Nichelle Mungo

Background Vocal Coordinator

Nichelle Mungo is a multiyear Grammy Music Educator nominee, three-time winner
of Showtime at the Apollo, multiyear recipient of the Best Artist Award (Gospel and
R&B) by New England Urban Music Awards, and recipient of the Berklee Urban
Service Award. In addition to her own internationally acclaimed artistry, Mungo is
a recording artist, educator, songwriter, and choral director. She has worked with
artists such as Doobie Powell, Harry Connick Jr., Natalie Cole, Patti Labelle, and many others, as well
as collaborated with organizations such as the Newport Folk Festival, Annapolis Choral Festival, and
the Glory Gospel Singers, to name a few. She was a guest director for Stax Recording Music Academy,
a guest clinician for Chatting with the Masters with Grammy-winning Dorinda Clark-Cole, and was
featured on comedy tours with Talent, Cedric the Entertainer, and Bro-Man..

 

Mungo has also performed the U.S. national anthem at the opening of Reebok World Headquarters,
and at sporting events for the New England Patriots, Boston Red Sox, New England Revolution, and
Boston Celtics. Her arrangement of the anthem is heard worldwide. Her freelance services include
session work, voice-overs, acting, education, arranging, composing, fashion modeling, acting, and
poetry. Mungo has also starred in hit plays such as Cinderella, Sista Girl, Another Moment in Black
History, and Hallelujah in A Flat.

Maureen McMullan

Producer/Artistic Director

Maureen McMullan is a Scottish soprano, songwriter, arranger, producer, and vocal
pedagogue, trained in both classical and contemporary music. Widely recognized for
her stylistic versatility, she has appeared as lead vocalist at Symphony Hall with Keith
Lockhart and the Boston Pops, Holiday Pops, and Swing Pops, including the world
premiere season performances of Visions of America with compositions by Roger
Kellaway and Alan and Marilyn Bergman; and for the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra with acclaimed
jazz tenor saxophonist Tommy Smith. Her other career highlights include performances at Celtic
Connections; the Montreux Jazz Festival; the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; PBS music special, Highland
Heartbeat; and for Howard Shore's iconic work, The Lord of the Rings Symphony in Six Movements.
Aformer session singer for the BBC, McMullan is an accomplished bandleader and recently directed
and performed the featured musical tribute honoring Emmy-winning documentarian Ken Burns at the
Great Scot Awards in New York City, and as part of a global music diaspora concert for the Smithsonian
Institution’s Scots In the American West symposium.

 

McMullan previously served as the assistant chair of the Voice Department at Berklee, and as an
associate professor of voice. She earned a bachelor's degree in applied music from the University
of Strathclyde, a professional diploma from Berklee College of Music, and an M.B.A. from the
D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. McMullan is the artist-in-residence
for the National Trust for Scotland Foundation USA, and a recipient of the Sir Sean Connery Scottish
International Education Trust (SIET) Arts Award.