Miguel Felipe

Miguel Felipe was born and began his musical studies in Ann Arbor, Michigan. During the 2009–10 academic year, Dr. Felipe is Interim Choral Director and Visiting Lecturer in Music at Mt. Holyoke College. He also serves as Associate Director of Choral Studies at The Boston Conservatory, Music Director of the Boston Choral Ensemble, and Assistant Conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum at Harvard University. He has conducted choirs at the University of Cincinnati, Boston University, The Boston Conservatory, Brown University, and Harvard University. He has led community choirs in Maine, Massachusetts, and Ohio, and has served as a clinician and adjudicator throughout the Northeast US and in Southeast Asia.

Felipe studied at the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy where he earned a diploma in piano. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where he earned a Bachelor of Music, summa cum laude. After relocating to Boston, Felipe attended the Pierre Monteux School and studied conducting at Boston University where he earned his graduate degrees studying with Dr. Ann Howard Jones, David Hoose, Craig Smith, and Joseph Flummerfelt.

As a performer, Felipe advocates for new music and has commissioned and premiered dozens of works for chamber orchestra; wind ensemble; women’s, men’s, and mixed chorus. In 2007 Felipe established—and continues to direct—the Boston Choral Ensemble Commission Competition: the Northeast’s largest choral commissioning project of its kind. As a researcher and teacher, Felipe’s research interests focus on choral innovations in Indonesia, choral societies as influences in cultural development, and conducting pedagogy.

Felipe is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, Chorus America, the National Collegiate Choral Organization, the International Federation for Choral Music, and Pi Kappa Lambda.