About this Artist

Dan Trahey is the co-creator of The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s OrchKids and founder and director of Tuned In at the Peabody Conservatory. He is a musician, composer, educator, and a social change trailblazer. Throughout the United States, South America, Africa, and Europe, Trahey has been an entrepreneur and architect for socially conscious and artistically progressive music programs. As an implementer of programs that use music as a vehicle for social change, Trahey is highly sought after to educate, advocate, and design programs across the nations. In those programs, Trahey cultivates opportunities to use creative youth voice and community voice as a key ethos.

Trahey currently directs Tuned In at The Peabody Institute, is a Senior Faculty Advisor with the Academy of Impact through Music (AIM), and the Director of the Youth Ambassador Program for El Sistema USA.

In 2024, Dan was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Colombia to work with the social change program ‘Batuta,’ focusing on collective composition and creative youth voice development.