"Being a part of CMC has helped me play in ensemble in any style, to teach students important aspects of music like ensemble playing, and to be a leader in many situations."
-- Melanie
 
Tala graduated from Boston University with a BFA in theater. She resides in New York City and works as an actress. She filmed her first movie, Waiting in Beijing, in Beijing and Paris in 2007. She has also appeared in an episode of Law and Order and had a recurring role on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns.
Elika graduated summa cum laude from New York University, where she studied psychology, linguistics, and music; her honors thesis explored how infants learn patterns in music and language. She research psycholinguistics and music cognition in Washington, DC for a year before beginning her doctorate in psychology with a focus on language acquisition at the University of Pennsylvania.
Abigail graduated with honors from Pomona College, majoring in Philosophy and English. She now attends Washington University Law School. Last summer she was an associate at Calfee, Halter & Griswold, a major law firm in Cleveland.
Lizzie received a degree in viola performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and a master's from Rice University. She is a freelance violist in Houston, TX, where she teaches privately and performs with the Houston Grand Opera and the Houston and San Antonio symphonies.
Jayna completed her bachelor's of music education at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She is the new orchestra teacher at Pleasant Run Middle School and Northwest High School in Cincinnati. She also teaches an "exploring music" class to students in grades 6-12 with multiple disabilities.
Kevin is pursuing a degree in double bass performance at Rice University. The past two summers he attended the Tanglewood Music Center, where he worked with James Levine and played with the Boston Symphony. This fall he is participating in an international solo bass competition in Ludwigslust, Germany.
Leah has a bachelor's degree in oboe performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and a master's from Florida State University. She played English horn in the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra and now is an oboist with the U.S. Army Field Band in Washington, DC.
Christina is a graduate of the University of Windsor, where she studied music therapy. She is now a board-certified music therapist based in the Cleveland area, where she works primarily with children with autism.
Carey graduated from Pomona College with a bachelor's degree in economics. He spent a year as a legislative aide for a state representative from Cincinnati and now is a policy analyst for the Ohio House of Representatives.
Erin is pursuing a dual degree in social work and women's studies with a minor in music at The Ohio State University and is currently working with kids at OSU's Nisonger Center, a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities. She also plays with the OSU Symphony Orchestra.
Isabelle went to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver on scholarship and graduated with an honors degree in Classics in 2008. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in international business at the Grenoble Graduate School of Business in Grenoble, France, where she also performs with an orchestra.
Jonathan has degrees from Indiana University and Rice University in viola performance. He has played with numerous symphony orchestras and now is a core section violist in the Louisville Orchestra in Louisville, KY.
Sekhar graduated from Duke University in 2007 with a BS in biology. While at Duke he served as associate concertmaster of the Duke Symphony Orchestra. He is currently an MD candidate at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
Swathi is a junior at Duke University working towards a B.A. in public policy studies, a minor in history, and a certificate in genome sciences and policy. She is also pre-law. She has participated in independent research on the HPV vaccine and won numerous prestigious awards and grants for her work.
Melanie studied commercial violin performance with Tracy Silverman at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. She works at a violin shop on Music Row in Nashville, where she also teaches. She records professionally and tours with the renowned Irish band The Blair Band.
Morgan is pursuing a double degree in violin performance and French at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Music. She is currently studying abroad in Paris at the Sorbonne and the L'Ecole Normale d Musique. You can hear her performing her own music on a CD recently released with Cody Wood entitled Nothin' to It.
John is currently a junior at Florida State University, pursuing an undergraduate degree in violin performance. He attended the Quartet Program in New York in 2007 and the Aspen Music Festival in 2008.
Peace holds a bachelor's of music degree in violin performance from Ohio Wesleyan University. She is the recipient of the Music Teachers National Associate StAR award and maintains a private music studio. Currently she is in the graduate string quartet program at the University of Massachusetts.
Sarah is in her freshman year at Capital University. She is double majoring in biology and Spanish and studies violin with Charles Wetherbee. She is also on Capital University's nationally acclaimed debate team.