Terence Blanchard is set to receive the George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music and Dance in America.
. Blanchard received his first Primetime Emmy nomination last year for outstanding music composition for a documentary series or special forIn his work, Blanchard frequently gives voice to socio-cultural issues and racial injustice. His second “opera in jazz,”New York Times
journalist Charles M. Blow about his struggles to overcome a cycle of violence. The work opened the Metropolitan Opera’s 2021-22 season—the first time a project by an African American composer graced the Met’s stage in its 136-year history., premiered at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis in 2013 and is currently on stage at the Met. As a trumpeter, he began his career touring with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra in his teenage years before taking Wynton Marsalis’ place in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers.
Blanchard’s work as an educator includes serving as the Kenny Burrell Chair in Jazz Studies at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, and subsequent roles at The Berklee College of Music, the Henry Mancini Institute at the University of Miami and The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. This year marks the Peabody Conservatory’s 141st graduation exercises. The undergraduate ceremony begins at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 24. A second ceremony for graduate degrees follows at 2 p.m. Both ceremonies will take place in Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall on the Peabody Institute’s Baltimore campus. In-person attendance is ticketed and reserved for graduates and their families and guests; both ceremonies will also be available to view via livestream.
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