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. Ms. Schaming has been a chorister with the Syracuse Opera and Baltimore Opera. 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 Ms. 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." She was also 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.
As alto soloist at Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, in Baltimore, Ms. Schaming performed many choral masterpieces, including the alto solos in Bach's Actus Tragicus (BWV 106), Mendelssohn's Elijah, and the Brahms Alto Rhapsody. Since moving to Glen Ridge in 2016, she is happy to have found a musical home with the Glen Ridge Choral Society and Glen Ridge Congregational Church Chancel Choir.