THE 2018–19 CONCERT SEASON at PEABODY Vadim Gluzman and Friends Friday, April 12, 2019

THE 2018–19 CONCERT SEASON AT PEABODY Vadim Gluzman and Friends Friday, April 12, 2019

VADIM GLUZMAN VIOLIN WITH ANGELA YOFFE PIANO and Students and Faculty of the Peabody Conservatory

Sergei Prokoﬁev (1891–1953) Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34, for Clarinet, String Quartet, and Piano Chadwick Thomas, clarinet Vadim Gluzman, violin Orest Smovzh, violin Josef Fischer, viola Marcella Kolacki, violoncello Angela Yoe, piano

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) Sonata in F major, Op. 24, for Violin and Piano, “Spring” I. Allegro

II. Adagio molto espressivo Friday, | April 12, 2019 III. Scherzo. Allegro molto IV. Rondo. Allegro ma non troppo Vadim Gluzman, violin Angela Yoe, piano

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) String Sextet in d minor, Op. 70, “Souvenir de Florence” I. Allegro con spirito II. Adagio cantabile e con moto | 7:30 pm III. Allegretto moderato IV. Allegro vivace Vadim Gluzman, violin

Mei Zhan, violin VADIM Alaina Rea, viola Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall Josef Fischer, viola Michael Kannen, violoncello Ismael Guerrero Bombut, violoncello GLUZMAN AND FRIENDS

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Ismael Guerrero Bombut Violoncello Ismael Guerrero Bombut is a cellist from Havana, Cuba. He began his cello studies at the age of 8. While in Cuba he won several competitions and participated in master classes from renowned cellists such as Carlos Prieto, Clemen Hagens, and Leidi Litschauer. He is now in the third year of his undergraduate studies at the Peabody Conservatory, which he attends on full scholarship, studying with Amit Peled. He has performed with Heifetz On Tour in Exton, Pa., and Staunton, Va., after attending the Heifetz International Music Institute in 2017 on full scholarship. Last summer, he attended Keshet Eilon in Israel, where he won the concerto competition which allowed him to perform as a soloist with the Tel Aviv Soloists Ensemble in The Opera House of the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center. He has also performed in Mexico, Cape Cod, North Carolina, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. He has been invited on several occasions to join the Peabody Cello Gang and the Mount Vernon Virtuosi. Josef Fischer Viola Violist Josef Fischer is currently a Graduate Performance Diploma student at the Peabody Conservatory studying with Victoria Chiang. He has previously worked with Erika Eckert and Geraldine Walther of the Takács Quartet. Fischer has served as principal violist of a number of ensembles including the Peabody Symphony, Aspen Music Festival Opera, the CU Symphony Opera, Hot Springs Symphony, and Colorado All State Symphony orchestras. He has performed in several festivals including New York String Orchestra Seminar, Florentia Consort (Florence, Italy), the Alba Music Festival, Orford Musique, and the Bowdoin International Music Festival at Aspen Music Festival and School. This summer he will be serving as a viola fellow with the Aspen Music Festival and School. Vadim Gluzman Violin Universally recognized among today’s top performing artists, Vadim Gluzman brings to life the glorious violinistic tradition of the 19th and 20th centuries. Gluzman’s wide repertoire embraces new music, and his performances are heard around the world through live broadcasts and a striking catalog of award-winning recordings exclusively for the BIS label. Since 2018, Gluzman has served as Distinguished Artist in Residence at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. The Israeli violinist appears regularly with major orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and the Royal Concertgebouw. He collaborates with leading conductors including Riccardo Chailly, Christoph von Dohnányi, Tugan Sokhiev, Sir Andrew Davis, Neeme Järvi, Michael Tilson Thomas, Semyon Bychkov, and Hannu Lintu. Festival appearances include performances at Lockenhaus, Ravinia, Tanglewood and the North Shore Chamber Music Festival in Chicago, founded by Gluzman and pianist Angela Yo¥e, his wife and recital partner. Highlights of his 2018–19 season include performances with the Chicago Symphony and Cleveland Orchestra, concerts with the Sydney, Melbourne, and West Australian Symphony Orchestras, and with the Bamberger Symphoniker, Bergen Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra,

2 3 the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, and Seattle Symphony. He leads performances with the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra in Columbus, Ohio, where he serves as creative partner and principal guest artist. Gluzman celebrates the 100th anniversary of violinist Henryk Szeryng with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Hamburg NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México, and Warsaw Philharmonic. This season, Gluzman gives the U.S. premiere of Lera Auerbach’s The Infant Minstrel and His Peculiar Menagerie with the Louisiana Philharmonic under Carlos Miguel Prieto. He has given premieres of other works by Auerbach, as well as by Michael Daugherty, Sofia Gubaidulina, Giya Kancheli, Elena Firsova, and Pēteris Vasks. Gluzman performs on the legendary 1690 ‘ex-Leopold Auer’ Stradivari on extended loan to him through the generosity of the Stradivari Society of Chicago. Michael Kannen Violoncello Cellist Michael Kannen has distinguished himself as a musician and educator of uncommon accomplishment who is comfortable in widely diverse musical situations and venues. He was a founding member of the Brentano String Quartet and for seven years performed with that group on concert stages around the world, on radio and television, and on recordings. During those years, the Brentano Quartet was awarded the first Cleveland Quartet Award, the Naumburg Chamber Music Award, a Royal Philharmonic Award, and was the first participant in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center II program. Kannen has performed in such places as Carnegie Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and the Sidney Opera House. He continues to perform chamber music around the country as a member of the Cooperstown Quartet, on period instruments with the Houston-based group Context, and at major music festivals such as Yellow Barn, Chamber Music Northwest, Portland Chamber Music Festival, and the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, England. Kannen has collaborated with such artists as Jessye Norman, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Itzhak Perlman, Sergiu Luca, Daniel Phillips, Donald Weilerstein, Pamela Frank, Leon Fleisher, Mitsuko Uchida, Peter Frankl, Paula Robison, David Krakauer, Jörg Widmann, Steven Isserlis, and with jazz artists Michael Formanek and Uri Caine. His activities range from performances on period instruments to premieres of the music of our time. He has recorded for the CRI and Azica labels. Kannen has served on the faculties of Dartmouth College and the Purchase College Conservatory, and he is currently the director of chamber music at the Peabody Conservatory, where he holds the Sidney Friedberg Chair in Chamber Music. Marcella Kolacki Violoncello Originally from Phoenix, Arizona, cellist Marcie Kolacki has established herself as an intuitive and dedicated performer. Since beginning her studies at the age of 8, Kolacki’s technical proficiency and musicality have led her to professional solo, chamber, and orchestral performances and recitals throughout the United States. She made her solo debut in 2009 and accepted her first principal position with an orchestra at the age of 16. Recently, she has served as principal cellist of the Peabody Concert and Symphony orchestras, as well as the Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival Orchestra. Kolacki is currently studying at the Peabody Conservatory with Alan Stepansky, earning her bachelor’s degree in cello performance. She would like to thank Daniel and Jephta Drachman for establishing the Gregor Piatigorsky Scholarship and Mary Louise Kates for establishing the Stephen Kates Memorial Endowed Scholarship at Peabody.

2 3 Alaina Rea Viola Violist Alaina Rea is currently a first-year GPD student at Peabody, studying with Victoria Chiang and Choong-Jin Chang. She completed her undergraduate degree at the Juilliard School as a student of Heidi Castleman and Steven Tenenbom. Rea is a substitute for the New World Symphony and has performed as principal violist with the Juilliard Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, and the Chicago Youth Symphony. She has attended the Heifetz Institute, Aspen Music Festival, and will be a second-year fellow at Tanglewood this summer. Orest Smovzh Violin Born in Lviv, Ukraine, Orest Smovzh started to play the violin under the guidance of his mother and Nadiya Varyanko. For the past few years he has studied with Midori Gotō and is a student at the Peabody Conservatory. Smovzh also studied with Mariya Futorska, Yaroslava Rivnyak, Dmytro Tkachenko, and Qian Zhou at Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in Singapore, and USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles. He collaborated in chamber performances with members of Orchestre des Champs-Élysées and Suntory Hall Chamber Music Academy; pianists Thomas Hoppe and Albert Tiu; cellist Michael Kannen; and also worked on a diverse chamber repertoire with Bernard Lanskey and Je¥rey Kahane. As a soloist he participated in historically informed performances with Masaaki Suzuki as well as in several outreach projects with Midori in Mexico and the U.S. Apart from performing, he is a co-founder of Dzenzelivka Classical Week, the first Ukrainian chamber music festival in a village where he was the artistic director for eight years; Collegium Musicum Lviv, one of the most vibrant concert organizations of Ukraine; and Melaka Classics, an innovative classical music project in Malaysia. He was winner of the 2015 Tadeusz Wroński Violin Solo Competition and a finalist of the 2018 George Enescu Violin Competition. Chadwick Thomas Clarinet Clarinetist Chadwick Thomas is a passionate chamber musician and soloist. Thomas has been heard as a chamber musician throughout the Eastern U.S. and Gulf Coast regions, and as concerto soloist with the Eastern Youth Orchestra of Greenville, N.C. In April 2017, Thomas performed at Loyola University’s Roussel Hall, opening for the Harlem String Quartet on the New Orleans Friends of Chamber Music Series. He has been heard with Symphony Number One and as a member of Zenith Winds, an Honors Chamber Music Ensemble of the Peabody Conservatory. Thomas was awarded two first prizes at the NOLA Chamber Fest Competition 2017, a second prize in 2016 in New Orleans, and was finalist in the 2016 Louisiana State University Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition. A native of Greenville, N.C., Thomas is studying with Alexander Fiterstein at the Peabody Conservatory where he was awarded the Sidney Jensen Memorial Prize in Woodwind Performance. He previously studied at Louisiana State University where he was awarded the Lagniappe Prize for Woodwind Performance. His principal teachers include Douglas Moore-Monroe, Deborah Chodacki, and Alexander Fiterstein.

4 5 Angela Yoe Piano Latvian born pianist, producer, and educator Angela Yo¥e is widely admired for her dazzling musicianship and passion for music education. In 2010, Yo¥e created Chicago’s annual North Shore Chamber Music Festival and each year presents career advancement awards such as the Arkady Fomin Scholarship, to exceptional emerging artists. She is also founder of the Collaborative Piano Class at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University and the Creative Learning Program of the Betty Haag Academy of Music. She has created collaborative projects with the International Center on Deafness and the Arts and the Lurie Children’s Hospital. Yo¥e has performed as a chamber musician and recitalist in New York, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, London, Berlin, Paris, Tel Aviv, Geneva, Rome, and Tokyo. She has appeared as guest soloist with the Seattle Symphony, the Omaha Symphony, SWR Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, the Hamburg Symphony, and with New York’s Jupiter Symphony under the batons of Andrey Boreyko, Gerard Schwarz, Jens Nygaard, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, and Victor Yampolsky. She has been invited to perform at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, Lockenhaus Festival in Austria, Festival de Radio France, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Colmar Festival in France, MIDEM Festival, Ravinia Festival, Pablo Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, the Schwetzingen Festspiele, and the Bantry Festival in West Cork. Yo¥e records exclusively for BIS Records, and her discography includes a recently released album with violinist Vadim Gluzman of Sergey Prokofiev’s Violin Sonatas. Her world premiere recording of Lera Auerbach’s 24 Preludes for Violin and Piano (composed for Yo¥e and Gluzman) was released on BIS Records to rave reviews, as well as their other albums Time… and Again, Ballet for a Lonely Violinist, and Fireworks. Mei Zhan Violin Violinist Mei Zhan is originally from China. She performed her first solo concert at 11 years of age in Shenyang. At age 12, she was invited by Xinhua Hu, the concertmaster of the Shenzhen Symphony, to perform at his solo concert as a special guest; and at age 13, Zhan played a solo with the Liaoning Symphony. The following year, she received a full scholarship to study at the Music Institute of Chicago with Almita Vamos. After studying with Vamos, she accepted a scholarship to study at the Idyllwild Arts Academy. She was also accepted as a member of the Ed and Mari Edelman Chamber Music Institute’s Honors Quartet at the Colburn Community School of Performing Arts. After becoming a student of Aimée Kreston at Colburn Music Academy, Zhan accepted several engagements to perform as a soloist, with groups such as the Sierra Summer Festival Orchestra among others. She has performed in master classes with such renowned artists as Shmuel Ashkenasi, Martin Beaver, the Juilliard Quartet, and Midori. In 2015, her chamber group won the first prize and a gold medal in the Fischo¥ National Chamber Music Competition. She also performed with Chinese violinists SiQing Lv and Xi Chen during the summer of 2016. Her chamber activities at Peabody have led her to perform in Maestro Benjamin Zander’s Interpretation of Music master class and the opening concert of the Amarillo Chamber Music Series 2018. Zhan attended the Yellow Barn Young Arts Program in 2017 and 2018. Currently, she studies at the Peabody Conservatory with Violaine Melançon.

4 5 Michiko Sakai and Jay Jones Thomas MacCracken Alma D. Hunt/VCM Charitable Trust THE GEORGE PEABODY SOCIETY Dorothy * and Louis Pollack Paul E. McAdam * Donna and Eric Kahn Presser Foundation Barbara and John McDaniel Dure Shehwar R. Khan $1.4 MILLION AND ABOVE T. Rowe Price Foundation Lloyd E. Mitchell Foundation Trust Ralph W. Kuncl Barbara and David Roux Clara Juwon Ohr D. L. Langdon We recognize those philanthropic visionaries whose lifetime cumulative giving has matched or exceeded George Peabody’s founding gift of $. million. Christine Rutt Schmitz and Thomas Pozefsky Sara W. Levi Their generosity has expanded and transformed the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Robert Schmitz Linda B. and Richard Q. Snurr Jessica Preiss Lunken and The names are ordered by the date when they joined this elite group of donors. Adam G. Shapiro Marguerite M. VillaSanta David A. Lunken George Peabody Elizabeth J. and Richard W. Case John L. Due Judith R. and Turner B. Smith Margaret C. and Patrick C. Walsh Suzanne and John Peter Mantegna Sidney M. Friedberg Florence H. and Charles R. Austrian Taylor A. Hanex Speedwell Foundation Grace C. and Frank Chi-Pong Yin Barbara P. and Martin P. Wasserman Valerie and Michael Marcus Charitable Trust Michael R. Bloomberg Rheda Becker and Wells Fargo Foundation Paul B. Mathews The Blaustein-Rosenberg- Anonymous Robert E. Meyerho DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE Thalheimer Philanthropic Group Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Carol and Paul Matlin Tristan W. Rhodes Laifun Chung and Ted Kotche Children of Baltimore City $1,000–$2,499 Irene T. Kitagawa and Eric and Edith Friedheim Hilda P. and Douglas S. Goodwin Sandra Levi Gerstung and the Marin Alsop Stephen S. McCall Loretta Ver Valen Levi Family Fund II of the CONCERTMASTER’S CIRCLE Anonymous Jean and Paul R. McHugh Claire S. and Allan D. Jensen Baltimore Community Foundation Arabella Leith Carol and Steven Batoff Cynthia and Michael McKee Symington Griswold Marc C. von May Cynthia and Paul Lorraine $5,000–$9,999 Aurelia G. Bolton Gary Melick Wendy G. Griswold and Thomas H. Powell Nancy S. Grasmick Bank of America Foundation ‡ Anders V. Borge Sharon and Andrew Nickol Benjamin H. Griswold IV Anonymous Liz and Fred Bronstein Susan and John Brantley Eugene Minusk Ohr Phyllis Bryn-Julson and Helene Breazeale Eleanor Simon and Donald Sutherland Patrick O’Neall THE 2017–18 FRIEDBERG SOCIETY Mary C. R. S. Morgan and Laura B. Garvin-Asher and Margaret B. Otenasek This society is named in honor of Sidney and Miriam Friedberg, whose generosity launched a new era Edward J. Asher David J. Callard Elizabeth and Jonathan Peress of philanthropic leadership at the Peabody Institute. Friedberg Society donors sustain and enhance Ruby and Robert Wesley Hearn Carol Cannon Michael Pham Peabody by giving $, or more over the course of a ﬁscal year. The donors listed below have made Hecht-Levi Foundation W. P. Carey Foundation outright gifts or pledges at the Friedberg Society level between July , , and June , . Kimberly and Townsend Plant Jephson Educational Trusts Linda P. Carter Lawrence Pollack CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE COMPOSER’S CIRCLE Amy L. Gould and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ‡ L. Chinsoo Cho Matthew S. Polk Jr. Donald Regier Kingsley’s Cause Private Foundation Kathleen Whalen and Frederick Cohen $100,000 AND ABOVE $50,000–$99,999 Lori Raphael and Burr and Judi Short J. Michael Hemmer Koret Foundation Margaret Hammond Cooke * Anonymous * Brookby Foundation Terry Meiselman Shuch and Julie A. Walters and Samuel G. Rose Susan J. Linde Barbara J. Cowie and Robert Austrian * Carol M. Condon William H. Cowie Jr. Neal Meiselman Esther Carliner Viros Peabody Institute Fund of the Thomas R. Silverman Rheda Becker and Charles Delmar Foundation Baltimore Community Foundation Russell Davidson Foundation Robert E. Meyerhoff Andrew Yang Edward Steinhouse Jeffrey Gould * Lucinda M. Rouse Nijole Boguta Dedinas Elana R. Byrd Howard and Barbara Stowe David Wayne Helsley * Riva A. and Albert B. Shackman † Ruth L. and Arno P. Drucker Lester Dequaine – Hittman Family Foundation † VIRTUOSO’S CIRCLE Angela and Daniel Taylor Frank Chiarenza * Foundation Lisa Smith and Hildegard and Richard Eliasberg Maria Emma and Vanda McMurtry $10,000–$24,999 W. Christopher Smith Jr. Helen Stone Tice Laifun Chung and Ted Kotcheff Kimberly and Donald Evans Henry and Ruth Blaustein Pennie and Gary Abramson Marian and Abraham Sofaer Exelon Foundation ‡ Sheila and Erick Vail Rosalee and Richard Davison Rosenberg Foundation Anonymous Anne Luetkemeyer Stone Christine and John Fraser Mary Jo and Charles Wagandt Margaret and Robert Fisher Marc C. von May Richard W. Armstrong † Charles Emerson Walker Patrick Fraser Beverly Dietrich Weber Hilda Perl Goodwin * Reba A. Will Foundation Liza Bailey and Michael Musgrave Carole and Hang Fung Susan F. Weiss Janet Rayburn Greive and Shirley S. L. Yang Tyrone Greive Jacob and Hilda PRINCIPAL’S CIRCLE Mary Jo and James Gary Yolanda and Robert Wiese Wendy G. Griswold and Blaustein Foundation $2,500–$4,999 Wendy and Robert Ginsburg Wolman Family Foundation Benjamin H. Griswold IV MAESTRO’S CIRCLE Barbara and Thomas Bozzuto Avedis Zildjian Company Frances K. and George Alderson Google, Inc. ‡ Taylor A. Hanex $25,000–$49,999 Estelle Dennis Scholarship Trust Ireneus Bohdan Yaromyr Zuk Mary Lou Bauer Jean P. Gordon † Claire S. and Allan D. Jensen Evergreen House Foundation AEGON Transamerica Foundation Abra Bush Suruchi Mohan and Prabhat K. Goyal Calvin E. Jones Ira B. Fader Jr. Paul M. Angell Foundation Constance R. Caplan Ellen Halle and the Halle Family C. Albert Kuper III * Paula Boggs and Randee Fox Edith Hall Friedheim and the Philanthropic Fund Eric Friedheim Foundation Pauline Chapin † Cynthia and Paul Lorraine Jane W. I. and Larry D. Droppa Maureen Harrigan and Sandra Levi Gerstung and the Lydia and Charles Duff David McDowell Clarence Manger and Phillip T. Dunk Jr. * Audrey Cordero Plitt Trust * Levi Family Fund II of the Morton J. Ellin † Wilda M. Heiss Peggy and Yale Gordon Baltimore Community Foundation Thomas H. Powell Barbara S. Hawkins Cynthia Adams Hoover and Charitable Trust Karen Gober † Suzanne J. Schlenger * Patricia E. Kauffman Roland Armitage Hoover Tamera and Brian Hays Judith and Stephen Hittman † Hank Sopher Christopher Kovalchick Larraine Bernstein and Priscilla Huffman † Christina M. Holzapfel and Kenneth D. Hornstein * Deceased Ci-Ying Sun Galan Kral Sumati Murli and Sunil Kumar William Bradshaw Nancy and Robert Huber † In-Kind Gift Beth Kronenwetter Jill E. McGovern Nina Rodale Houghton Indian Spring Academy of Music ‡ Matching Gift Links, Inc.

The students, faculty, and sta of the Peabody Institute would also like to acknowledge the more than 1,000 dedicated donors whose gifts of $1 to $999 helped to realize Peabody’s 2017–18 academic year. 6 7 Michiko Sakai and Jay Jones Thomas MacCracken Alma D. Hunt/VCM Charitable Trust THE GEORGE PEABODY SOCIETY Dorothy * and Louis Pollack Paul E. McAdam * Donna and Eric Kahn Presser Foundation Barbara and John McDaniel Dure Shehwar R. Khan $1.4 MILLION AND ABOVE T. Rowe Price Foundation Lloyd E. Mitchell Foundation Trust Ralph W. Kuncl Barbara and David Roux Clara Juwon Ohr D. L. Langdon We recognize those philanthropic visionaries whose lifetime cumulative giving has matched or exceeded George Peabody’s founding gift of $. million. Christine Rutt Schmitz and Thomas Pozefsky Sara W. Levi Their generosity has expanded and transformed the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Robert Schmitz Linda B. and Richard Q. Snurr Jessica Preiss Lunken and The names are ordered by the date when they joined this elite group of donors. Adam G. Shapiro Marguerite M. VillaSanta David A. Lunken George Peabody Elizabeth J. and Richard W. Case John L. Due Judith R. and Turner B. Smith Margaret C. and Patrick C. Walsh Suzanne and John Peter Mantegna Sidney M. Friedberg Florence H. and Charles R. Austrian Taylor A. Hanex Speedwell Foundation Grace C. and Frank Chi-Pong Yin Barbara P. and Martin P. Wasserman Valerie and Michael Marcus Charitable Trust Michael R. Bloomberg Rheda Becker and Wells Fargo Foundation Paul B. Mathews The Blaustein-Rosenberg- Anonymous Robert E. Meyerho DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE Thalheimer Philanthropic Group Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Carol and Paul Matlin Tristan W. Rhodes Laifun Chung and Ted Kotche Children of Baltimore City $1,000–$2,499 Irene T. Kitagawa and Eric and Edith Friedheim Hilda P. and Douglas S. Goodwin Sandra Levi Gerstung and the Marin Alsop Stephen S. McCall Loretta Ver Valen Levi Family Fund II of the CONCERTMASTER’S CIRCLE Anonymous Jean and Paul R. McHugh Claire S. and Allan D. Jensen Baltimore Community Foundation Arabella Leith Carol and Steven Batoff Cynthia and Michael McKee Symington Griswold Marc C. von May Cynthia and Paul Lorraine $5,000–$9,999 Aurelia G. Bolton Gary Melick Wendy G. Griswold and Thomas H. Powell Nancy S. Grasmick Bank of America Foundation ‡ Anders V. Borge Sharon and Andrew Nickol Benjamin H. Griswold IV Anonymous Liz and Fred Bronstein Susan and John Brantley Eugene Minusk Ohr Phyllis Bryn-Julson and Helene Breazeale Eleanor Simon and Donald Sutherland Patrick O’Neall THE 2017–18 FRIEDBERG SOCIETY Mary C. R. S. Morgan and Laura B. Garvin-Asher and Margaret B. Otenasek This society is named in honor of Sidney and Miriam Friedberg, whose generosity launched a new era Edward J. Asher David J. Callard Elizabeth and Jonathan Peress of philanthropic leadership at the Peabody Institute. Friedberg Society donors sustain and enhance Ruby and Robert Wesley Hearn Carol Cannon Michael Pham Peabody by giving $, or more over the course of a ﬁscal year. The donors listed below have made Hecht-Levi Foundation W. P. Carey Foundation outright gifts or pledges at the Friedberg Society level between July , , and June , . Kimberly and Townsend Plant Jephson Educational Trusts Linda P. Carter Lawrence Pollack CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE COMPOSER’S CIRCLE Amy L. Gould and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ‡ L. Chinsoo Cho Matthew S. Polk Jr. Donald Regier Kingsley’s Cause Private Foundation Kathleen Whalen and Frederick Cohen $100,000 AND ABOVE $50,000–$99,999 Lori Raphael and Burr and Judi Short J. Michael Hemmer Koret Foundation Margaret Hammond Cooke * Anonymous * Brookby Foundation Terry Meiselman Shuch and Julie A. Walters and Samuel G. Rose Susan J. Linde Barbara J. Cowie and Robert Austrian * Carol M. Condon William H. Cowie Jr. Neal Meiselman Esther Carliner Viros Peabody Institute Fund of the Thomas R. Silverman Rheda Becker and Charles Delmar Foundation Baltimore Community Foundation Russell Davidson Foundation Robert E. Meyerhoff Andrew Yang Edward Steinhouse Jeffrey Gould * Lucinda M. Rouse Nijole Boguta Dedinas Elana R. Byrd Howard and Barbara Stowe David Wayne Helsley * Riva A. and Albert B. Shackman † Ruth L. and Arno P. Drucker Lester Dequaine – Hittman Family Foundation † VIRTUOSO’S CIRCLE Angela and Daniel Taylor Frank Chiarenza * Foundation Lisa Smith and Hildegard and Richard Eliasberg Maria Emma and Vanda McMurtry $10,000–$24,999 W. Christopher Smith Jr. Helen Stone Tice Laifun Chung and Ted Kotcheff Kimberly and Donald Evans Henry and Ruth Blaustein Pennie and Gary Abramson Marian and Abraham Sofaer Exelon Foundation ‡ Sheila and Erick Vail Rosalee and Richard Davison Rosenberg Foundation Anonymous Anne Luetkemeyer Stone Christine and John Fraser Mary Jo and Charles Wagandt Margaret and Robert Fisher Marc C. von May Richard W. Armstrong † Charles Emerson Walker Patrick Fraser Beverly Dietrich Weber Hilda Perl Goodwin * Reba A. Will Foundation Liza Bailey and Michael Musgrave Carole and Hang Fung Susan F. Weiss Janet Rayburn Greive and Shirley S. L. Yang Tyrone Greive Jacob and Hilda PRINCIPAL’S CIRCLE Mary Jo and James Gary Yolanda and Robert Wiese Wendy G. Griswold and Blaustein Foundation $2,500–$4,999 Wendy and Robert Ginsburg Wolman Family Foundation Benjamin H. Griswold IV MAESTRO’S CIRCLE Barbara and Thomas Bozzuto Avedis Zildjian Company Frances K. and George Alderson Google, Inc. ‡ Taylor A. Hanex $25,000–$49,999 Estelle Dennis Scholarship Trust Ireneus Bohdan Yaromyr Zuk Mary Lou Bauer Jean P. Gordon † Claire S. and Allan D. Jensen Evergreen House Foundation AEGON Transamerica Foundation Abra Bush Suruchi Mohan and Prabhat K. Goyal Calvin E. Jones Ira B. Fader Jr. Paul M. Angell Foundation Constance R. Caplan Ellen Halle and the Halle Family C. Albert Kuper III * Paula Boggs and Randee Fox Edith Hall Friedheim and the Philanthropic Fund Eric Friedheim Foundation Pauline Chapin † Cynthia and Paul Lorraine Jane W. I. and Larry D. Droppa Maureen Harrigan and Sandra Levi Gerstung and the Lydia and Charles Duff David McDowell Clarence Manger and Phillip T. Dunk Jr. * Audrey Cordero Plitt Trust * Levi Family Fund II of the Morton J. Ellin † Wilda M. Heiss Peggy and Yale Gordon Baltimore Community Foundation Thomas H. Powell Barbara S. Hawkins Cynthia Adams Hoover and Charitable Trust Karen Gober † Suzanne J. Schlenger * Patricia E. Kauffman Roland Armitage Hoover Tamera and Brian Hays Judith and Stephen Hittman † Hank Sopher Christopher Kovalchick Larraine Bernstein and Priscilla Huffman † Christina M. Holzapfel and Kenneth D. Hornstein * Deceased Ci-Ying Sun Galan Kral Sumati Murli and Sunil Kumar William Bradshaw Nancy and Robert Huber † In-Kind Gift Beth Kronenwetter Jill E. McGovern Nina Rodale Houghton Indian Spring Academy of Music ‡ Matching Gift Links, Inc.

The students, faculty, and sta of the Peabody Institute would also like to acknowledge the more than 1,000 dedicated donors whose gifts of $1 to $999 helped to realize Peabody’s 2017–18 academic year. 6 7 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PEABODY INSTITUTE ADVISORY BOARD ADMINISTRATION Rheda Becker Abbe Levin Ronald J. Daniels Paula E. Boggs Jill E. McGovern President Barbara M. Bozzuto, Vice Chair Christine Rutt Schmitz Sunil Kumar Richard Davison Solomon H. Snyder Provost and Senior Vice President Larry D. Droppa David Tan for Academic Aairs Leon Fleisher David L. Warnock PEABODY INSTITUTE Nancy S. Grasmick Shirley S. L. Yang Michael Greenebaum ADMINISTRATION Taylor A. Hanex, Chair Fred Bronstein Allan D. Jensen, Vice Chair EMERITUS MEMBERS Dean Michiko S. Jones Pilar Bradshaw Abra Bush Laifun Chung Kotche Benjamin H. Griswold IV Senior Associate Dean of Institute Studies Christopher Kovalchick Turner B. Smith Sarah Hoover Associate Dean for Innovation, Interdisciplinary Partnerships, and Community Initiatives Townsend Plant Associate Dean for Enrollment and Student Life

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David Blachowicz Ben Johnson Jessica Satava Production Services Manager Senior Graphic Designer Concert Operations Supervisor Chelsea Buyalos Renee Kelsey Adam Scalici Concert Series Coordinator Piano Technician Stage Coordinator and Audiovisual Assistant Daniel Chaloux Andrew Kipe Production Assistant and Director of Concert and Mary Schwendeman Stage Manager Ensemble Operations Senior Piano Technician Elizabeth Digney Yuriy Kosachevich Amelia Stinnette Box O ce Coordinator Piano Technician Communications Coordinator for Concert Programs Robin Felt Dennis Malat Ensemble Librarian Production Coordinator Ryan Tani Ensemble O ce Coordinator Melina Gajger Harry Oehler Ensemble Program Manager Production Coordinator

8 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PEABODY INSTITUTE ADVISORY BOARD ADMINISTRATION Rheda Becker Abbe Levin Ronald J. Daniels Paula E. Boggs Jill E. McGovern President Barbara M. Bozzuto, Vice Chair Christine Rutt Schmitz Sunil Kumar Richard Davison Solomon H. Snyder Provost and Senior Vice President Larry D. Droppa David Tan for Academic Aairs Leon Fleisher David L. Warnock PEABODY INSTITUTE Nancy S. Grasmick Shirley S. L. Yang Michael Greenebaum ADMINISTRATION Taylor A. Hanex, Chair Fred Bronstein Allan D. Jensen, Vice Chair EMERITUS MEMBERS Dean Michiko S. Jones Pilar Bradshaw Abra Bush Laifun Chung Kotche Benjamin H. Griswold IV Senior Associate Dean of Institute Studies Christopher Kovalchick Turner B. Smith Sarah Hoover Associate Dean for Innovation, Interdisciplinary Partnerships, and Community Initiatives Townsend Plant Associate Dean for Enrollment and Student Life

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