Cathedral Music Staff

Michael Petrosh

Cathedral Musician

Michael Petrosh began serving as the Assistant Musician in September 2016. He graduated from Sewanee C’13 with a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude and with distinction and honors in both Music and History. As a music major, Michael studied under Dr. Robert Delcamp. The Sewanee music department awarded him the Gilbert Gilchrist Memorial music award, which is given to a graduating senior who has shown excellent musicianship over the course of undergraduate studies. Following two semesters as Assistant

Organist/Choirmaster at St. Mark's Cathedral (Episcopal) in Shreveport, Louisiana, Michael went to receive a Masters in Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) in 2016, where he studied under Todd Wilson. There, he earned the Gilbert M. Brooks Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence for having with the highest grade point average of all masters students at CIM. During his time in Cleveland, Michael worked as the interim musician at St. Hubert’s Episcopal Church, Kirtland Hills, and as the Organist at Lakewood Presbyterian Church immediately prior to coming to Orlando.

In addition to working with the Cathedral Choir, Michael also assists with the direction of both the Orlando Boys and Girls choirs as well as the Cathedral Choristers. Some of his mass setting compositions have been sung by Cathedral Choir. Currently, he also serves as Secretary of the Central Florida American Guild of Organist.

Melissa Ramb

 Soprano and Director of The Cathedral Choristers

Soprano Melissa Ramb is the Director of Choristers at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke. She grew up at the Cathedral and feels blessed to serve in the parish that helped shape her both spiritually and musically. An honors graduate of both Wake Forest University (Bachelor of Arts) and University of Tennessee (Masters of Music), she has performed in opera, oratorio, concert, and musical theater throughout the United States and abroad.

She has directed the Children’s and Training Choirs at St. James Cathedral, teaches voice privately, is a certified Music Together teacher, and an author  with articles published in the internationally distributed magazine, Classical Singer. As a soloist, she has performed with numerous groups including the Orlando Opera Company, Chattanooga Symphony & Opera, dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, the Lake Placid Institute, First Coast Opera, the Orlando Philharmonic, and First Presbyterian Church Orchestra and Choir.

An avid fan of modern music, she has collaborated to premiere and perform works by composers including Canon Benjamin Lane, Robert Schaefer, Dan Locklair, Dave Brubeck, and George Atwell. In 2008 she was granted a Professional Artist  Grant from United Arts of Central Florida to help premiere Atwell’s Millennium Mass at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Ms. Ramb has trained under internationally acclaimed Metropolitan Opera sopranos Pamela Coburn and Stella Zambalis. In addition to singing and choral training, she enjoys time with her husband and two daughters.