MOLLIE STONE
Director of Madrigals Ensemble/Hyde Park Neighborhood Conductor     

Mollie Stone is currently pursuing her Doctorate in choral conducting at Northwestern University, where she served as director of the Northwestern University Women’s Chorus from 2008-2010. Ms. Stone holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College, a Master of Music degree in conducting from Westminster Choir College and has studied at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

In 2001, she served as the Graduate Associate for the Amherst College music department. During this time, Ms. Stone received a grant from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation to produce a DVD that helps American choral directors learn and teach black South African choral music in the oral tradition. Most recently, she presented her DVD, “Vela Vela,” through the Ravinia Festival’s Reach*Teach*Play Education Program as well as at ACDA, MMEA and Kodály conferences in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Oregon and Oklahoma. In 2011, she produced a second teaching DVD on South African choral music.

In 2006, Ms. Stone received another generous grant from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation to return to South Africa to study how South Africans are using choral music in the struggle against HIV. Ms. Stone currently lectures and gives workshops on black South African choral music across the United States and Europe.

Ms. Stone has studied and taught with the organization Village Harmony in the Republic of Georgia, Corsica and the United States. In 2011, she spent ten weeks touring across Europe, performing and giving workshops with the ensemble Northern Harmony in Corsica, France, Switzerland, Germany, England and Wales.

Ms. Stone grew up singing in Chicago Children’s Choir, and proudly directs the Chicago Children’s Choir Madrigals Ensemble and Hyde Park Neighborhood Choir.



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