Melissa Fucci

Melissa Fucci is a professor of music at Kent State University. She has filled many roles in the School of Music, the School of Theatre and Dance, and the Early Childhood Education program. Her areas of teaching at K.S.U. have included music education, choral, world music, early childhood music, musical theatre, music theory and more on multiple campuses.  Recently she has been redesigning and teaching piano classes for music and musical theatre majors. Beyond Kent State, Mel has been music faculty at University School, a music mentor in the Music!Words!Opera! project with Opera Cleveland, and a music and movement specialist at the Cain Park School for the Arts, to name a few positions. She has conducted a wide variety of choral and instrumental ensembles, music directed and played over 100 musical theatre productions and is a collaborative performer and private instructor on piano. Mel earned her Bachelor of Music in Performance from Baldwin-Wallace College (now University) Conservatory of Music and her Master of Music in Conducting from Kent State University. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Music Education at Kent State.