Valerie MacPhail
Lecturer in Voice
valerie.macphail@converse.edu
864-596-9168
Blackman Music Hall, Room 208

Soprano Valerie MacPhail received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Vocal Performance from the University of South Carolina, studying and coaching with Walter Cuttino and John Keene. She holds a Master of Music in Voice Performance from Florida State University, and the BA from The College of William and Mary in Virginia. 

She has sung with regional orchestras, including the Brevard Music Center Orchestra and the Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra. As a chamber musician she has performed on the Brevard Music Center Chamber Music Series and with the Tallahassee Bach Parley, as well as on numerous faculty recitals. She has been featured in oratorio and recital performances in South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Illinois, and Pennsylvania.

She has appeared with the South Carolina Opera Theater, The Spartanburg Repertory Company, and the Converse Opera Theater, where recent roles include the Countess in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, Sister Constance in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites, Lucy in Menotti’s The Telephone, and Donna Ximena in Gazzaniga’s Don Giovanni. She created the role of Beatrix Trenholm in the world premiere of To Him Who Waits, by Dr. S. David Berry, Petrie School of Music faculty member and composer. 

Dr. MacPhail has had students accepted at prestigious music schools, including the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, the New England Conservatory, and the Manhattan School of Music. She enjoys helping all of her students find pleasure in singing, and in discovering how much their voices can do, technically and expressively.