Peabody Consort

Concert Program and Performers

April 21, 2012   7 p.m.

  

  

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Mark Cudek is Director of the Early Music program at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University and founder and director of both the Peabody Consort and the Peabody Renaissance Ensemble. He is also founder and director of the summer high school Early Music program at the Interlochen Arts Camp where he has been a faculty member since 1974. Mr. Cudek is a founding member of the Baltimore Consort with whom he has performed since 1980. He has toured and recorded with Apollo’s Fire (Cleveland Baroque Orchestra) and Hesperus, with whom he received first prize in the first annual Baltimore Chamber Music Competition. Mr. Cudek has also performed with the Catacoustic Consort, Folger Consort, the trio Gut, Wind, and Wire, Piffaro, Pomerium, and the Western Wind.

Internationally, he has performed at Tage Alter Musik in Regensburg, Germany; Glasgow International Early Music Festival, Scotland; Netwerk voor Oude Muziek, Holland; the National Theatre, Panama; Resonanzen Festival, Vienna; Pfingstfestival Alter Musik, Feldkirchen, Austria; and the Musique Royale Festival, Nova Scotia. In the U.S. he has appeared at the Boston Early Music Festival, the Guitar Foundation of America, the Kennedy Center, the Cloisters and Metropolitan Museums (New York), Glenn Gould Hall (Toronto), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the Smithsonian Institute, the Newberry Library, and the Folger Shakespeare Library. Radio broadcasts of Mr. Cudek’s performances include NPR’s Performance Today, APR’s St. Paul Sunday, CBC’s On Stage at the Glenn Gould, DRB (DeutschlandRadio Berlin), Voice of America, and BBC radio. His music has been featured in the movies “Sleepy Hollow” (with Hesperus) and “Hunter’s Moon” (with Custer LaRue). Television appearances include CNN’s Worldbeat. Mr. Cudek has recorded twenty-five CD’s on the Dorian, Eclectra, Golden Apple, Greenhays, Koch, Linn, Maggie's Music, Music From Peabody, and the Windham Hill labels. He plays on Ronn McFarlane's Grammy nominated CD "INdigo Road". He is Early Music America’s recipient of the 2001 Thomas Binkley Award for outstanding collegium director and the 2005 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Early Music Education. Since 2007 he has been Artistic Director of the Indianapolis Early Music Festival. Mr. Cudek lives in Baltimore with his wife Lisa and daughters Jenny and Gwen.

 

 

    

Musicians

Julie Bosworth, soprano

Daniel Moody, counter-tenor

Matt Sullivan, baritone

Brian Kay and Kevin Payne, lute

Jeffrey Grabelle, Amy Domingues, and Niccolo Seligmann, viola da gamba

Aik Shin Tan, recorder

Mark Cudek, director and cittern

A Musical Banquet:

Music from the Time of Shakespeare