"The 10th Annual Dr. Marjorie Conrad Peatee Art Song Competition," a locally produced
documentary on an annual event at Bowling Green State University’s College of Musical Arts, will
premiere will premiere today at 8 p.m. on WBGU-PBS.
This new program features the vocalists and accompanying pianists finalists from the "10th Annual
Dr. Marjorie Conrad Peatee Art Song Competition" held at Bowling Green State University last March.
With commentary by hosts George Shirley from the University of Michigan School of Music and Margot
Garrett from the Juilliard School of Music, "The 10th Annual Dr. Marjorie Conrad Peatee Art Song
Competition" showcases the performances from the 10 vocalists and nine accompanying pianists from
both around the country and the world that succeeded to the finals in both the graduate and
undergraduate divisions.
In the undergraduate division, "The 10th Annual Dr. Marjorie Conrad Peatee Art Song
Competition" features the duos:
LaRiché Jones, mezzo-soprano and Cristina Vlad, piano; Michael May, baritone, and Peter Oehrtman, piano;
Marcus Bedinger, tenor, and Casie Dietrich, piano; Matthew Hayner, baritone, and Sara Young, piano; and
Abigail Renee Krawson, soprano, and I-Chen Yeh, piano.
The graduate student division features the talents the duos: Jing Lin, soprano, and Ivana Tjandra, piano;
Amanda Strain, soprano, and Jiung Yoon, piano; Todd Doering, countertenor, and Mariam Vardzelashvili,
piano; Katherine Liesner, soprano, and Tjandra, piano; and Tammie Bradley, soprano, and Vardzelashvili,
piano.
For the competition, each performance duo had to prepare six different songs for the competition from six
different composers. The first place winners from each division of the Peatee Art Song Competition
received a grand prize of $1,500 to be evenly divided between vocalist and pianist.
The Peatee Art Song Competition began in 1999 through a donation by local physician and patron of the
arts Dr. Marjorie Conrad Peatee.
The program will be rebroadcast throughout November.
On the Net:
wbgu.org
