Stacie Rossow

Dr. Stacie Rossow, D.M.A.
Professor & Associate Director, Choral and Vocal Studies
Associate Chair, Department of Music                                                                                                            Florida Atlantic University

Areas of Expertise:
Conducting
Voice
Ear-training

Email: srossow@fau.edu
Office Phone: 561.297.4230
Office: AL 246

Stacie Lee Rossow, D.M.A . A native of Sarasota, Florida, Dr. Stacie Lee Rossow has been a member of the faculty at Florida Atlantic University since 2000, has served as Associate Director of Choral and Vocal Studies since 2002, and was named Associate Chair of the Department in Fall 2020. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance and a Master of Arts in Choral Conducting and Performance from Florida Atlantic University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting, with cognates in musicology and vocal pedagogy, from the University of Miami. Her doctoral thesis, The Choral Music of Irish Composer Michael McGlynn, was the first scholarly study of the composer's work and is held today in the Irish Traditional Music Archive in Dublin. In 2009, she was awarded the Theodore Presser Foundation grant for research in Irish choral music, and in 2015, she received the Florida Atlantic University Faculty Talon Award for Excellence in Leadership.

For 2026-2027, Dr. Rossow has been named a Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Ireland, an honor extended through formal invitations from the Irish Institute of Music and Song and Maynooth University. Under the award, she will teach and conduct research on the preservation of the Irish language through sean-nós, and will lead certification courses in choral conducting for the Irish Institute of Music and Song, a role that places her scholarship directly in service of training the next generation of Irish choral conductors.

Dr. Rossow's conducting career has long been intertwined with Ireland's choral tradition. A faculty member of the inaugural Anúna Summer School in Dublin in 2011, she returned in 2013 as featured clinician and facilitator, and in 2015 was named co-director of the program. She has served as studio conductor on four Anúna recordings, including Illumination (2012), Revelation(2015), Sunshine | Shadows (2016), and Transcendence (2018). Of her debut recording with the ensemble, AllMusic's Stephen Eddins wrote that she "conveys a thorough understanding of the various musical styles and draws sensitive performances from the singers." She has premiered numerous works by Michael McGlynn, including My Songs Shall Rise, settings for women's chorus, and the orchestral version of Behind the Closed Eye Suite, Incantations, and Flowers, Sunshine, and Shadows. She is also the founding director of Sirenia, a six-member female choral ensemble whose debut recording was released by Hoot|Wisdom Recordings in 2017.

At Florida Atlantic University, Dr. Rossow serves as artistic director of Vocalis, the university's premier treble choral ensemble. Under her direction, Vocalis released The Wind in the Reeds: The Music of Michael McGlynn with Hoot|Wisdom Recordings in 2023, earning a Silver Medal at the 2025 Global Music Awards, and performed its Irish and European premiere at The Lark Concert Hall in Balbriggan in June 2025 as part of a wider Irish concert tour spanning Galway, Cork, and Dublin. Most notably, Vocalis was selected through a national blind audition to perform at the 2026 Southern Region American Choral Directors Association Conference in Memphis, Tennessee, an honor awarded to only a small number of collegiate ensembles across the region and one that places the program among the most distinguished treble choirs in the southern United States.

As a voice instructor, Dr. Rossow has built a studio whose graduates compete successfully at the national level. Her undergraduate students have won national auditions for the United States Army Field Band's Soldiers' Chorus directly out of their bachelor's programs, and several are now featured soloists performing in Europe. She is a frequent adjudicator for solo and ensemble vocal competitions, judging at the state and regional level for the Florida Vocal Association and serving as a judge and clinician for district and state choral and solo-ensemble assessments throughout Florida.

An active scholar as well as conductor, Dr. Rossow has presented research throughout the United States and abroad on topics including the choral music of Ireland, the music of Michael McGlynn, Irish nationalist choral composers, and the use of Braille music notation in choral pedagogy. Her article "Defining the Irish Choral Nationalists: The Composers and Their Music" was published in 2024. In 2026, she presented her research on McGlynn's role in Ireland's nationalist choral tradition at the 17th Annual International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts in Athens, Greece, and in 2027, she will deliver the paper "Anam agus Fuaim: The Soul and Sound of Irish Choral Music" at the Hawaii University International Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education in Honolulu.

Dr. Rossow holds memberships in the American Choral Directors Association, the College Music Society, Chorus America, the National Collegiate Choral Conductors Organization, and the Florida Music Education Association. She has served as Collegiate Repertoire and Standards Chair for the Southern Division of ACDA, President of the Florida Collegiate Music Educators Association, and Musicology Representative for the Southern Region of the College Music Society.