About the Director

Hello! I am so glad that you're interested in the music program at Grovetown Middle School! I am originally from Columbia County and graduated from Evans High School in 2013. Middle school is where I first discovered my love for choir, and I knew then that I wanted to be a middle school choir director to a student just like YOU! 

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Mrs. Alvarez has performed as a soloist for choral and orchestral works throughout the southeastern United States and in Europe. Born in 1995 in Augusta, Georgia, she began classical singing and piano instruction at the age of ten, quickly developing a love for both solo artistry and choral works. 

Highlights of her career include being selected as a vocal apprentice in Budapest, Hungary, and Fullerton, California, with Berkshire Choral International; serving as the music director at St. Peter Claver Catholic Church for six years in Macon, Georgia; performing with the Mercer Singers for their debut at Carnegie Hall in 2017; later touring with Mercer Singers across England in 2019; performing Ken Medema’s The Weaver in 2017; as well as being invited to perform for the New York FBI and Department of Corrections in 2018. Mrs. Alvarez has also performed as a soloist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Mercer University Opera, and Choral Society of Middle Georgia. Her most recent performance was her debut at Carnegie Hall in New York in July of 2022.

Victoria Alvarez holds an undergraduate degree in Music Education from Mercer University in the voice and piano studios of Dr. Richard Kosowski and Dr. Ian Altman, respectively. She also holds a Master of Music in Choral Conducting from Mercer University, under the guidance of Dr. Stanley Roberts. In 2021 she earned a Specialist in Music Education (Ed.S.) from Augusta University. 

A passionate advocate for music education, she sings in Limited Time Only, a professional choir based in Columbia, South Carolina. While her primary focus is choral conducting and operatic performance, she enjoys performing a variety of musical genres including art song and sacred repertoire. She is a competitive clogger of eighteen years.