Project: The Cross-Disciplinary Master Class Series

Project: Diverse Styles and Culturally Relevant Music: The String Repertoire Initiative

VocalMap: Visualizing the History and Trajectory of Contemporary Vocal Music

Create a dynamic and multifaceted open‐source database of the vocal music to be both a comprehensive library of information for composers and performers of new vocal works, as well as a platform for programming, education, and community discourse.

Project: A Street Choir for Baltimore

Virtual Reality at Peabody

Gives prospective students, parents, and others the on-stage and in-studio Peabody experience using immersive, interactive virtual reality technology.

Seeing the voice, Hearing the body

In collaboration with students from the voice and the dance departments at Peabody, create a multi‐disciplinary project to provide a safe space to experience with extended techniques through movement.

Research Project: Impact of Weekly Guitar Lessons on Functional Movement and Well-being in Parkinson’s Disease Patients

Tests the hypothesis that Parkinson’s Disease patients participating in a six-week-long, twice-weekly guitar strumming class with rhythm, pitch, and movement elements will demonstrate significant improvement in quality of life, motor symptoms, upper extremity function, cognition, mood, and social participation.

“The Trace of Life”

Create an interdisciplinary composition which explores issue of life and death by combining computer music composition, neuroscience, instrumental performance, visual arts and solo dance. Performances will be in Baltimore and in Taiwan.

Project: Building a Peabody WeChat Platform: Connecting with Music Students in China

Peabody Student String Ensemble

Develops a member-led, 14-player string ensemble whose performances will take place exclusively in community venues, bringing the beauty of extraordinary music to our neighbors who are in challenging situations, such as cancer treatment, incarceration, substance abuse recovery and homelessness.

Project: Social Issues of Place within the Musical Profession: A Podcast Series

Research project: What are the differences between on-the-spot and prepared improvisation?

Analyzes creativity by testing the hypothesis that jazz musicians given the chance to hear a chord progression and imagine or visualize an improvisation before playing it will perform significantly differently in terms of melodic-harmonic congruency, repetition, sequencing, and overall performance than those asked to improvise “on-the-spot,” with no advance exposure to the chord progression.

Timber

Create a percussion performance, instrument making, and interactive lighting project in partnership with Baltimore Neighborhoods, Inc.

The Listening Lab: A New Model for Orchestral Education Programming

Builds an interactive orchestral education concert that teaches students not just about the music, but how to listen to music. Young audiences will learn listening strategies based on cognitive science, and come away with the tools to experience music in a focused, open, and immersive way.

Hip Hop Music: Production, History, and Practice

Expands the Peabody curriculum to include a new, two-credit course taught by Wendel Patrick in which students will have the opportunity to create and perform hip hop works, study the techniques of today’s masters of the form, and learn about the socioeconomic trends that helped to shape both the music and the culture.

Measuring Operating Forces in String Instruments

Develop a patentable device that can measure minimum operating forces in string instruments to reduce playing related injury.

The Sound of Peabody

Create a promotional flow‐motion film about Peabody that displays the school’s programs as an institute of sound in setting of a modern conservatory.

Project: Composing Pedagogically Appropriate String Quartets for Intermediate Students

Concert Arrangements of Music by Historical Composers of Minority Descent

Edit, transcribe, and arrange music by historical prominent composers of minority descent for modern wind ensemble and make it available to be downloaded for free along with recordings made by the Preparatory Wind Orchestra.

Musician-in-Residence Pilot Project

Creates a pilot program to recruit and place Peabody students in residential senior/retirement communities, where the students receive free lodging and develop their performance skills while the residents benefit from regular live “in-house”music of the highest quality.