
Dominick Argento (BM '51, MM '54, Composition)
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer
The student body of about 750 students is half graduate students and half undergraduates. Students come from more than 40 states and 30 countries.
Peabody alumni are award-winning composers, recording engineers at the highest levels of their industries, teachers at all levels of education, and performing members and conductors of more than 35 professional orchestras, including the Baltimore, National, Chicago, and Cleveland orchestras, as well as the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics.
Peabody student ensembles have won 13 ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming since 1975.
There are nearly 1,000 solo and ensemble performances and events at Peabody between September and May of each year.
More than 90% of Peabody students receive scholarships.
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer
Grammy-nominated and Latin Grammy-nominated guitarist
Principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic
Longtime bassist of the Charlie Byrd Trio
International opera star
Grammy Award-winning pianist
Grammy Award-winning violist
Grammy Award-winning guitarist
Emmy and Grammy-award winning music producer, engineer, and mixer
Grammy Award-winning Wagnerian bass-baritone
Pianist, artistic director of the Art of the Piano Festival
rising star composer
Grammy Award-nominated harpsichordist
associate concertmaster of the LA Philharmonic
Grammy Award-winning pianist