NEVILLA E. OTTLEY, B.Mus.Ed., M.Mus., founder and main piano instructor and voice coach, has taught music (as well as opera, music of Black composers, and English as a second language to Spanish-speaking students) for over 30 years. She taught at half a dozen colleges and music schools and has an A.A. in Spanish and French from Caribbean Union College, B.Mus. Ed. and M.A. (organ/music history) from Andrews University in Michigan, and M.Mus. in conducting from The Catholic University of America in D.C., and certificates from various American Symphony Orchestra League Conducting Workshops.

As a conductor of chorus and orchestra, she has appeared home and abroad with The Nevilla Ottley Singers, Takoma Park Symphony, Arlington Metropolitan Chorus, the Cleveland Singers, Metropolitan Symphony Steel Orchestra, and the Kennedy Center's 1994 "Messiah" Sing-Along with soloists, choir and orchestra.

Ms. Ottley masterminded the 1995 Washington area William Grant Still Centennial Celebration with 17 organizations including the National Symphony, the Kennedy Center, the Lincoln Theatre, as well as her singers, and George E. Peters School Choir. In 1992 she established the Kwame Awards honoring peoples of color in the classical performing arts. In 1976 she began the weekly radio show Classics of Ebony featuring black composers of classical music. It was aired over WGTS-FM [91.9], Sundays until July 20, 1997, when the station changed format. In 1994 Ms. founded Classics of Ebony Publishing, Inc. to publish music and books for all ages on the subject of Black composers and artists, opera and Biblical women stories. In 1997 ad 1998 Ms. Ottley produced five shows of Scott Joplin's three-act opera, Treemonisha casting elementary students grades 3 to 8 and high school singers in roles along side the professionals.

She has served as a organist, choir director, minister of music in several Christian denominations, and is a member of several national organizations such as the American Choral Directors Association and American Symphony Orchestra League. Ms. Ottley also served 2 terms on the Advisory Board of the Maryland State Arts Council.

The other faculty members in the OM School are: