Shriver Hall Concert Series

Professor of Music History and Literature at Towson University, Carl Schmidt received His Ph.D from Harvard University. He has written extensively on seventeenth-century Italian and French opera and ballet and on members of the French Groupe Des Six. He and his wife have completed a catalogue of Randall Thompson's music, and a book on Thompson's famous Alleluia was published for the 70th anniversary of the Tanglewood Institute (July 2010). He lectures widely in the Baltimore-Washington area and has been the recipient of grants from universities, The American Council of Learned Societies, The National Endowment for the Humanities, and a Harvard University Houghton Library Visiting Fellowship.

Richard Giarusso is a faculty member in the Musicology Department at the Peabody Conservatory, where he teaches classes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century music. He holds the PhD in historical musicology from Harvard University and a BA in music and English from Williams College. He is a frequent lecturer for performing organizations in the Baltimore area, having also presented talks for the Handel Choir of Baltimore and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. In addition to his scholarly work, he maintains an active career as a singer and conductor throughout the northeast.

Dr. Talle has been a member of the Musicology Department of the Peabody Conservatory since 2004 and a Gilman Scholar at The Johns Hopkins University since 2011. He studied at Northwestern and Harvard universities and is a specialist in German Baroque music. He is currently writing a book about the reception of J.S. Bach’s keyboard music during the composer’s lifetime.

Peabody Faculty member Dr. Susan Weiss is a distinguished musicologist, lecturer, and author of articles and chapters in the major music journals and scholarly books. She has received awards from The National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Mu Phi Epsilon Musicological Research Award, the John Ward Fellowship at Harvard University, and was Folger Shakespeare Library Fellow, 1992.

Jonathan Palevsky has been an on-air host at WBJC-FM since 1986 and Program Director since 1990. Originally from Montreal, he came to Baltimore in 1982 to study classical guitar at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University. He is also a widely popular lecturer and music travel leader.