Suhnne Ahn

Since 1997 Suhnne Ahn has served on the musicology faculty at Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. For over a decade she was also as a residential dean at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Beginning as a pianist and music major at Yale, she completed a doctorate at Harvard with a dissertation on Beethoven’s so-called “Kreutzer” Sonata. Dr. Ahn has taught a range of music history seminars at Peabody including those on the compositional process of Beethoven, the early history of the Paris Conservatory, the chamber works of Brahms, and the influence of England’s Queen Elizabeth I on music throughout the centuries. Film courses on Katharine Hepburn and Asian representation in Hollywood are also offered by Dr. Ahn in Peabody’s Liberal Arts Department. Beyond Beethoven sketch studies, her research endeavors are directed toward a web-based critical edition of the violin concerti of Parisian composers Baillot, Kreutzer, and Rode. Dr. Ahn has been the Director of the Peabody at Homewood Music Minor Program at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins since 2018.