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 program, 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!
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.
The Inspired Aging Fellowship is a competitive, paid training program for graduate and undergraduate students who seek to develop artistic enrichment in the lives of senior citizens.
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.
Music for a While is an unpaid performance opportunity for musicians who wish to incorporate their artistry into the healthcare environment at Johns Hopkins Medicine, either onsite in public lobbies or through virtual program delivery.
Peabody's Musician-in-Residence program places Conservatory students in local senior living facilities.
Students work with the Baltimore City Library Light Street Branch 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.
The Peabody String Sinfonia is a student-run, conductorless string orchestra who strive to bring healing and beauty to struggling communities within Baltimore.
Students serve as ambassadors for the city of Baltimore, welcoming and seeing off travelers as they perform in the hall of Baltimore’s historic Penn Station during the height of rush hour on select Friday afternoons.
Peabody’s Sound Rounds program brings musical services to patients’ bedsides at Johns Hopkins Hospital to provide comfort and companionship through music.
This weeklong fellowship in collaboration with El Paso Pro Musica provides intensive, real-world training experience for performing musicians.
The Arts in Health Fellowship 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.
The Creative Access Fellowship is a competitive, paid program that trains student leaders in community partnership development and the curation and execution of interactive performances. CA Fellows support students looking for volunteer performance opportunities in the community.
In collaboration with The Musical Autist, Peabody’s Sensory Friendly Performance Project provides a pre-formed undergraduate or graduate chamber ensemble with the opportunity to plan, rehearse, and execute an interactive performance experience which is fully accessible to those on the autism spectrum.
Various Peabody studios facilitate integrated community engagement programs and learning opportunities. Explore programs in your area of study below.
Peabody harpists bring the harp and harp lessons into Baltimore-area schools.
Peabody composition students volunteer to teach weekly one-on-one composition lessons in local schools.
Interactive opera performances are staged in schools all across Maryland.