Since 1995 Carol has served as Music Administrator/Chorus Master for the Chautauqua Opera, overseeing the musical components of the summer season and the young artist program. Carol is also the Music Administrator/Chorus Master for the New Orleans Opera Association (NOOA). During this past year she served as music director and pianist for the company’s popular outdoor concerts at various sites in the metro area. She has won awards for both choral direction and for NOOA’s success in arts education throughout Louisiana and the Gulf Coast. Carol has previously worked for Virginia Opera, Greater Miami Opera (now Florida Grand Opera), Ohio Light Opera and Opera Columbus. She has taught at The Ohio State University and has served on the staffs of Kenyon College and the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. Carol is currently head of the opera department at Loyola University New Orleans, where she has musically prepared and conducted numerous performances. In January 2018, the city of New Orleans hosted the National Opera Association conference, for which Loyola produced Tom Cipullo’s award-winning chamber opera After Life. Carol holds degrees from Indiana University and The Ohio State University, and she pursued a year of study at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique in Brussels, Belgium, as a Rotary Foundation Graduate Fellow. Her piano teachers have included Jorge Bolet, Earl Wild, Richard Tetley- Kardos and Sonja Anschütz.