Jr. Mary Morgan and David Callard Barbara and Joseph Skillman of philanthropic leadership at the Peabody Institute. Friedberg Society donors sustain and enhance Speedwell Foundation Carol Cannon Edith Stern and Allan Spradling Peabody by giving $, or more over the course of a fiscal year. The donors listed below have made Anne Luetkemeyer Stone The Denise Caves Trust outright gifts or pledges at the Friedberg Society level between July , ‡ ˆ, and June ‰ , ‡ Š. Angela and Daniel Taylor Sharon and Edwin S. Toporek L. Chinsoo Cho Sheila and Erick Vail CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE MAESTRO’S CIRCLE Laura and Edward Asher Barbara and Martin Wasserman Heasoon and Young Chung Beverly and Richard Weber* $100,000 AND ABOVE $25,000$49,999 Peggy and Yale Gordon Kathleen Whalen and Charitable Trust PRINCIPAL’S CIRCLE Frederick Cohen Susan Weiss, Ph.D. Anonymous Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Amy Gould and Matthew Polk Jr. $2,500$4,999 Sarah Whalen-Cohen and Susan Wolman Barbara and Thomas Bozzuto Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Michael Greenebaum the Harry & Helen Cohen Ireneus Bohdan Yaromyr Zuk Jack R. Byrd* Foundation, Inc. Frances and George Alderson Charitable Foundation Wilda Heiss Jane and Larry Droppa Brown Advisory Inc. Marin Alsop Joanna Coogan Nina Houghton Margaret and Robert Fisher Marian Buck-Lew* Alsop Family Foundation Barbara J. and William H. Cowie Jr. Michiko and Jay Jones Nancy Grasmick Doris Davis Abra Bush Ruth and Arno* Drucker Christopher Kovalchick Wendy and Benjamin Griswold IV Jane W.I. and Larry D. Droppa Constance Caplan Hildegard and Richard Eliasberg Judith and Randall Krum The Hearst Foundations Taylor Hanex Lewis Diuguid Ernst & Young Foundation++ Abbe Levin * Deceased J. Michael Hemmer and Laifun Chung and Ted Kotcheff Abigail Ochs and Ryan Frederick Kimberly and Donald Evans Jan and Kris Loeber + In-Kind Gift Lorraine Raphael Hank Sopher Kathryn and Jon Inglefield Lisa Flanagan and Edwin Monuki Catharine and Charles McClure ++ Matching Gift Claire and Allan Jensen Sonja Inglefield Carole and Hang Fung VIRTUOSO’S CIRCLE Bruce McEver The Estate of C. Albert Kuper III* Johnson & Johnson Family Patricia Gallagher $10,000$24,999 Maria and Vanda McMurtry of Companies++ The Estate of Paul McAdam* Wendy and Robert Ginsburg A. Wallace Moore* Patricia E. Kauffman Mary and James Miller Laura B. Garvin-Asher and Google Inc.++ Edward J. Asher Misha Petkevich+ The Links, Inc. Columbia Clarence and Audrey Plitt Trust Suruchi Mohan and Prabhat Goyal Liza Bailey and Michael Musgrave Presser Foundation Maryland Chapter Carolyn J. and Mark J. Sienkiewicz Janet and Tyrone Greive Rheda Becker Rockjensen Foundation Cynthia and Paul Lorraine Halle Family Foundation COMPOSER’S CIRCLE Christina M. Holzapfel and Roland Corporation U.S.+ Thomas MacCracken Ruby and Robert Wesley Hearn $50,000$99,999 William Bradshaw Barbara and David Roux Barbara and John McDaniel Hyun Joo Park and Gary Melick Lynnie and Ian Hoffman Robert Austrian* Christine and Robert Schmitz Sangyun Choung Lloyd E. Mitchell Foundation Trust Daniel Holik The Brookby Foundation Adam G. Shapiro Lynne Church and James Skiles Donald Regier Cynthia and Roland* Hoover Ann Schein Carlyss John W. Skouge, M.D. The Charles Delmar Foundation Turner B. and Judith R. Smith Su-Ting Hsu Diantha Johnson Solomon H. Snyder, M.D. Helen P. Denit Charitable Trust Linda and Richard Snurr Nancy and Robert Huber Jill McGovern T. Rowe Price Foundation Estelle Dennis Scholarship Trust Martha Stein Donna and Eric Kahn John Merrill* Trust For Mutual Understanding Slyvia Dodd* Marguerite VillaSanta Nancy Kass and Sean Tunis Thomas Powell Esther C. Viros Evergreen House Foundation Inc. Margaret and Patrick Walsh Harris Kempner Jr. Reba A. Will Foundation Wells Fargo Foundation Ira Fader Jr. Jennifer Widom and Alex Aiken Irene Kitagawa and Stephen McCall Marc von May Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Edith Hall Friedheim and the Children of Baltimore City the Eric Friedheim Foundation The students, faculty, and sta‹ of the Peabody Institute would also like to acknowledge the more than Shirley S. L. Yang , dedicated donors whose gifts of $ to $ŠŠŠ helped to realize Peabody’s ‡ ˆ–Š academic year. JOHNS HOPKINS PEABODY INSTITUTE ADVISORY BOARD UNIVERSITY Rheda Becker Jill E. McGovern, Chair ADMINISTRATION Paula E. Boggs Christine Rutt Schmitz Ronald J. Daniels Barbara M. Bozzuto Solomon H. Snyder President Richard Davison Ci-Ying Sun Sunil Kumar Larry D. Droppa Marc von May Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic AŠairs Leon Fleisher David L. Warnock Nancy S. Grasmick, Vice Chair Shirley S. L. Yang Michael Greenebaum PEABODY INSTITUTE EMERITUS MEMBERS ADMINISTRATION Allan D. Jensen Michiko S. Jones Pilar Bradshaw Fred Bronstein Dean Laifun Chung KotcheŠ Benjamin H. Griswold IV Christopher Kovalchick Taylor A. Hanex Susan Baisley Interim Associate Dean Abbe Levin Turner B. Smith for External Relations Abra Bush Senior Associate Dean of Institute Studies Sarah Hoover Associate Dean for Innovation, Interdisciplinary Partnerships, and Community Initiatives Townsend Plant Associate Dean for Enrollment and Student Life Joe Rooney Associate Dean for Finance and Administration

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