Singer

The Baltimore-based ensemble Mind on Fire, co-founded by artistic director Allison Clendaniel (BM ’14, Voice) and executive director James David Young (DMA ’14, Composition), presents the world premiere of and, we, each—the new opera by composer and faculty artist Michael Hersch (BM ’95, MM ’97, Composition) with a libretto by poet Shane McCrae—September 28 and 29 at the Baltimore Theatre Project. The opera stars soprano and faculty artist Ah Young Hong (BM ’98, MM ’01, Voice)  and baritone Jesse Blumberg, is directed by James Matthew Daniel, and conductor Tito Muñoz leads an ensemble of Emi Ferguson (flute), Gleb Kanasevich (clarinet), Andy Hudson (clarinet), Adda Kridler (violin), Leah Asher (viola), Coleman Itzkoff (cello). Mind on Fire also presents and, we, each at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center October 13 and National Sawdust in Brooklyn February 6, 2025.

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Alumni And Faculty Event: And, We, Each

Baltimore Theatre Project

An interdisciplinary collaboration of art and psychology developed by Peabody faculty artists Michael Hersch and Ah Young Hong, this concert pairs excerpts from Kay Jamison’s book, Fires in the Dark, a cultural history of psychological and medical treatment and healing, with thematically related musical pieces. Read more here.

Healing The Unquiet Mind

Johns Hopkins University

Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University

earspace, the contemporary multi-sensory performance ensemble co-directed by Richard Drehoff Jr. (MM ’18, Composition, Music Theory Pedagogy) that includes Ledah Finck (BM ’16, MM ’18, Violin), spends part of December in residence at Duke University and is joined by soprano Ah Young Hong (BM ’98, MM ’01, Voice), a faculty artist, for a concert in Baldwin Auditorium, December 8, at 8:00 pm EST, that includes faculty composer Michael Hersh’s (BM ’95, MM ’97, Composition) one step to the next, worlds ending, Drehoff’s Evacuate the bones, let the skin hang dry, and works by Duke graduate student composers.

Ah Young Hong

Soprano

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Sep 28, 2024

Alumni And Faculty Event: And, We, Each · Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University

Jan 28 - Feb 3, 2024

Healing The Unquiet Mind · Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University

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