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September 2022

09-19-2022
Countertenor Chuanyuan Liu VAP ’21 Receives a Met Competition Education Grant
Countertenor Chuanyuan Liu, who graduated from the Bard Conservatory of Music’s Vocal Arts Program in 2021, has been named a grantee of the Met’s Education Fund. Education Fund grants are available to semifinalists, finalists, and Grand Finals winners of the Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition, following an audition with the Met artistic staff. The grants are intended to support the development of these young artists and are made possible by the generosity of donors. Since the 2021 Laffont semifinals, Chuanyuan Liu has been involved in three world premiere projects: Pittsburgh Opera’s production of In a Grove, with music by Christopher Cerrone and libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann; Philadelphia Orchestra’s concert version of Kevin Puts and Greg Pierce’s The Hours; and Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang's highly anticipated new opera M. Butterfly 蝴蝶君 at Santa Fe Opera. Liu has committed himself to an Asian-focused project each year stating, “as someone who grew up in China and spent all of my adulthood in the US, I have seen firsthand the differences but also the common ground. I want to use as much power as I have to build a bridge.”

Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Bard Graduate Programs | Institutes(s): Bard Conservatory of Music |
09-19-2022
Jong Sun Woo APS ’18 Wins the 2022 Gerald Moore Award for Outstanding Piano Accompanists
Pianist Jong Sun Woo, who graduated from the Bard Conservatory of Music’s Advanced Performance Studies Program in 2018, is the recipient of the 2022 Gerald Moore Award for outstanding piano accompanists. With this award, she will receive a prize of £5,000 and the opportunity to play at London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall. The Gerald Moore Award is presented biennially to exceptional piano accompanists, usually in the early stages of very promising careers. Now in its 30th year, the Gerald Moore Award has been its own registered charity but from 2022 has made its new home at the UK’s Royal Philharmonic Society. “My favourite activity as a child was to play pretend with a friend. Playing the song repertoire is not far from that . . . Being a song pianist means that I have the limitless possibilities of parallel universes under my fingers,” said Woo.
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Photo: Jong Sun Woo.
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09-15-2022
Bard College Conservatory of Music’s Performance of Strauss’s Salome Reviewed in <em>Opera News</em>
For Opera News, David Shengold reviews the Bard College Conservatory of Music’s March 2022 production of Richard Strauss’s opera Salome with libretto by Oscar Wilde, directed by R. B. Schlather. In his review, he praises the Conservatory Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein. “The performance also aroused admiration for the Bard Conservatory Orchestra: the eighty-six student players for Salome orchestra played the difficult score with notable beauty and precision,” he writes.  The Fisher Center staging was directed by R. B. Schlather.
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Photo: Bard Conservatory of Music's production of Salome. Photo by Maria Baranova
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09-08-2022
Bard Conservatory Alum Stephen Jones Wins Assistant Principal Bass Position in the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Stephen Jones, who graduated from the Bard College Conservatory’s Advanced Performance Studies (APS) Program in 2019, joins the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra as Assistant Principal Bass in the 2022-23 season. Following extensive national auditions, Jones won the Trish & Rick Bryan Chair, a tenure-track position with the orchestra. “Each of these musicians won highly competitive auditions, joining the ranks of the exceptional players who make up the CSO,” said President and CEO of the CSO Jonathan Martin.

Jones began playing the double bass at the age of 13 and later received his undergraduate degree from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with James VanDemark followed by additional studies at Bard College with Leigh Mesh. During his time at Bard he received additional coaching from Daniel Phillips of the Orion Quartet, Tara Hellen O'Connor, Lera Auerbach and Dawn Upshaw. He has recently completed his master’s degree at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where he studied with Owen Lee.

 
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Photo: Stephen Jones. Courtesy of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
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