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Peabody Institute

The Peabody InstituteInformation

Type Private

Established 1857

Director Jeffrey Sharkey

Campus Urban

Website www.peabody.jhu.edu [1]

Peabody Institute, c. 1902

The Peabody Institute of The Johns HopkinsUniversity is a conservatory and preparatory schoollocated in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhoodof northern Baltimore, Maryland facing theWashington Monument circle at the corner of NorthCharles and East Monument Streets (also known asMount Vernon Place and Washington Place).

History

Founded in 1857 by philanthropist George Peabody(1795-1869), it is the second-oldest continuouslyoperating conservatory in the United States, next to theOberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio.Completion of the Grecian-Italian west wing buildinghousing the Institute, designed by Edmund George Lind, was delayed until its initial dedication in 1866 due to theCivil War.[2] Under the direction of well-known musicians, composers, conductors, and Peabody alumni, theInstitute grew from a local academy into an internationally-renowned cultural center through the late 19th and the20th centuries.

Since 1985, the institute has operated as a division of The Johns Hopkins University, which was founded in 1876, bythe will of local merchant Johns Hopkins (1795-1873). Prior to being granted divisional status, Peabody and Hopkinsworked together under an affiliation agreement (1978 to 1985). The affiliated George Peabody Library in the eastwing of the building which was completed later in 1878, functioned for a time as a division of the city's free publiclibrary system, the Enoch Pratt Free Library from 1966 to

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Peabody Library

1982, which had been conceived, organized andendowed by Peabody's friend and fellow Bay Stater,Enoch Pratt, (1808-1896). Both Peabody and Pratt wereinspirations and models for steel industrialist andmillionaire Andrew Carnegie, (1835-1919) as he beganhis philanthropy especially with public librarybuildings in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.

Peabody is one of 156 schools in the United States thatoffer a Doctorate of Musical Arts Degree. It houses twolibraries: the historical George Peabody Libraryestablished when the Institute opened in 1866, knownfor his collection of 19th Century books and the ArthurFriedheim Library, a separate music library thatincludes more than 100,000 books, scores, and soundrecordings.

Peabody Children's ChorusThe Peabody Children's chorus is for children ages 6–18. It is divided into three groups: Training Choir, Choristers,and Cantate, grouped by age in ascending order. They practice weekly in Towson or Columbia, Maryland, and singin concerts biannually under the instruction of Doreen Falby, Bradley Permenter, and Julia Sherriff. Cantate, ages12–18, frequently perform with other groups, such as the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, The Baltimore ChamberOrchestra, The Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, and the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, and have toured bothregionally and internationally.

Notable attendees• Tori Amos — (Prep.) American-born pianist• Dominick Argento — Composer of lyric opera and choral music.• Alicia Berneche -- Opera singer• Carter Brey - Principal cellist, New York Philharmonic.• Richard Cassilly (1927-1998) — Tenor• Angelin Chang — Grammy-award winning classical pianist• Martha Clarke — (Prep.) Choreographer and dance director.• Richard Wayne Dirksen (1921-2003) — Organist-choirmaster at the Washington National Cathedral• Joshua Fineberg - American composer.• Virgil Fox (1912-1980) — Concert organist and recording artist.• Philip Glass — (Prep.) Composer of opera and contemporary music.• Hilary Hahn - (Prep.) Violinist.• Ronn McFarlane - Lutenist, Baroque and Renaissance music interpreter

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• Michael Hedges (1953-1997) - Composer, Grammy Award-winning (1998) guitarist.• Michael Hersch — American composer.• Kevin Kenner — American-born pianist, winner of top prize in International Chopin Competition, bronze in

International Tchaikovsky Competition.• Custer LaRue - American soprano, specialist in music of the Renaissance and vocal soloist of the Baltimore

Consort• Ellis Larkins (1923-2002) — American jazz pianist. First African-American to attend the conservatory.• James Morris — Wagnerian baritone, Grammy winner and performer with Metropolitan Opera.• Mem Nahadr — (Prep.) Performance Artist, pianist and singer-songwriter. Attended from age ten to fourteen.• Tommy Newsom (1929-2007) — Saxophonist for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson• Awadagin Pratt — Concert pianist, violinist and conductor, winner of Walter W. Naumburg Foundation

Competition.• Lillian Smith (1897–1966) — Author and social critic (two enrollments, no degree)• David Spelman – Founder and Artistic Director of New York Guitar Festival, music supervisor in the film

industry.• John Charles Thomas (1891-1960) - Opera and concert baritone and member of the Metropolitan Opera company

in the 1930s and '40s.• André Watts — Concert pianist, Grammy winner and professor at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music.• Paul Wells (1888-1927), concert pianist• Hugh Wolff - Conductor, currently on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music.• Charles A. Zimmerman (1861–1916) - Bandmaster at US Naval Academy 1887 to 1916, composer of Anchors

Aweigh.

Notable faculty• Diran Alexanian, cello• Manuel Barrueco, guitar• Garnett Bruce, opera• Elliott Carter (1946–48), composition• Jay Clayton, jazz• David Fedderly, tuba• Leon Fleisher, piano• Asger Hamerik, Director 1871-1898• Michael Hersch, composition• Nicholas Maw (1935–2009), composition• Anthony McGill, clarinet• Gustav Meier, conducting• Edward Palanker, clarinet• Marina Piccinini, flute• Kevin Puts, composition• John Shirley-Quirk, voice• Robert van Sice, percussion• Gary Thomas, Jazz• Barry Tuckwell, horn• Frank Valentino, voice• John Walker, organ

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References[1] http:/ / www. peabody. jhu. edu/[2] Wierzalis, Bill and Koontz, John P., Images of America: Mount Vernon Place (2006) p. 60-61. Arcadia Publishing ISBN 0-7385-4238-5

External links• Official site (http:/ / www. peabody. jhu. edu/ )• Peabody Institute on Google Street View (http:/ / maps. google. com/ maps?f=q& source=s_q& hl=en&

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