Peabody Performance series
The performing arts bring ideas to life and catalyze conversation and community building.
At the Hopkins Bloomberg Center you can experience the power of the performing arts with free music and dance performances from the accomplished artists and renowned guests of one of the country’s leading conservatories. The Peabody Performance Series, presented by the Peabody Conservatory, offers the greater D.C. community daytime and evening concerts across a wide range of styles, techniques, and traditions, as well as engaging conversations with leading creatives about important issues and ideas in the performing arts sector and throughout society.
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From beloved, classic repertoire to exciting contemporary works, Peabody Performance Series programs spark dialogue by introducing universal themes and ideas in the common language of humanity. Enjoy the opportunity to reflect, react, and recharge through the arts. Click here for tickets to our upcoming public performances.
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About the Peabody Conservatory
Founded in 1857 as the first conservatory in the U.S., The Johns Hopkins Peabody Conservatory has remained a leader at the intersection of art and education through its focus on excellence and innovation, training musicians and dancers in the core traditions central to the conservatory experience, as well as introducing historically underrepresented and emerging American artistic traditions into the curriculum.
Peabody advances a dynamic, 21st-century model of the performing arts, empowering musicians and dancers from diverse backgrounds to create and perform at the highest level. Courses of study range from classical and jazz performance, ballet, and modern dance to cutting-edge programs in acoustics, recording arts and sciences, and music for new media, taught alongside the Conservatory’s signature Breakthrough Curriculum, a career development framework that prepares citizen-artists to help shape the future of the field and serve their communities. A division of Johns Hopkins, one of the world’s preeminent research universities and medical institutions, Peabody provides opportunities for interdisciplinary studies through its dual degree program and important initiatives in both arts-in-healthcare and clinical care for performing artists.
A leading voice at the intersection of art and education, Peabody is also a convener of critical discourse, providing platforms for a broad range of artistic perspectives to engage with current issues and critical ideas in the cultural sector. Learn more about The Johns Hopkins Peabody Conservatory.
The Hopkins Bloomberg Center Theater
The 375-seat theater on the building’s ground floor, designed by Ennead Architects, featuring interior finishes by Rockwell Group and lighting design by SmithGroup, is home to the Peabody Performance Series, as well as special events, film screenings and presentations. Designed for patrons to enjoy music and dance performances, the theater includes a 640 sq ft proscenium stage with a sprung floor; 7,000 sq ft of backstage support; an enhanced, adaptable acoustic system; and sound-absorbing walnut panel walls. Equally as stunning as the theater’s warm interior, is the exterior wrapped with a 2,000-square-foot, site-specific commissioned installation from Elias Sime that weaves thousands of electronic panels and keyboards together into a tapestry.
