Michelle Graveline
Music Director

Michelle Graveline, Music Director, is active as a conductor, teacher and organist in Massachusetts. Professor of Music at Assumption College in Worcester, MA in Worcester and Chair of the Department of Art, Music & Theater, Dr. Graveline has been teaching and conducting at that institution since 1984. She received the B. Mus. and M.S.M. degrees from Boston University and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan.

Dr. Graveline is in her tenth season with the Salisbury Singers. Under her direction, the chorus has more than doubled in size and performed to critical acclaim. Works presented with orchestra in the last few years include Mozart Requiem, Handel Coronation Anthems, Mendelssohn Elijah, Bach Mass In B Minor, Verdi Requiem, Haydn Mass In Time Of War, Bernstein Chichester Psalms, Merryman Jonah, and Orff Carmina Burana. She has also prepared choruses for performances with the Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra and the Thayer Symphony Orchestra, and guest-conducted at a number of Holiday Pops Concerts with the Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Graveline was Music Director of the Polymnia Choral Society of Melrose from 2002 to 2007.

With the Assumption College Choralea select, auditioned concert choir, and the Assumption College Community Chorus, a faculty/staff/alumni chorus, Dr. Graveline has performed numerous works for chorus and orchestra, including Haydn Creation, Beethoven Mass in C and Choral Fantasy, Fauré Requiem, Poulenc Gloria, Mozart Requiem, and Handel Messiah. She has led the Assumption College Chorale on nine national and international concert tours, performing in Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Russia, and Greece. The Chorale has sung at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, and has twice had the distinction of performing for Pope John Paul II.

Dr. Graveline has worked with such distinguished conductors as Robert Page, Harold Faberman, Vance George, Margaret Hillis, Gregg Smith and Dale Warland. She has been a conducting fellow at several prestigious conducting institutes affiliated with Chorus America, and at the Conductors Institute at Bard College. She has guest-conducted massed choirs at American Choral Directors Association collegiate festivals, community chorus festivals, the American Guild of Organists Region I Convention, the Central Mass. High School Choral Festival, and the Central Mass. Symphony Holiday Pops. She has served as an adjudicator and given vocal clinics for Mass. Instrumental and Choral Conductors state festivals and as adjudicator for the Massachusetts All-State Vocal Auditions. She is currently President-elect for the Mass. American Choral Directors Association, and has organized vocal health workshops and written articles for that organization.

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