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February 25 - 27, 2010
  
 
 
 
 

The SCRMC Music Conference is honored to
have Alissa Rowe as the guest conductor of the
2010 SCRMC Honor Choir

  

Vocal Area Coordinator, Conductor of the Southeastern Concert Choir, Voice Instructor

Alissa Mercurio Rowe is an active choral conductor and voice teacher. Since 2002, she has held
instructor positions at Southeastern Louisiana University. During the summers of 2003 and 2004
she served as a member of the All-State voice faculty at Interlochen Arts Academy. She conducts
the Southeastern Concert Choir, Southeastern Louisiana University's premiere choral ensemble,
with which she conducted the world premiere of Theodore Morrison's Canzoni d'amore and Stephen
Suber's His Rhythm! She is active as an adjudicator, has given choral and vocal workshops in the
Midwest and Southeastern states and has conducted numerous Honor Choirs.

Ms. Rowe is also the current Vocal Area Coordinator at Southeastern.  In December of 2006, she
was the featured soprano soloist with Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra for their performance of
Handel’s Messiah. For the past five years, she has performed with the New Hampshire Symphony
Orchestra on their Holiday Concert Series.  Having been a conducting participant in 2002, Ms, Rowe
returned to the Conductor's Retreat at Medomak (Maine) as a soloist and sang two performances
of Barber's Knoxville Summer of 1915. She also performed and recorded three roles in David Schiff's
opera Gimpel the Fool, conducted by Kenneth Kiesler, with Third Angle, Portland Oregon's renowned
new music ensemble. Ms. Rowe is a versatile performer who regularly performs a wide variety of
works such as the Beethoven's Mass in C, Messiah of Handel, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and Schubert's
Mass in G, as well as opera roles in La Cenerentola, The Consul, Magic Flute and La Perichole, among
others. She is also active as a recitalist.

Ms. Rowe holds a Master of Music in Conducting, a Master of Music in Vocal Performance, a Bachelor
of Music in Vocal Performance and Teacher Certification K-12 from the University of Michigan. In
August of 2005, she began course work for a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Conducting at Louisiana
State University in conjunction with her teaching at Southeastern.

 

 

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