Irene Messoloras has led the UCI choral program since 2019. During that time, she created unique resources and training opportunities for students during virtual instruction, served as a faculty advisor to campus student groups, and hosted sessions with visiting guest artists and composers, including Grant Gershon, Ola Gjeilo, Shawn Kirchner, and many more. Most recently, Messoloras led the UCI choirs in performances of Duruflé Requiem and Morten Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna.

Messoloras holds a doctor of musical arts degree in choral conducting from the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music under the mentorship of Donald Neuen. Prior to UCI, Messoloras served as a tenured professor and the director of choral activities at the University of La Verne. During that time, she was awarded the Salute to Excellence Outstanding Achievement in Creative Activity Award, secured a major endowment in the choral area for international travel, and increased enrollment in choral ensembles by 70% within her first year. Messoloras’s ensembles participated in professional recordings, music videos, and toured internationally each year performing in festivals and concerts throughout France, Greece, Austria, and Germany.

Additionally, Irene Messoloras serves as the conductor of the Hour of Power Choir in the weekly international Christian television program, “Hour of Power with Bobby Schuller.” Broadcast in over 56 countries, the HOP Choir leads over 4 million viewers in musical worship each week. The ensemble has performed extensively throughout the Netherlands and Germany, and regularly sings new music. Recognized as one of the top choirs in America, the HOP Choir performed at the American Choral Directors Association national conference in 2021, and has accepted the invitation to perform again at the upcoming national conference in Cincinnati in 2023.

Before moving to California, Messoloras was the DCA and awarded tenure at Northwestern Oklahoma State University where she served as chair of the fine arts dept, and was appointed the Dorothy Reichenberger Endowed Chair in Choral Music. Under her baton, Messoloras’s choirs were featured at state conferences, performed at the NAfME 2014 national conference, and performed at Carnegie Hall. Previously, while working as the DCA at Gonzaga University in Washington, Messoloras was integral in the development of an undergraduate conducting concentration, collaborated with the University Relations team to create an initiative to fund choral students to tour China, and lead numerous recruitment tours throughout the pacific northwest.