Pamela Getnick Mindell

Lecturer/Choral Director
Office: Hogan 511B
Phone: 508.793.2430
Email: pmindell@holycross.edu

Choral Director at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, Pamela Getnick Mindell is a graduate of the Yale University School of Music, where she received her doctorate in Choral Conducting. While at Yale, Ms. Getnick Mindell studied with Marguerite Brooks and David Connell and conducted both the Yale Freshman Chorus and the Yale Glee Club. Under her direction, both choruses performed the Mozart Requiem and the Rachmaninoff Vespers.

Prior to taking up her conducting post at Holy Cross, Ms. Getnick Mindell was a member of the Music faculty at Smith College where she led choirs and taught conducting. She also spent a year as Visiting Choral Fellow at the Ascham School and Sydney Grammar School in Sydney, Australia, conducting several choirs and singing professionally in prominent Sydney ensembles. Since that time, she has been invited back to Sydney as guest conductor and soprano soloist for the 2003 and 2005 Sydney Grammar Bach Festivals. Ms. Getnick Mindell has worked with a number of children's choirs, including the Litchfield County Children's Choir in CT and the Paradise City Children's Choir, which she founded in 2001. As a soprano soloist, Ms. Getnick Mindell has performed in several duet recitals with mezzo-soprano Justina Golden as part of the Smith College Faculty Concert Series. She currently sings with The Boston Secession. Finally, Ms. Getnick Mindell serves as Artistic Director for the Hotchkiss Summer Portals Vocal Chamber Ensembles Program for High School students.

Ms. Getnick Mindell also holds a master's degree in Music Education from The Hartt School as well as a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Princeton University.