Peabody Institute
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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 is most mentioned in pop culture due to the expulsion of pop pianist Tori Amos. 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 dozen 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
- Clinton Adams, keyboard master
- Steven 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
- Michael Formanek, jazz
- Pamela Frank, violin
- Brian Ganz, piano
- Herbert Greenberg, violin
- Marian Hahn, piano
- Ingrid Jensen, jazz trumpet
- Mark Katz, musicology
- Seth Knopp, piano
- [Gary Louie], saxophone
- [Jane Marvine], oboe
- Nicholas Maw, composition
- Gustav Meier, conducting
- Yong-Hi Moon, piano
- [James Olin], trombone
- Benjamin Pasternack, piano
- Marina Piccinini, flute
- Edward Polochick, choral director
- Jonathan Haas, percussion
- Robert van Sice, percussion
- John Shirley-Quirk, voice
- Alexander Shtarkman, piano
- Boris Slutsky, piano
- Alan Stepansky, cello
- Donald Sutherland, organ
- Amit Peled, cello
- Andrew Talle, musicology
- Gary Thomas, jazz
- Keng-Yuen Tseng, violin
- Mihaly Virizlay, cello
- Chris Theofanidis, composition
- Piero Weiss, musicology
- Stephen Wyrczynski, viola
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