Elisa Koehler - Cornet, Stage Director

Biographical Information















Elisa Koehler - Solo CornetElisa Koehler enjoys a versatile musical career as a conductor, trumpeter, and scholar. Currently an Assistant Professor of Music at Goucher College in Baltimore (www.goucher.edu), she conducts the Goucher Chamber Symphony and teaches music history and theory as well as conducting and trumpet. She was appointed Music Director and Conductor of The Frederick Orchestra (www.frederickorchestra.org) in 1997 and is now in her ninth season with the orchestra. An active guest conductor and adjudicator, she has conducted All-County orchestras in six Maryland counties and has served on the judging panel for the National Trumpet Competition (USA). Her articles have appeared in the International Trumpet Guild Journal, Journal of the Conductors Guild, Maryland Music Educator, and the Heritage Band Encyclopedia Supplement. Elisa Koehler served as Recordings Review Editor for the ITG Journal between 2002 and 2005 and has also authored several major research articles for the ITG (www.trumpetguild.org). As a trumpeter, Elisa Koehler currently performs and records with the Lyric Brass Quintet (www.lyricbrass.com), past winners of the Baltimore Chamber Music Competition. She has appeared as soloist with the Columbia Orchestra, the Peabody Wind Ensemble, and the Handel Choir of Baltimore. Also active in historic performance, she has performed and recorded on cornett and natural trumpet with the Washington Cornett & Sackbutt Ensemble, the Orchestra of the 17th Century, Modern Musick, and the Bach Sinfonia. Dr. Koehler holds degrees from the University of Tennessee (M.M.) and the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University (B.M., B.M.E., D.M.A.), and has studied at the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute. Her major teachers include Wayne Cameron (trumpet), Catherine Leach (trumpet), John Spitzer (musicology), and Frederik Prausnitz (conducting).