Music - Faculty Biographies - Bruce McInnes

Bruce McInnes, conductor of the UMF Community Chorus also directs the Mastersingers USA, a men’s chorus of alumni from Amherst College, Yale University, Pacific University and University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, as well as from his choirs at Grace Church in New York. McInnes has also conducted choirs at Harvard University, Sarah Lawrence College, Rutgers University and Columbia University. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Université de Paris where he studied with Nadia Boulanger, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Cochereau and Darius Milhaud. He holds an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and completed his graduate studies at Yale University. He has been a professor at Amherst College, Pacific University, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire and Sarah Lawrence College, and more recently served as dean of the conservatory at the Cleveland Institute of Music. In addition to conducting the UMF Community Chorus, McInnes also serves as choir director at the Old South Church in Farmington.