Some successful alumni

Rhonda Tsoiafatt Bryant, PIANO, Senior Advisor on White House Initiative Educational Excellence for African Americans under President Barack Obama.  Owner, The Moriah Group, Huntsville, AL

Airis McCottry Gill, VIOLIN/PIANO, Director of Internal Affairs, U.S.  General Services Administration, Washington, D. C.

Edwina Findley, PIANO, Actress on ABC, & Oprah’s OWN

Darien Claxton, B.Sc., PIANO, software inventor

Tracy L. Scott, PIANO/CELLO, multi-media journalist, Editor at Gannett | USA TODAY Network.

Anika Sampson Anderson, B.A., and 

Nicole Butler, VOICE, opera singers USA and Abroad

Victoria Alma Castello, M.Mus., PIANO, teacher, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Washington, D.C.

Victor Pile, PIANO, manager, Howard University Food Service, Wash., D.C.

Claudia Malcolm, B.A. (Bus. Admin.), PIANO, performing artist “Kool Keys”

Gerard Limerick, M.D. and Ph.D. PIANO, Resident Physician at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, New Jersey.

Ronald McFadden, PIANO/VOICE, Chairperson, Performing Arts Department, Baltimore County Public Schools.

Nichelle Anderson, B. Sc., R.N., PIANO, VOICE, Neo-Natal Nurse, Holy Cross Hospital, Silver Spring, MD.  Singer in praise teams Emmanuel Brinklow SDA, Brinklow, MD.

Jonathan Adjahoe, A.A. (I.T.) PIANO, STRING BASS, BASS GUITAR, I.T. Specialist at Swinerton Builders, owner of Jonnieface Photography, Sacramento, CA

Anika McKinney Prather, M.M. Founder Living Waters School, District Heights, MD

Pauline McFarlin, PIANO, owner The Dessert Fork (cakes),  Huntsville, AL

Chelsey Henderson, MSW,  Shalisha Vanderhorst, VOICE and PIANO, Social WorkersDanielle Ballard, candidate for doctorate in Education, professor at Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD.

Dr. Cheryl Wilson Bridges, Dr. Anwar G. M. Ottley, David Griffiths, Nicole Anderson, Porsche Vanderhorst, Eddie Cromwell, Brittany Jackson, Danielle & Dionne LaTouche, Wendell Phipps, Jasmine M. Brann, serve as Ministers of Music, Pastors of Worship, organists, pianists, band directors, praise team members and leaders, and liturgical dance directors in at least 8 churches in the DMV plus others around the nation.

Ottley Music School lost one of its students (cello) to cancer in May 2015, Dr. Myschelle Spears, a principal in the Prince George’s County Public School, and a former principal of Sligo Seventh-day Adventist School.

Ottley Music School lost one of its Alumni, and the nephew of Mrs. Ottley and Mr. Adjahoe, in the person of Nathan Anderson, age 25 in a tragic traffic accident on March 25, 2010.  He was the son of Mrs. Ottley’s sister and brother-in-law, Drs. Ruby Ottley Anderson and Gerald Anderson, brother of Nicole (Nikki) and Nichelle Anderson, also OMS alumni.  The Celebration of Life for Nathan was on Ustream and has been viewed over 13,700 times. Many photos can be found on Facebook on Jonathan Adjahoe‘s and Myron Ottley‘s photo pages.  There’s an article written on Nathan in the Jan/Feb 2010 USJ.

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