As a student at Peabody, you’ll have the chance to take your artistic work into the community through a variety of paid and volunteer programs, including mentorship and training opportunities. Along with traditional performances in our concert halls, you can practice programming, partnership, and production skills while shaping your artistic vision through a variety of targeted teaching and performance opportunities in different community settings.
Explore our Community-Based Learning programs and apply through the links below! If you have questions or want to learn more, contact [email protected].
Build skills and experience in teaching artistry, K-12 and higher ed education, and group and private instruction.
InterPlay, a joint venture of the Peabody Institute and University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), connects Peabody graduates with UMBC undergraduates for their mutual benefit.
Peabody composition students volunteer to teach weekly one-on-one composition lessons in local schools.
FWS Teaching Artists support OrchKids students and their musical progress through small group and pull-out private lessons.
Peabody Outreach for Piano Pedagogy (POPP) provides Peabody students the opportunity to teach weekly piano lessons in Baltimore-area schools.
The additional programs linked below also include education components.
Build skills and experience deploying music as a service to support health and well-being, including repertoire and program design and site specific programming.
The Arts in Health Internship at Johns Hopkins Hospital is a competitive, paid program that trains student leaders in the curation and execution of arts in health performances as a member of a growing Arts in Health team.
Incorporate your artistry into the healthcare environment at Johns Hopkins Medicine, either onsite in public lobbies or through virtual program delivery.
Conservatory students live, practice, and perform in local senior living facilities.
The additional programs linked below also include Health & Well-Being componenets.
Build skills and experience in public performance, repertoire and program design, audience interaction and development, site specific programming, and more.
Performers provide ensemble-based music programs for the hospital community, organized in partnership with Johns Hopkins Hospital and other Baltimore-based healthcare facilities.
Conservatory students partner with music therapists to craft accessible, interactive concerts that center freedom of movement, self-expression, and restorative music experiences for the many identities audience members and performing musicians hold.
Students work with Baltimore City's Enoch Pratt Free Library Branches to prepare and present fun, family-friendly concerts for the community.
The Walters Art Museum offers a variety of interdisciplinary, educational, and other performance opportunities for Peabody students.
A student-run, conductorless string orchestra who strive to bring healing and beauty to struggling communities within Baltimore.
Students welcome and entertain travelers as they perform in the hall of Baltimore’s historic Penn Station during the height of rush hour on select Friday afternoons.
This week-long fellowship in collaboration with El Paso Pro Musica provides intensive, real-world training experience for performing musicians.
The additional programs linked below also include performance components.