Peabody Institute

Peabody Institute, c. 1902

The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University is a conservatory and preparatory school located in the Mount Vernon area of Baltimore, Maryland.

Founded in 1857 by philanthropist George Peabody, it was the first academy of music to be established in the United States. Under the direction of well-known musicians, composers, conductors, and Peabody alumni, the Institute grew from a local academy to an internationally renowned cultural center throughout the late 19th and the 20th centuries.

Since 1977, the Institute has operated as a division of the Johns Hopkins University, which U.S. News & World Report cites as one of America’s top ten universities. Because of this affiliation, Peabody students are exposed to a liberal arts curriculum that is more expansive than those of other leading conservatories; likewise, Hopkins students have access to a world-class musical education and experience that they normally would not have access to at another university of such stature.

Peabody is one of 156 schools in the U.S. that offer a Doctorate of Musical Arts Degree.

Notable faculty

• Steve Barta, Clarinet
• Phyllis Bryn-Julson, voice
• Manuel Barrueco, guitar
• Nicholas Murray Browne, suspended organ
• Wayne Cameron, trumpet
• Victoria Chiang, viola
• Victor Danchenko, violin
• Leon Fleisher, piano
• Pamela Frank, violin
• Herbert Greenberg, violin
• Ingrid Jensen, jazz trumpet
• Gary Louie, saxophone
• Nicholas Maw, composition
• Gustav Meier, conducting
• Marina Piccinini, flute
• Robert van Sice, percussion
• John Shirley-Quirk, voice
• Alan Stepansky, cello
• Jennifer Stulman, double bass
• Amit Peled, cello
• Mihaly Virizlay, cello
• Christopher Theofanidis, composition
• Robert Walliczek, composition
• Piero Weiss, musicology
• Catherine Wong, clarinet
• Stephen Wyrczynski, viola
• Mihaly Virizlay, cello

External link

• http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/