Welcome to the Alumni Connection Page
at the American Conservatory of Music!

We welcome our Alumni to this special area devoted to our Alumni! The Conservatory has certainly earned a splendid reputation through the remarkable achievements which you have forged subsequent to the high quality pedagogy that this Conservatory prepared for you. Now, we have created this gathering place for our devoted Alumni, to visit your Alma Mater, the American Conservatory of Music.

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Notable recent graduates are among the following:

The soloist who appeared on the CBS television network under Leonard Bernstein and Alfredo Antonini; appeared as director and soloist at Carnegie Hall, Leipzig Gewandhaus and other distinguished performing arts centers; and former member of Krainis Consort and New York Pro Musica

The director of the world renowned Fisk Jubilee Singers

The immediate past director of the United States Navy Band

A world renowned Korean composer and department chair at a renowned South Korean University

The noted organist from Germany who is now head of the organ department at UCLA

A choral director who was a direct protege of Robert Shaw

The Tenor who sings regularly and currently with the Berlin Oper and the New York Metropolitan Opera

The immediate past president of the Association of Concert Bands

The retired president of the Royal Canadian College of Organists, the equivalent Canadian counterpart of the American Guild of Organists

The noted organ soloist who is now head of the organ department at Fisk University

News Release: Dr. Edith Borroff Receives the 2005 Pinnacle of Achievement Award for Music

Congratulations, Dr. Borroff!
For more information, read the press release here.

Eternal be their memory:

Dr. Marc Alan Peterka, DMA, Organ. Date of death: June 23, 2005. An accomplished organist and choirmaster, Dr. Peterka published his own arrangements of classical and religious music, together with some of his own compositions. At the time of his passing, he was organist and choir director at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Ramona, California.

Eun Mi Kwon, MM, Piano. Date of death: June 6, 2011. Ms. Kwon was an extraordinary artist, whose heartfelt and expert interpretations ministered to the depths of the human soul.

Gordon "G.R." Snow, MM, Voice. Date of Death: July 23, 2011. Beginning at an early age, Mr. Snow led a prolific life of music and touched many souls with an inspiring leadership and zeal for the art. He performed with the Dupage Opera Company, Da Corneto Opera Company, the Grant Park Symphony chorus, and appeared as soloist with the Chatham Choral Ensemble. He was also, for many years, the Director of Music at Hickory Hills Presbyterian Church, the Senior Artistic Director of the Northwest Indiana Youth Chorus, and the Artistic Director of the Greater Chicago Opera Guild.

Dr. Robert Mahaffey, DMA, Organ, Date of Death: February 6, 2011. Dr. Mahaffey served as Choir Director and Organist at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Lighthouse Point, Florida. For many years he was a national examiner for the American Guild of Organists. Known by all who were familiar with his immense contributions as a devoted church musician, Dr. Mahaffey imbued, in every member of his choruses, a true sense of reverence, purity and holiness in their service to God through liturgical musical worship and taught them to agree with those wise words of St. Augustine: "He who sings (for the Lord Jesus Christ) prays twice."
More shall be added to this page, to make it an even better place to visit! Please bear with us while we build a better Alumni Connection Page.