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 Donna M. Di Grazia
Professor of Music
Thatcher 211,
(909) 607-2452,
dmd04747@pomona.edu
Expertise Profile
Donna M. Di Grazia is Professor of Music at Pomona
College. Recipient of the college’s Wig Distinguished
Professor Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2003, she
teaches courses in music history for majors and non
majors (including Music 58/158, 120a, and 120b), and is
the principal conductor of the Pomona College Choir
(Music 31) and the Pomona College Glee Club (Music 32).
A northern California native, Di Grazia received her
B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of California,
Davis, where she studied choral conducting with Albert
McNeil and musicology with D. Kern Holoman. She received
her Ph.D. in musicology from Washington University, St.
Louis, where she completed her dissertation on
nineteenth-century Parisian concert societies and their
choral repertoires; she studied there with Hugh
Macdonald, Michael Beckerman, and Craig Monson. As a
conductor, she has been associated with numerous
university and professional choruses, and has assisted
various internationally known conductors including
Albert McNeil, Martin Neary, and Thomas Peck. Along with
these responsibilities, she is an active musicologist
and published scholar, and her research in the areas of
nineteenth-century music and seventeenth-century English
music has received support from numerous sources
including the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her
work has appeared in various publications of national
and international standing, including
Nineteenth-Century Music, Dictionnaire de la
musique en France au XIX siècle, and NOTES;
her two most recent articles are scheduled to appear in
2009 in journals published by Oxford University Press.
Di Grazia is also an active choral musician, having sung
for nine years with the Grammy©
award-nominated St. Louis Symphony Chorus and its more
select Chamber Chorus, where she sang under such
internationally acclaimed conductors as Leonard Slatkin,
Nicholas McGegan, Robert Shaw, Erich Leinsdorf, Thomas
Peck, and Helmut Rilling. More recently, she has
appeared in choral performances in Los Angeles with
Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, and in various venues
throughout southern California with the Los
Angeles-based professional choir, the Millennium Consort
Singers, of which she is a founding member.
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