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Peabody 150th Anniversary Gala
Peabody crowned the celebration of its 150th Anniversary with a Gala
evening on Saturday, April 26th, attended
by more than 500 patrons, friends, alumni, faculty and students.
The evening raised $150,000
for the George Peabody 150th Anniversary Scholarship Fund to provide
student financial aid.
» See photos and the commemoration video
Commencement 2008
The Peabody Conservatory celebrated its graduating students with a commencement ceremony on May 22, 2008. The graduating class was addressed by noted creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson who was presented with the George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music in America.
» Sir Ken Robinson's remarks (mp3, 17:53)
» More on Robinson and the George Peabody Medal
Performing
The Conservatory Project
Students from the Peabody Conservatory's chamber music, jazz and voice departments perform at the Kennedy Center. Watch the video (RealPlayer, 1:19:17)
Community Outreach
When Bach meets Hip Hop
They can hear the music in their heads. But how to get it written—and performed? That’s where the student volunteers in Peabody’s Junior Bach program come in. Read more...
The Creative Access
The Creative Access is a volunteer student organization of the Peabody Conservatory dedicated to enriching the lives of disadvantaged audiences in the Baltimore community. Read more...
Musical Partnerships
The Maestra as Mentor
A pioneering partnership between Peabody and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has brought Joey Young from South Carolina to learn at the side of conducting’s greats. Read more...
Instant Encore
Peabody has begun a partnership with music website InstantEncore.com.
With the goal of being "the world’s leading resource for delivering and
enjoying live classical music anywhere and anytime" InstantEncore.com
can be used to keep up-to-date with concerts locally and nationally,
download music from a variety of artists and orchestras, and keep
abreast of the classical music world using a range of interactive tools.
Currently,
a selection from this year's opening concert is available to download
for free, and we will be adding more music in the near future.
http://www.instantencore.com/peabody
Peabody and Johns Hopkins
This is Your Brain on Jazz
Students from the Peabody Conservatory took part in a study conducted
by Johns Hopkins scientists into the nature of spontaneity and
creativity. Heading up the study was Charles J. Limb, M.D., assistant professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who is a trained jazz saxophonist and also serves on the faculty of the computer music department at Peabody. Three Peabody jazz students played a specially designed
piano inside an MRI machine for the scientists to measure their brain
activity.
"Brain scans tune in to personal nature of improvising music" USA Today, March 4, 2008
"This Is Your Brain On Jazz: Researchers Use Mri To Study Spontaneity, Creativity" Johns Hopkins Medicine
International Reach
Singapore Conservatory
In 2001, the Peabody Institute and Johns Hopkins University broke new ground with the creation of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (YSTCM), in collaboration with the National University of Singapore (NUS). The first such partnership between an American conservatory of music and a leading Asia-Pacific university, the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music opened its doors in 2003 to an inaugural class of music and composition students. At the end of 2007, the two universities renewed their agreement ensuring a continued partnership for years to come.
St. Petersburg Conservatory
In a continuing international liaison between Peabody and the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Vera Danchenko-Stern, who coaches Russian diction at Peabody, is hosting winners of prestigious international competitions. The students, winners of the International Tchaikovsky and the Opera St. Petersburg competitions, will be touring Peabody and performing in the Masterpieces of Russian Vocal Music series for the Russian Chamber Art Society. As part of the relationship, Peabody students traveled to Russia in 2002 and 2005 to perform for the International Festival of the Conservatories in St. Petersburg.
