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 through free music and dance performances from the accomplished artists and renowned guests of one of the country’s leading conservatories.
The Peabody Performance Series offers the greater Washington, D.C., community free 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. 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.
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About the Peabody Conservatory
A leading voice at the intersection of art and education, 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.
Peabody Conservatory was founded in 1857 as the first conservatory in the U.S., and 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.
Today, 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.
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 proscenium stage with a sprung floor; an enhanced, adaptable acoustic system; and sound-absorbing walnut panel walls.
