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Peabody Institute

Performing arts

History of psychotherapy takes center stage

Published Jan 23, 2024

Psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison, composer Michael Hersch, and soprano Ah Young Hong team up for a powerful musical exploration of mental illness and healing

Jordan Prescott instructs a student as they play the pipe organ in Leith Symington Griswold Hall at Peabody Conservatory

Intersession

A pipe dream come true

Published Jan 23, 2024

Peabody teaching associate Jordan Prescott shares his love for pipe organs with Johns Hopkins students during a winter-break course

A Voice for Artistic Youth Empowerment

Published Winter 2023

Baltimore native Alysia Lee, Peab '06 (MM), is recognized at the national level for her work to advance access, equity, and minority representation in the arts. / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Photo of an amp with a volume nob that goes to 11

Q+A

Cutting through the distortion on musician hearing health

Published Oct 30, 2023

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Kris Chesky talks about the musician-specific earplug industry, and what might be done to improve how musicians and their teachers prevent noise-induced hearing loss

People stand in front of a display of record sleeves and CD covers at the BMA's exhibit "The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century"

Hip-hop's indelible influence

Published Summer 2023

A Baltimore Museum of Art's exhibit celebrates hip-hop's impact on culture / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Hopkins Symphony Orchestra music director Jed Gaylin

A maestro marks 30 years with Hopkins Symphony Orchestra

Published Summer 2023

Jed Gaylin, Peab '95 (DMA), discusses his musical milestones / Johns Hopkins Magazine

A rock band plays in the Peabody cafeteria March 10, 2023

Arts+Culture

From pandemic pivot improvisation to Peabody tradition

Published March 22, 2023

Conservatory students return to the cafeteria to commemorate the third anniversary of a spontaneous final performance before the COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020