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Dr. Melodie G. Galloway holds the Master’s degree from Florida State University in Vocal Performance and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her experience as a conductor and soprano soloist includes opera, music theatre, and a professional vocal ensemble, where she has been a soloist and conductor in Russia, Estonia, Ireland, England, Spain, and for former Presidents Bush and Clinton as part of the White House Christmas celebrations. Currently Dr. Galloway is an assistant professor in music at the University of North Carolina – Asheville where she directs the University Singers, the Chamber Singers, and Studio 18 – a vocal jazz ensemble, and is the Coordinator of Vocal Studies. By special invitation the last 4 seasons, the UNCA Chamber Singers have performed for the Holiday Open House Celebrations at the White House and for the Wounded Soldiers Program at Walter Reed Memorial Hospital. Her career has spanned both coastlines with credits in Seattle, WA, as the director of the Green River College Chamber Singers, professional acting/singing (Sondheim's Side By Side, Majenka in Smetana's The Bartered Bride with Tacoma-Pierce Co. Opera, chorus work for Carmen, Seattle Opera), voice-overs for radio, and studies in theory and composition at the University of Washington. While at FSU she sang Mozart's Requiem under Robert Shaw, and studied with Andre Thomas, Clifford Madsen, and Janice Harsanyi. Her work in the region has included music direction for productions of Ragtime and West Side Story; Carmina Burana, Rutter's Requiem, and Handel's Messiah with University Singers, UNCA Chamber Symphony, the Reuter Center Singers and the Asheville High School Chamber Choir, in collaboration with the Blue Ridge Orchestra and Asheville Youth Symphony. Dr. Galloway is in summer residency as the Director of the Lake Junaluska Singers, a professional 16-member vocal ensemble, which serves as an ambassador choir for the Southeastern Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church. Dr. Galloway is in demand as a choral clinician and adjudicator and as a frequent conference contributor in fields of musical theatre, choral repertoire, vocal pedagogy, and jazz. As an invited speaker in March, 2007, she presented Coloring Outside the Lines: Conflicts and Resolutions in Dave Brubeck’s “Jazzy” Mass as part of the Leeds College of Music International Jazz Conference “Jazz: Inside and Outside.” In October 2008, she was invited to give her paper entitled, Is Less Truly More? Exploring Intimacy and Design in Small-Scale Musical Theatre as part of the global “Music on Stage” Conference, held at Rose Bruford College, Sidcup, Kent, UK.
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