The 2015 recipient of the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award, Dr. Stanley Cornett, tenor, is in his thirty-sixth year as a member of the Voice Faculty at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. His studio is comprised of singers of all voice types and degree levels, and for thirty years he also taught classes in Vocal Pedagogy and Oratorio Literature. He was previously Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Michigan School of Music, was Co-Director of the Seagle Music Colony, and a regular voice faculty and master class teacher at The Amalfi Coast Music & Arts Festival in Italy. Through his work as a teacher and pedagogue, Dr. Cornett has helped many singers place in major vocal competitions and perform in important venues nationally and internationally. In March 2022, three alumnae (2 sopranos, 1 mezzo soprano) were National Semi-Finalists in the Metropolitan Opera Council/Lamont Competition on the stage at the Met, with two advancing to the Grand Finals, and one being named a Grand Finals Winner. Also this year, another soprano alumna was named an Adler Fellow with the San Francisco Opera, a recent tenor alumnus was Finalist in the Premiere Opera International Vocal Competition, a current soprano graduate student was a Finalist in the Jensen International Vocal Competition and a Prize Winner in the Camille Coloratura Competition, and since October, 2021 a talented baritone alumnus is currently playing the title role of Aladdin in the musical Aladdin on Broadway.

As a performer, Stanley Cornett has enjoyed a versatile performing career of more than thirty-five years in repertoire spanning nine centuries and myriad genres, and has consistently been praised by the press for his beauty of tone and elegant style. Performing over thirty operatic roles, he has appeared with the New York City Opera, Washington Opera, Baltimore Opera, Mobile Opera, and Hawaii Opera Theatre, among others. He has been soloist with many of America's major orchestras with conductors including Robert Shaw, Christopher Hogwood, and Eduardo Mata, with such orchestras as the Dallas, Atlanta, San Diego, Charleston, New Mexico, Omaha, National and Baltimore symphonies, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He has performed as tenor soloist at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and Alice Tully Hall with the Oratorio Society of New York and Musica Sacra; at Symphony Hall in Boston with the Handel and Haydn Society and Chorus Pro Musica; the Bethlehem Bach Festival, the Rochester Bach Festival, the

Smithsonian Chamber Players, and the Aldeburgh Festival in England, as well as extensively in Washington D.C. and Baltimore at the Kennedy Center, Washington National Cathedral, Meyerhoff Hall, and with every major choral group in the area. Dr. Cornett has been featured in national television and radio broadcasts with the Louisville Bach Society, the Library of Congress Concert Series, NPR, and PBS. He was previously Winner of the Oratorio Society of New York Competition, and Finalist in the prestigious Walter Naumburg Competition and the Young Concert Artists Competition. Dr. Cornett was represented by IMG Artists Management, and recordings are available on Spotify and YouTube.