Teacher

Marc Weagraff is Professor of Voice and Choral Studies at the Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Performing Arts where he teaches voice to Musical Theatre, Voice Performance, and Music Education majors and conducts BW Singers, the university’s largest curricular choir. He holds the D.M.A. degree in voice performance from The University of Michigan; with M.M. and B.M. degrees in voice performance from The Cleveland Institute of Music. Dr. Weagraff has a firmly established reputation as a teacher of excellence. His students have performed with national and international opera programs (Sarasota, Hawaii Performing Arts, AIMS, FAVA, AVA Russian Intensive, others), in leading roles on Broadway (Mean Girls, Les Mis, Ghost, Bring it on!, Rock of Ages, Freestyle Love Supreme, The Lion King, MJ: the Michael Jackson Musical, others), in numerous national and international tours (Hamilton, Beetlejuice, American Idiot, Book of Mormon, West Side Story, Phantom of the Opera, others), on network television (Jeremy Beloate, season 26 finalist on The Voice), and have been accepted to top-tier graduate programs in voice (Curtis, CCM, NEC, Eastman, Indiana Univ., Yale, others).

As a choral conductor, Dr. Weagraff has enjoyed over 35 years of experience on the podium in liturgical, community, and collegiate settings. As Director of Music Ministries at St. Noel Church in Willoughby Hills, OH (2000-2008) his choirs performed in Rome and Assisi, Italy including the world-wide telecast of the 2007 New Year’s Day Papal Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica and in concert at San Ignazio Church. They also performed throughout the greater Cleveland area including at The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist and the regional NPM convention. He is currently the Artistic Director of Master Singers Chorale, Inc. of Stow, OH.