Alumni Profiles

Corinne Winters (MM ’07, Voice) has drawn unfettered praise from critics worldwide, had her image recently grace the cover of the Kennedy Center’s magazine, and is booked for international performances for the next couple of years. But for now, she’s conducting an interview on her cellphone while riding a city

J. Ernest Green was happily working as an assistant in orchestral conducting when faculty artist Edward Polochick asked if he’d take on the same role in choral conducting. Lacking vocal experience and worried that it meant losing the stipend he received for orchestral conducting, he initially balked. But Polochick assured

When pianist Mark Markham (BM ’84, MM ’86, DMA ’91, Piano) takes the stage at Carnegie Hall with soprano Jessye Norman on February 14, he’ll be celebrating his 20th year of artistic collaboration with the Grammy Award–winning singer. The duo’s partnership began serendipitously enough. In 1995, Peabody pianist Ann Schein

As a high school student in Northern Virginia, Faye Chiao (MM ’07, Composition) developed an abiding fascination with astrophysics, which eventually translated into a bachelor’s degree in physics from Georgetown University and, more recently, into her 45-minute multimedia dramatic song cycle To See the Stars. Scheduled to premiere at the

Washington Garcia’s saga reads as if lifted from the pages of a vintage Hollywood screenplay: Piano prodigy born and raised in a foreign nation (Ecuador) receives full scholarship to esteemed American music institution (Peabody), thrives as a student while earning two degrees (MM ’98, DMA ’03), goes on to successful

Professional trumpeter and Peabody graduate Elisa Koehler sees trumpets where most of us don’t. Like the symbol on your car’s horn button. “There’s a picture of a bugle there,” notes Koehler (BM ’87, Music Education; BM ’87, Trumpet; DMA ’96, Conducting), who is the Music Department chair at Goucher College