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5 unusual facts about Peabody Institute


Christopher Fratin

Today, Fratin's sculpture is on permanent display in the Louvre, the city museums of Metz, Lyon, and Nîmes; the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland; and the Georg Eisler archive in Vienna.

Edward Sheffield Bartholomew

Among his best-known works are Blind Homer Led by the Genius of Poetry (1851, now in the Metropolitan Museum), Eve, Campagna Shepherd Boy (Peabody Institute), Genius of Painting, Youth and Old Age, Evening Star, Eve Repentant (Wadsworth Atheneum), Washington and Flora, A Monument to Charles Carroll (near Baltimore), Bellsarius at the Porta Pincinia, and Ganymede.

Frank Valentino

In 1962 he retired from singing and joined the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Music and taught for 15 years until retiring in 1977.

Joel Fan

He began studying piano seriously at the Juilliard School and has received both a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University and a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance from the Peabody Institute.

Sho Yano

She is currently a B.M student majoring in violin performance at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University.



see also

Lyric Opera Baltimore

The 2012-13 season featured La bohème (with Anna Samuil and Timothy Mix), Don Giovanni (in conjunction with the Peabody Institute), and Rigoletto (starring Stephen Powell and Bryan Hymel).