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Cover art from "Fires in the Dark"

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

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

Jacob Yoffee (left) and Roahn Hylton pose in front of sound mixing equipment

Music

Sounds of the '60s

Published Winter 2021

Peabody alum Jacob Yoffee co-composes the score for the new Wonder Years reboot / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Jacob Yoffee (left) and Roahn Hylton pose in front of sound mixing equipment

Music

Sounds of the '60s

Published Dec 10, 2021

Peabody alum Jacob Yoffee co-composes the score for the new Wonder Years reboot

Performing Arts

Equity in opera

Published Fall 2021

IN Series opera company, led by a Peabody alum, launches the Cardwell Dawson Residency Program for singers of color / Johns Hopkins Magazine

2020 Hopkins-affiliated Grammy nominees

Music

Three with Peabody ties receive Grammy nominations

Published Nov 22, 2019

Guest faculty members Chris Cerrone and Harold Meltzer are nominated, as is music by alum Jake Runestad

Pushing against the rep

Published Spring 2016

Violinist Courtney Orlando didn't want to master the standard repertoire; she's forged a big career anyway / Johns Hopkins Magazine

A gathering of the new

Published Winter 2015

Young composers, performers, writers, and music fans will descend on Peabody Institute's Mount Vernon campus in January / Johns Hopkins Magazine

CONVERSATION

What I've Learned: Roger Brunyate

Published Aug 4, 2015

Peabody's accomplished opera director recalls his career as a 'perpetual amateur'