Overtones: Spring 2016
Overtones is the semi-annual magazine of the Curtis Institute of Music. In this issue, we look back on student life at Curtis over the past 90 years, follow the preparation of Luciano Berio’s kaleidoscopic "Sinfonia," and more.
Overtones is the semi-annual magazine of the Curtis Institute of Music. In this issue, we look back on student life at Curtis over the past 90 years, follow the preparation of Luciano Berio’s kaleidoscopic "Sinfonia," and more.
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Friday Night Live<br />
Curtis Performs has launched its first-ever series of live-streamed concerts, bringing<br />
the school’s performances to homes around the world in high-definition, broadcastquality<br />
video. Since October, Friday-night recitals in the school’s renowned Field<br />
Concert Hall have been streamed live each week at www.curtis.edu/CurtisPerforms,<br />
supplemented by additional concerts on other nights throughout the year.<br />
Featured events include graduation recitals of students in their final year at<br />
Curtis, vocal recitals, residency recitals with the Aizuri Quartet and acclaimed<br />
guests, and special concerts by the Curtis 20/21 Ensemble. All live streams begin<br />
at 8 p.m. (ET), and video remains live for 72<br />
hours following the performance. The Curtis More Online<br />
Performs live stream can be viewed on any Watch live streams and additional<br />
mobile device, laptop, or desktop computer. high-definition videos at<br />
www.curtis.edu/CurtisPerforms<br />
The Curtis 20/21 Ensemble was featured in a recital that was streamed live in November.<br />
Mikael Eliasen, artistic director of the Curtis Opera<br />
Theatre and Hirsig Family Dean of Vocal Studies<br />
PHOTO: DARIO ACOSTA<br />
AMADEUS AFFAIR<br />
CELEBRATES<br />
MIKAEL ELIASEN<br />
In 1986 a young Danish-born vocal coach<br />
and accompanist arrived at Curtis to join<br />
the vocal studies faculty. Soon he was<br />
restructuring Curtis’s voice and opera<br />
training in his own unique way, laying the<br />
groundwork for the renowned and highly<br />
respected vocal studies program that has<br />
nurtured young singers ever since.<br />
In a trademark of the Curtis program<br />
under MIKAEL ELIASEN’s leadership, all of<br />
Curtis’s 25 voice and opera students are<br />
cast repeatedly each season, receiving<br />
a rare level of performance experience.<br />
As a result, Curtis graduates trained under<br />
his direction have sung with leading opera<br />
companies around the globe, including<br />
La Scala, Covent Garden, the Vienna<br />
Staatsoper, Houston Grand Opera, the<br />
San Francisco Opera, and the Metropolitan<br />
Opera, among others.<br />
On May 6 Curtis will honor Mr. Eliasen’s<br />
30-year legacy and irrepressible spirit<br />
with a celebration preceding the Curtis<br />
Opera Theatre’s performance of Le nozze<br />
de figaro at the Kimmel Center’s Perelman<br />
Theater. Proceeds from the event will<br />
support Curtis’s mission to educate and<br />
train exceptionally gifted young musicians<br />
to engage a local and global community<br />
through the highest level of artistry. <br />
More Online<br />
Information about this special celebration is at<br />
www.curtis.edu/AmadeusAffair<br />
OVertONeS SpriNg <strong>2016</strong><br />
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