(also under the name Scheidel-Austin) Born in Baltimore in 1938, Elizabeth R. Austin (BMI) received her early musical training at The Peabody Conservatory. Grace N. Cushman (Junior Conservatory, Peabody) provided the thorough grounding in Musicianship, which marks Dr. Austin’s musical life. When Nadia Boulanger visited Goucher College (Towson, MD), she awarded the student composer a scholarship to study at the Conservatoire Americaine in Fontainebleau, France, after hearing Austin’s Drei Rilke Lieder. Elizabeth R. Austin has taught composition and theory at various ...