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 Donna M. Di Grazia
Associate Professor of Music
Thatcher 211,
(909) 607-2452,
dmd04747@pomona.edu
Expertise Profile
Donna M. Di Grazia is an Associate Professor of Music at
Pomona College. Recipient of the college’s Wig
Distinguished Professorship Award for Excellence in
Teaching in 2003, she teaches courses in music history
for majors and for non majors (Music 50, 51, 58, 59,
120a, 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
Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees from the University
of California, Davis, where she studied choral
conducting with Albert J. McNeil and musicology with D.
Kern Holoman. She received her Ph.D. in musicology from
Washington University in St. Louis, where she completed
a dissertation on nineteenth-century Parisian concert
societies and their choral repertoires; she studied
nineteenth-century music there under Hugh Macdonald and
Michael Beckerman. She has been associated with numerous
university and professional choruses as a singer and
conductor, and has assisted internationally known
conductors including Albert McNeil, Martin Neary, and
Thomas Peck. In addition to her full schedule as a
choral conductor, she is an active musicologist and a
published scholar, with articles and reviews in various
publications including Nineteenth-Century Music;
Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XIX siècle;
The Reader’s Guide to Music: History, Theory, and
Criticism; The Journal of the American Liszt
Society; The Choral Journal; and NOTES.
Her research in the areas of nineteenth-century music
and seventeenth-century English sacred music has
received support from several external agencies
including the National Endowment for the Humanities
(2003, 2002, 1998, 1995) and the Southern Regional
Education Board (1997), as well as by numerous internal
grants from Davidson College and Pomona College. She is
also an active choral musician, having sung for nine
years with the Grammy© award-winning
St. Louis Symphony Chorus and its more select Chamber
Chorus. She recently appeared in choral performances in
Los Angeles with Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra
(Michael Eagan, music director).
Get
more information on the activities of the Pomona
College Choir and Glee Club.
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