The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University

William Waldrop

William Waldrop currently plays keyboards and conducts for the national tour of Cats, which recently played international engagements in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as well as Santiago, Chile. William completed the Master of Music degree in Voice Performance at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in May 2005.  A student of Marianna Busching (voice) and Eileen Cornett (accompanying), William pursued performing, accompanying and musical directing while at Peabody.  William's Peabody Opera Theatre credits include Il Trittico (Gianni Schicchi), the world premiere of If I Were A Voice, Americana, and Nothing but George!, all coached by Eileen Cornett. At Peabody, William accompanied for the Conservatory (voice) and the Preparatory (Young People's String Program and Dance Department), playing in recitals, master classes, juries and ballet classes.  William also received a Peabody Student Career Development Grant to produce, direct, and musically direct a performance of Adam Guettel's Myths and Hymns, which was performed by Peabody voice students.   While in Baltimore, William also worked as a musical director and conductor for the Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre, the St. Paul's Schools (Brooklandville), and Theatre on the Hill (Westminster). He also worked professionally with the national tour of The King and I. 

Daniel Davis 

Jerome Tan

Jonathan Moyer

Jonathan William Moyer has been described by the Baltimore Sun as a "superb organist". He has performed organ recitals in the Baltimore and Washington D.C. region as well as other venues such as the Ocean Grove Great Auditorium in New Jersey, the English cathedrals of Southwark, Gloucester, Blackburn and Norwich. Under the auspices of the La Gesse foundation, he has performed piano and chamber recitals in Toulouse, France, and Verona, Italy as well as Weill Recital Hall in New York City. This fall, he will assume the music position at Epiphany Episcopal Church in Timonium.

Mr. Moyer is pursuing a Doctorate in organ at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University as a student of Donald Sutherland. While at Peabody he has completed both a graduate performance diploma in organ and a Master's degree in piano as a student of Ann Achein. He has served as a coach/assistant to the Peabody Opera and currently serves as assistant conductor in the Choral Department. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in piano from Bob Jones University, where he studied with Laurence Morton. He has attended the organ festivals of Oundle and Cambridge, England, Romainia, Switzerland, and the Summer Organ Academy at the Hochschuler Musik in Leipzig. He has studied organ in Paris with Susan Landale and has appeared in master classes under such masters as Marie-Claire Alain, Guy Bovet, Michael Radelescu, David Craighead, Rudolph Lutz, David Sanger, and Robert Glasgow. He has served on the accompanying staff of the Interlochen School for the Arts and has attended the Middlebury College German Course for singers and vocal coaches program in Connecticut. In 2002, he was one of six finalists in the Arthur Poister organ competition in Syracuse, New York. Fromt he Peabody Conservatory he has been awarded scholarships in the areas of accompanying and organ performance. Academically gifted, he was invited to become a member of the Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society. Sought after as a pianist, organist and conductor, his schedule is filled with collaborations with singers and instrumentalists. He especially enjoys accompanying the Washington D.C. Wagner Society, run by the great Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart.

Jonathan is the second-to-youngest in a family of six boys and one girl, all of who grew up on a farm in Pipersville, Pennsylvania. He still loves corn-on-the-cob, bluegrass music and the smell of fresh cut grass. He is a complete Richard Wagner nut case, which seeps into the very pores of his body and even into his email address.

Matthew Odell

The New Hampshire-born pianist Matthew Odell began his studies at the age of
10 and has since distinguished himself as both a solo and collaborative
pianist.  A strong advocate of the music of our time, he has performed
contemporary repertoire with the New Juilliard Ensemble and with the
American Art Song Festival, an organization he founded in 2004.  Mr. Odell’s
affinity for the music of Olivier Messiaen has been evidenced by
performances of his Couleurs de la cité céleste with the Peabody Camerata,
the Quartet for the End of Time in Alice Tully Hall, and numerous song
cycles and solo piano works.   Mr. Odell is a founding member of the Hampton
Piano Trio, a group actively involved in presenting outstanding works from
the established repertoire alongside newly-commissioned works.  In addition
to performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Weill Recital
Hall at Carnegie Hall, and Alice Tully Hall in New York, Mr. Odell has
appeared at the Aspen Music Festival, New York’s Focus! Festival, the La
Gesse Festival in Toulouse, France, in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia,
and at the International Music Academy in Nice, France, where he was on the
faculty.    Upcoming performances will take him to New York, Chicago,
Washington, D.C., Helsinki, Finland, and Kyoto, Japan, where he will be
performing in the Rohm International Music Festival.

Mr. Odell is currently a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow at the Juilliard School,
where he studies with Margo Garrett, Jonathan Feldman, and Brian Zeger. He
completed his studies with Marian Hahn (piano performance) and Eileen Cornett (collaborative piano) at the Peabody Conservatory of Music,
graduating Pi Kappa Lambda with both a master of music degree and a graduate
performance diploma in piano performance.  He has also studied with
Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and with Ann
Schein at the Aspen Music School.  He has performed in  masterclasses of
Leon Fleisher, Richard Goode, Ian Hobson, Martin Isepp, and the Tokyo String
Quartet.

Mr. Odell has won many awards, including the Sarah Stuhlman Zierler Award,
two Peabody Career Development Grants, the Lucrezia Bori Grant, the Virginia
Allison Accompanying Award, and the La Gesse Foundation Competition.

Kathryn Ananda Owens

Winner of first prize in the 1993 Neale-Silva Young Artists Competition, Kathryn Ananda-Owens enjoys an active career as performer and teacher. A laureate of the American Pianists Association Biennial Fellowship Competition, she made her Asian debut in 1997 under the auspices of the government of Macao. She has performed as a soloist with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, toured internationally as piano soloist with the St. Olaf Orchestra and has appeared at Lincoln Center. A founding member of the New Horizons Chamber Ensemble, Ananda-Owens also performs with the Melius Trio and recently collaborated with members of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in the inaugural concerts of the North American Bridge Festival. She received degrees from Oberlin College, Oberlin Conservatory and the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, where she studied with Julian Martin and accompanying with Eileen Cornett. Her concerts have been broadcast on radio and television on three continents and recorded on the Westmark label.