The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University

Dana Scott

A versatile performer, Dana Nichole Scott enjoys performing as a collaborative artist and soloist. Recently Ms. Scott and Ms. Sarah Joanne Davis won third prize in the Woodmere Voice Society Competition (NY), and received high marks in the Vocal Arts Society Competition (D.C.). Ms. Scott performed Pirates of Penzance with Owings Mills High School (MD). She also served as the Music Director for FBN Production’s The Three Little Pigs, an opera outreach program based in
Columbia, SC.

Ms. Scott has worked as a pianist for several theatrical productions in the Baltimore area. She performed Douglas Moore's Gallantry with Harbor Opera at the Walters Art Museum and was the dress rehearsal pianist for The Boys from Syracuse with Center Stage (Baltimore, MD). At the Kennedy Center, Ms. Scott worked as a rehearsal pianist with Jerry Herman, Christine Baranski, and Jeff McCarthy in Mame.

Ms. Scott is a winner of the Sidney DeKnight Piano Competition, a national competition committed to promoting aspiring ethnic musicians. She appeared as a soloist with the Imperial Symphony Orchestra in Lakeland, Florida. She was a recitalist on the Mary Baker Eddy Library Millenium Series and the James George Charitable Trust Series in Boston, MA.

Ms. Scott is a current graduate student in Ensemble Arts at Peabody Conservatory under the instruction of Eileen Cornett. At Peabody, she is developing her skills as a collaborative pianist, opera accompanist, and vocal coach. She completed her undergraduate degree in classical piano performance at New England Conservatory with Bruce Brubaker and Gabriel Chodos.

Ms. Scott is a former faculty member at Brookline High School (MA), and University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Currently, she privately coaches voice and teaches piano lessons at Emmanuel United Methodist Church in Laurel, MD where she is the organist.

Interested in developing new audiences for classical music, Ms. Scott performs in intimate and engaging locations that range from small community churches, to libraries, homes, and schools. She devotes her spare time to benefit or community performances.

Ms. Scott’s performances draw upon a diverse repertoire from classical and musical theatre, to contemporary improvisation and gospel.
For more info, contact: dsmusicent@mac.com

 

Mi Yeon Han

MiYeon Han, a native of South Korea, is a second year graduate student at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where she studies collaborative piano with Eileen Cornett. As a graduate assistant for the Peabody Opera Theatre, she has served as assistant coach and pianist for productions of  Le Nozze di Figaro, Les Contes D’Hoffmann, and The Turn of the Screw.

 
Ms. Han received her Bachelor of Arts degree in piano performance from Ewha Women’s University and a Master of Arts degree in accompanying at Hanyang University.  Her teachers include Yeon Hee Choi, Eun Ah Ha, and Hea Eun Suk. In Korea, she worked with the Elshadai Choir and was an assistant teacher at Hanguk Christian Music Conservatory. In addition, she has accompanied numerous choral recitals and has served as a vocal coach at summer music camps in Dusseldorf,  Germany and Vienna, Austria.

YooHee Shin

Ms. Yoohee Shin, a collaborative pianist from Southern California, is recognized as a leading artist of the Korean society in the United States.

Working as both a musician and a business woman, she is currently a president of Piano Plaza, Inc and a director of its Music Academy wherein numerous young students are registered.  She is also a music education and information columnist of The Korea Monitor magazine, and is employed as a concert accompanist by the Washington Soloist Ensemble.

 Ms. Shin started her training in music from an early age at Sun-Hwa Arts School in South Korea. After her immigration, she earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University as a piano major and simultaneously assisted the Opera Department and the Italian language departments as a coach and accompanist.  Other accompanying experience includes rehearsal and concert piano for the Korean-American Young Artists and Los Angeles-Seoul Men's Chorale.  Last summer, she served as a visiting faculty of music department at Hapdong Theological Seminary.

 Ms. Shin has concertized in Seoul, California, Texas, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York and Maryland. She is a winner of numerous solo, concerto and chamber music competitions, including Choonchu Music Competition, a Gala Scholarship recipient of five thousand dollars at Hamilton Music Academy, the Asian-American Orchestra Concerto Competition, and the Southwestern Music Festival Chamber Music Competition.

An active church musician, Ms. Shin has served as musical advisor for church mission trips to Bangladesh, China and Korea.

Her former teachers include Jayung Park in Korea, Ann Perry at University of Southern California, and Seth Knopp at Peabody Institute. Currently, she is in her first year as a graduate student in the Masters of Vocal Accompanying degree program, studying with Eileen Cornett.
 

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Ming-Ching Wu 

 

Ming-Ching Wu, a solo and collaborative pianist from Taiwan, began her music study in both piano and violin in early childhood.  In 2006, Ms. Wu received a merit-based scholarship to attend the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University in Maryland.  Ms. Wu received two Master of Music degrees from Peabody; one in piano performance, studying with Boris Slutsky, and another degree in vocal accompanying with Eileen Cornett.  

As a soloist, Ms. Wu was the winner of the National Taiwan Piano Competition, the Taipei City Competition, and the Baltimore Music Club Piano Competition.  As a collaborative pianist, Ming-Ching Wu has served as coach and rehearsal pianist for Peabody Opera Theatre and Lorin Maazel’s Chateauville Chamber Opera Project, The Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten. She will appear in recital with trombonist Haim Avitsur and cellist Amit Peled this summer.

As the recipient of Vladimir Horowitz scholarship, Ms. Wu will continue her study of collaborative piano at the Juilliard School of Music in the fall of 2008.