Assistant Music Director Michael Sheetz

Conductor Michael Sheetz is a leading and versatile professional in his field who holds multiple artistic positions in the New York City cultural arena. As Assistant Music Director of Musica Sacra, Michael regularly conducts, prepares, and accompanies in performance at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Here he leads an educational outreach program which has engaged at-need high school music programs in and around NYC for over ten years. 

Michael is the Director of Choral and Voice Studies and Assistant Professor at Hunter College (CUNY) where he conducts the Symphonic-sized College Choir and select Chamber Singers ensembles, teaches private voice lessons and directs the only graduate choral conducting program in the city. He is also the Music Director of The Greenwich Village Chamber Singers, an auditioned, adult avocational chorus that performs a three-concert season of diverse programming each year in the heart of New York City.

As Music Associate at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, Michael performs in acclaimed Concerts at St. Ignatius music series. Here he directs two mass choirs, the Wallace Hall Choir and Orchestra, a Sunday morning liturgical choral ensemble ministering to the parish’s family Mass, and Canticum Sacrum, a Sunday evening chamber choir devoted to worship at the 7:30pm Sunday evening liturgy. He is also a Resident Faculty member and conductor for Classic Lyric Arts, an international summer training program for emerging vocal artists in Novafeltria, Italy.

Michael has performed at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Merkin Hall, and his pianism has been featured in numerous live broadcasts on WQXR and Vermont Public Radio. He has taught on the faculties of Vassar College and The Juilliard School, and has played for and assisted many internationally renowned conductors. Michael holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Manhattan School of Music and is a graduate of Vassar College. www.michaelsheetzmusic.com