Cincinnati Conservatory of Music

The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music was a conservatory, part of a girls' finishing school, founded in 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio.^[1] It merged with the College of Music of Cincinnati in 1955, forming the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, which is now part of the University of Cincinnati.

The Conservatory, founded by Clara Bauer, was the first music school in Cincinnati.^[2] In 1924, Mr. Burnet Corwin Tuthill, General Manager of the Conservatory, instigated the formation of the National Association of Schools of Music together with five other institutions (American Conservatory of Music, Bush Conservatory of Music, Louisville Conservatory of Music, Pittsburgh Musical Institute, and Walcott Conservatory of Music) at a meeting held on June 10, 1924.^[3]

Noted alumni include singer and actor Aaron Lazar, trumpeter Al Hirt, singer and entertainer Tennessee Ernie Ford, and composer Harold Morris, and Christy Altomare of Spring Awakening fame.

References

• Shotwell, John Brough (1902). A History of the Schools of Cincinnati. The School Life Company. 
• Southern, Eileen (1997). Music of Black Americans. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.. ISBN 0393038432. 
• Tuthill, Burnet Corwin (1963). NASM -- The First Forty Years - A Personal History of the National Association of Schools of Music LC:ML27.U5 N2634. Washington, DC: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS OF MUSIC. 

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