Dominick Argento (BM '51, MM '54, Composition)
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer
Notable Alumni & Fast Facts
Fast Facts
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.
Notable Alumni of the Peabody Conservatory
Manuel Barrueco (BM '75, Guitar), Professor of Guitar
Grammy-nominated and Latin Grammy-nominated guitarist
Carter Brey (BM '76, Cello)
Principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic
Joe Byrd (TC, BM '62, Bass)
Longtime bassist of the Charlie Byrd Trio
Richard Cassilly
International opera star
Angelin Chang (DMA '98, Piano)
Grammy Award-winning pianist
Kim Kashkashian (BM '73, Viola)
Grammy Award-winning violist
Michael Hedges
Grammy Award-winning guitarist
Lawrence Manchester (BM '94, Percussion; BM '95, Recording Arts and Sciences)
Emmy and Grammy-award winning music producer, engineer, and mixer
James Morris ('68, Voice)
Grammy Award-winning Wagnerian bass-baritone
Awadagin Pratt (PC ’89, Piano; PC ’89, Violin; GPD ’92, Conducting)
Pianist, artistic director of the Art of the Piano Festival
Elijah Daniel Smith (MM ’20, Composition)
rising star composer
Jory Vinikour (’83, Piano)
Grammy Award-nominated harpsichordist
Bing Wang
associate concertmaster of the LA Philharmonic
Andre Watts (AD ’72, Piano)
Grammy Award-winning pianist