Rachel Hassinger, Music Director

Rachel is an artistic director, piano teacher, collaborative pianist, and skilled touch practitioner. She studied piano performance at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she took conducting, jazz piano, and piano pedagogy classes, and performed with the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, Oberlin Orchestra, for a theatrical presentation of Gospel at Colonus, and new music by Oberlin composers at the Midwest Composer’s Symposium. She also studied sociology at Oberlin College. 

She has been making music collaboratively since she was a child; performing and accompanying on piano with choruses, chamber musicians, and orchestras; singing in choirs and musical theater; and playing percussion with orchestras as well as symphonic and marching bands. Her piano, choral conducting, and voice teachers have included Jean Fox, Benjamin Whitten, Peter Takács, Sanford Margolis, Ellen Oak, Millie Beane, and Elizabeth Vrenois, among others. She graduated magna cum laude with a bachelors of science in interdisciplinary studies from Boston University. 

Previously, she served as a digital communications manager and content editor for national and international public health nonprofits, and had the joy of leading the content development of the Leonard Bernstein Centennial website, the first iteration of classical.org, for GBH and CRB. She served in various capacities directing and accompanying the Boston Women’s Rainbow Chorus, and has performed with numerous groups and musicians in the Boston area. 

In addition to her choral directing, she teaches piano and composition to children and adults throughout Greater Boston, and is a Certified Zero Balancing practitioner and licensed massage therapist. Rachel is thrilled to be leading and making music with JP Jubilee.