Ellen Duncan

Associate Professor of Music

Chair, Department of Music

Madame Cadillac Building, Room 250

Marygrove College

8425 West McNichols

Detroit, MI 48221

313-927-1254

eduncan@marygrove.edu

 

A music alumna of Marygrove College, Ellen Duncan received a master’s degree in music from Eastern Michigan University, and has had further study with Robert Shaw at Westminster Choir College in Princeton and in the summer opera program at Brevard Music Center in North Carolina. She studied voice with James Turner, Caroline Rogers and Glenda Kirkland, among others. She began teaching at Marygrove in 1987, was hired full time in 1996, and is currently chair of the music department. Besides directing the Marygrove choirs, Ms. Duncan teaches conducting, music theory and sight-reading. Under her leadership, the Marygrove Chamber Singers have toured in Canada and the eastern United States. In addition, she has conducted sight-reading workshops for Marygrove and the Michigan School Vocal Music Association. She has also directed choirs at historic St. John’s Episcopal Church in downtown Detroit and Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan. Ms. Duncan serves on the Board of Directors of Bound Together, a tutoring and mentoring program for at-risk elementary students in Pontiac . She is a member of the Marygrove College EcoJustice Task Force, the Institute for Detroit Studies, the Hymn Society, and the American Choral Directors Association. She is an avid reader and leads Origen’s Guild, the book discussion group at All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Pontiac.