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Ariose Director Michael McGushin

Michael McGushin is a professor of music at Cabrillo College and the coach/accompanist for the Music Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the conductor of the chamber choir Ariose and of Cabrillo's Westside Choir. From 2002-2004 he served as the director of the Full Spectrum Chorus of Santa Cruz. He has served as music director for a number of theater and opera productions in the Santa Cruz area. Some of these include Shakespeare Santa Cruz's productions of Princess and the Pea, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty; Cabrillo Stage's productions of The Fantasticks and The Music Man; The Threepenny Opera and The Who's Tommy for the Cabrillo College Drama Department; Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro (assistant Music Director) for UCSC Opera Theater; Angels in America (composer and music director), A...My Name is Alice, and Oh Coward! for Santa Cruz Actors' Theater. As a pianist, Michael is a long-time member of the New Music Works Ensemble for which he also serves as an artistic advisor, and has appeared with many performing groups in the Santa Cruz and Monterey County areas. He is a featured performer on recordings of chamber music by Paul Bowles, Lou Harrison and Germaine Tailleferre.


Ariose Singers in rehearsal, fall 2006.