MEET THE ARTISTS
MORGAN MIDDLETON
CREATOR/SINGER
Remember When creator and mezzo-soprano Morgan Middleton has completed her master’s degree in Vocal Performance at the New England Conservatory and has performed as an Apprentice Singer with the Santa Fe Opera. Singing has been her passion for as long as she can remember. Her first solo concert was a brief, impromptu one at the age of five in the check-out line at a Furr’s Supermarket in El Paso, Texas. Although her formal training is as an opera singer, she loves to sing oldies but goodies – musical theater and popular music from back in the day (her grandparents’ day, that is).  Since 2009, she has performed over 150 solo voice concerts for senior citizens in northern Virginia, where she grew up, and southern California, where she graduated from the University of Southern California (USC). In the little free time she has, Morgan enjoys catching up on sleep, watching British period dramas and scouring YouTube for any French bulldog videos she hasn’t yet watched.
CARTER STEVENS
PIANIST
Carter Stevens is a versatile organist, pianist, and educator based in Falls Church, Virginia. He holds a BA in Music from Brevard College where he studied with organists Kyle Ritter and Charlie Steele. Prior to college he studied with Kimberley Hess. Since 2013 he has served as organist at St. Leo the Great Catholic church and has accompanied the choirs of St. Leo’s for national TV Mass tapings at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
As a jazz pianist he has studied with Michael Jefry Stevens, Mark Brandt and Wade Beach. Notable performances include multiple performances at the Kennedy Center Millenium Stage with the Tom Cunningham Orchestra and the Cristian Perez quartet as well as at An Die Musik with the Doug Pierce Band of Brothas.
ALI COOK
BASSIST
Ali Cook is a freelance bassist in Washington D.C., Baltimore, and New York city performing orchestral music, opera, chamber music, new music, and americana. She has toured Germany, Turkey, Spain, and Austria with the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and was a fellow at Tanglewood Music Center. In 2009, she won the Indiana University double bass concerto competition performing Bottesini's Concerto No. 2. Ali holds a Bachelors degree from Michigan State University, a Masters degree in music performance from Indiana University, and a Professional Orchestral Studies degree from Manhattan School of Music. Ali has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Washington National Opera, Spoleto Festival USA, the Alabama Symphony, and at the Salzburger Festspiele.
JAMES PEACHEY
DRUMMER
A native of Washington DC, James got his start playing drums in an eclectic collection of local bands ranging in style from fusion to punk to ska to classic rock. Later when life took him to Illinois he discovered jazz and has been hooked on it ever since. Upon returning to the DC area, he began to specialize in swing and big band in addition to straight-ahead jazz, and has worked with a number of local groups over the years, notably the Tom Cunningham Orchestra and the Blue Sky 5. Today he freelances and also plays regularly with Silver Spring’s own Big Band Tradition. James considers himself to be on a quest to perform in the widest possible variety of settings and is enthusiastic about pursuing this goal. He is off to a good start with performances in supermarkets, prisons, a hair salon, a tennis court, Blues Alley, the Kennedy Center, the Meyerhoff in Baltimore, and outside Lincoln Center.
