The Curtis Institute of Music Launches New Weekday Video Series, Continues Friday-Night Broadcasts

PHILADELPHIA—March 31, 2020—The Curtis Institute of Music announces a new video series, adding to its extensive YouTube video library. Curated around a weekly theme, the “Curtis Is Here” initiative features a video of a favorite or rarely seen Curtis performance, posted each weekday at noon EDT, beginning Monday, March 30. Curtis’s popular live-streamed recitals will be replaced with broadcasts of full-length concerts on Fridays at 8 p.m. EDT until further notice. This expanded video content is available at Curtis.edu/YouTube.

“Curtis Is Here” and the Friday-night broadcasts will make even more performance content available to the public via Curtis’s YouTube channel, which currently features over 150 videos of students, alumni, and faculty presenting individual works, full-length recitals, in-depth lectures, and more. The conservatory, which presents over 200 public performances in a typical year, is committed to providing high-quality musical content to audiences around the world. Due to recent restrictions to slow the spread of COVID-19, in-person performances at Curtis have been halted for the remainder of the Spring 2020 semester, increasing the importance of online content accessible to those at home.

New “Curtis Is Here” performance videos will be released on YouTube Mondays through Fridays at noon EDT and will be accompanied by welcoming commentary from members of the Curtis community. “Curtis Is Here” launches Monday, March 30 with the week-long theme “Indivisible by Four,” which focuses on selections for string quartet. The weekday releases feature four performances by Curtis’s past and current resident string quartets—and one special collaboration between the world-renowned Dover Quartet and violist Roberto Díaz, Curtis’s president. Future themes include Curtis on Tour performances and works by Curtis composers, among others.

Broadcasts of full-length recitals and concerts will take place on Friday nights at 8 p.m. EDT via YouTube (Curtis.edu/YouTube) and Facebook Live (Facebook.com/CurtisInstitute). These broadcasts temporarily replace Curtis’s live-streamed recitals. Content will include favorite performances from recent seasons of the Student Recital Series, Ensemble 20/21, and more. The next broadcast, on Friday, April 3 at 8 p.m. EDT, features a vocal department recital of works by Russian composers, which was originally recorded in January 2020. More information on subsequent broadcasts will be regularly updated at Curtis.edu/Calendar.

In the 2019–20 school year, the Curtis Institute of Music celebrates 95 years of educating and training exceptionally gifted young musicians to engage a local and global community through the highest level of artistry. With a small student body of about 175, Curtis provides each young musician with an unparalleled education alongside musical peers, distinguished by personalized attention from celebrated faculty and a “learn by doing” philosophy. To ensure that admissions are based solely on artistic promise, Curtis makes an investment in each admitted student so that no tuition is charged for their studies. Curtis students hone their craft through more than 200 orchestra, opera, and solo and chamber music offerings each year in Philadelphia and around the world. Learn more at Curtis.edu.

CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ON YOUTUBE

CURTIS IS HERE
Online at Curtis.edu/YouTube
New releases available Monday through Friday at 12 p.m. EDT

March 30–April 3
Indivisible by Four

FRIDAY BROADCASTS
Online at Curtis.edu/YouTube and Facebook.com/CurtisInstitute
Fridays at 8 p.m. EDT

Friday, April 3 at 8 p.m.
Broadcast: Vocal Department Presents Russian Works with Ghenady Meirson, piano

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