Bio

Diane Schaming, mezzo-soprano, is a native of Bernardsville, New Jersey. She received a Bachelor's Degree in Music Education in 2007 from Syracuse University, and a Master's Degree in Voice in 2009 from The Peabody Conservatory.  

Performance highlights include touring China with the Hendricks Chapel Choir, singing in the European premiere of American composer Luigi Zaninelli's opera Snow White at the Teatro Communale in Florence, Italy, and performing with the Peabody Renaissance Ensemble.  Miss Schaming has been a chorister with the Syracuse Opera and Baltimore Opera for Carmen, Aida, and Norma. She has studied vocal pedagogy with Richard Miller at his Institute of Voice Performance Pedagogy, studied and performed in Urbania, Italy, with Millikin University's Bella Musica program, and studied German Lieder at AIMS in Graz, Austria.  She was awarded a prize from the Ernst Bacon Society in 2006. Mrs. Bacon said of Miss Schaming's performance of her late husband's songs: "my husband would have been happy to have heard his songs sung so beautifully" with a "lovely, velvety quality that warmed many hearts on a cold night."

At Peabody, Miss Schaming was seen on the opera stage as La Soeur Ainee in Milhaud's Les Malheurs d'Orfee and as Annina in La Traviata.  On the concert stage, she enjoys performing contemporary works.  She is a winner of the Phyllis Bryn-Julson Prize for Commitment to and Performance of 20th/21st Century Music, having performed works of Ligeti, Schoenberg, and student composers, while at Peabody.

Miss Schaming is the alto soloist at Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, in Baltimore.  Under the direction of John Walker, she has performed many choral masterpieces, including the alto solos in Bach's Actus Tragicus (BWV 106), Mendelssohn's Elijah, and most recently the Brahms Alto Rhapsody.  She is a full-time general/vocal music teacher at Shady Spring Elementary School, in the Baltimore County Public Schools system.