Mary Trotter (MM’13, Vocal Accompanying) accompanied Metropolitan Opera baritone Aaron St. Claire Nicholson, the new artistic director of Opera Coeur d’Alene, for a series of fundraising concerts in November and January, and will serve as Opera Coeur d’Alene’s pianist for their summer cruise series and for their September production of Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West. Trotter is the recipient of a full tuition scholarship for the SongFest summer vocal program at the Colburn School in California this summer, where she will be working with the legendary vocal accompanist and scholar Graham Johnson, Craig Rutenberg, the Head of Music Administration at the Metropolitan Opera, and Alan Smith, Director of Keyboard Collaborative Arts at the USC Thornton School of Music.