is in demand as coach, music director, and collaborative artist; she performs extensively throughout the US, South America, and Europe as duo partner and chamber musician. A frequent guest pianist, coach and conductor, Dr. Chowning is heard annually at summer festivals such as the Bar Harbor Music Festival, Mozart in the Knobs, and regularly performs as collaborative pianist at conventions of the National Flute Association, NASA and the International Double Reed Society. Internationally, she has been guest coach for the American Institute of Music Studies in Graz, Austria and Teatro Bicentenario in San Juan, Argentina, as well as invited artist for ABRAF in São Paulo, Brazil and the Mitad al Mundo Festival in Quito, Ecuador. Dr. Chowning has lectured and performed for Road Scholars, Uniworld cruises and been broadcast on Public Television and Radio. As a founding member of Trio Village, she is passionate about bringing music, especially from under-represented composers to diverse audiences and venues. 
Dr. Chowning has prepared opera and musical theater productions at the professional, young artist, and collegiate level. She has served on the music staff of Indianapolis Opera, Lyric Opera Cleveland, Opera Cleveland, Finger Lakes Opera, Kansas City Lyric Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, the Bar Harbor Music Festival and Cleveland Opera where she created and prepared nationally recognized opera educational programs for performance in schools across Northeast Ohio. She has served on faculties of the Cleveland Institute of Music, Simpson College, Oklahoma City University, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and her students and private coaching studio singers can be heard in young artist programs, in opera houses such as the Metropolitan Opera, Minnesota Opera, San Francisco Opera, and Utah Opera, on cruise ships worldwide, and both off and on Broadway.
As founder of In-tune Artistry, Dr. Chowning coaches professionals in the arts and beyond to unlock their full performance power and achieve theirs and their organizational goals. Her unique approach to wellness draws on her experiences as a 500 YTT yoga teacher, stretch coach, and multi-certified sound healer and Breathwork guide. Dr. Chowning has presented breath and movement workshops at institutions such as Ball State University, Columbia College, Washburn University, UNC Charlotte, and in numerous online coaching and audition programs. She teaches regular weekly yoga classes and leads monthly Breathwork events in different Muncie locations.
Dr. Chowning is currently the vocal coach at Ball State University and Chorus Master for Indianapolis Opera. She is a founding member of Trio Village, an all-female chamber music group committed to performing and commissioning works by historically under-represented composers. She loves exploring and working at the intersection of breath, wellness, and artistry. 
Dr. Chowning holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from Northwestern University, a Master of Music in Collaborative Piano from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Accompanying and Vocal Coaching with a cognate in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.