The Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University

About the Artist

Established in 1857 as America’s first conservatory of music, the Peabody Institute is internationally famous. The Peabody Conservatory draws students and faculty from around the globe. Its alumni occupy the top echelons of the music profession as soloists, orchestra players, opera singers, composers, conductors and teachers. While the Institute transmits the great European classical traditions, it also encourages the composition and performance of classical and jazz contemporary music in the most diverse styles. A division of Johns Hopkins University, Peabody draws on the University’s broad resources to offer innovative programs for the interaction of music and technology. Peabody faculty, students and alumni have taken top prizes in the world’s most prestigious music competitions from the Tchaikovsky in Moscow to the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium. Peabody-trained composers and performers have won Pulitzer Prizes, Grammys, Emmys, Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Marshall Fellowships, ASCAP and BMI Awards, the Prix du Monde, Prix du Disque, and Rome Prizes, and are featured in hundreds of recordings on all major labels. The faculty boasts such world-renowned artists as guitarist Manuel Barrueco, soprano Phyllis Bryn- Julson, violinist Victor Danchenko, pianist Leon Fleisher, violinist Pamela Frank, cellist David Hardy, composer Nicholas Maw, flutist Marina Piccinini, baritone John Shirley-Quirk, organist Donald Sutherland, and french hornist Barry Tuckwell. Famous musicians who studied at Peabody range from Metropolitan Opera star James Morris to composers Dominick Argento and Philip Glass. The public can hear Peabody Conservatory artists perform in the Peabody Concert Season, which presents over 80 major events each year, including operas, orchestra/choral concerts, and solo and chamber music recitals in styles from Early Music to Computer Music. The Peabody Institute is located on Mount Vernon Place, in the historical and cultural heart of downtown Baltimore. The 2002-2004 its campus saw a $26.8 million construction project that integrated renovated and newly created spaces in its historic buildings into a harmonious whole.