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Joe Burgstaller featured on 'Woodwind & Brasswind' cover

Also of note: Derrick Wang's musical tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and more

Joe Burgstaller

Image caption: Joe Burgstaller

Joe Burgstaller, a member of the trumpet and chamber music faculty, is featured on the cover of the Spring 2018 issue of Woodwind & Brasswind magazine and catalog, which goes out to 40,000 subscribers. The publication also released an accompanying video segment and interview.

More from the Peabody Institute

Ah Young Hong, a faculty artist and soprano, recently released A Breath Upwards, an album featuring music by Milton Babbitt and Peabody faculty artist Michael Hersch, Composition.

A song by Derrick Wang, a Professional Studies faculty member, is featured on a new recording, Notorious RBG in Song. The album of world-premiere recordings salutes the life and work of legal pioneer Ruth Bader Ginsburg in celebration of her completion of 25 years on the U.S. Supreme Court. "You are Searching in Vain for a Bright-Line Solution," an aria, is from Wang's opera Scalia/Ginsburg.

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's New Music Festival, scheduled for June 20-23, will feature many Peabody faculty artists, including conductor Marin Alsop, composer Kevin Puts, and oboist Katherine Needleman. The festival comprises events in spaces all over the city and will conclude with a symphony concert and the world premiere of Moonlight, an oboe concerto by Puts.

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