Corey Hamm is one of the world's foremost champions of contemporary piano music. For Piano Masters, he will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the spectacular The People United Will Never Be Defeated! by Frederic Rzewski.
Corey Hamm is professor of piano at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His students have won numerous prizes and awards, including first prize in the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition.
Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Boston Lyric Opera present a master class with award-winning mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton as part of the Opera Innovators Series.
An interdisciplinary portrait concert of music by Ryan Suleiman with musical performance and stage direction by C. Neil Parsons and his colleagues from the Fourth Wall Ensemble, this program embraces and extends the inherent theatricality of musical performance, with an emphasis on nature and the climate crisis.
Soyeon Kate Lee is on the piano faculty at the Juilliard School of Music and the Bowdoin International Summer Piano Festival. She formerly was professor at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and is in great demand for master classes around the world.
Guest artists andPlay (featuring Maya Bennardo, violin, and Hannah Levinson, viola) present a concert of exciting contemporary music for their duo, including a major work by faculty member Victoria Cheah.
Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Vocal Arts Department welcomes back baritone Roderick Williams, OBE, for an intimate evening of vocal works with Boston Conservatory faculty member Brian Moll at the piano. Williams is one of the UK’s most sought-after baritones and is constantly in demand on the concert platform and in recitals, encompassing repertoire from the baroque to world premieres.
String Masters Series presents Michael Casimir, violist with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and grand prize winner of the Hudson Valley String competition, accompanied by pianist Tae Kim, a collaborative artist at New England Conservatory and the Heifetz International Music Institute.
Yuchen Lu is a rising star in the viola world, having won first prize at the Klein International String Competition, second prize at the Lionel Tertis viola competition, and third prize in the Johansen International Competition. He will be joined by pianist Tae Kim in a recital featuring works by Bach, Brahms, Enescu, Rochberg, and a contemporary work by Yanjun Hua.
Guest duo 48 St. Stephen, featuring violinist Clara Kim and pianist Angela Kim, performs music by Boston Conservatory faculty member Dan VanHassel and others.
Acclaimed dramatic soprano Wendy Bryn Harmer presents a voice master class to Boston Conservatory at Berklee students and Boston Lyric Opera Jane and Steven Akin Emerging Artists, as part of Boston Conservatory’s Opera Innovators Series.
The Momenta String Quartet and bassoonist Adrian Morejon present the world premiere of Eun Young Lee’s newest work, commissioned by the Guggenheim Foundation.
