Emma (she/her) is a conductor, composer, and singer with a passion for using choral music to connect people of different backgrounds and celebrate underrepresented voices. She is the Music Director of Philomusica Concert Choir, a 40-voice, auditioned choral ensemble based in East Brunswick, NJ, and a founding member of Triad: Boston’s Choral Collective, an organization made up of singers, composers, and conductors who share artistic responsibility and perform new music. Today, she sings, conducts, and composes with C4: the Choral Composer/Conductor Collective in NYC, the choir after which Triad was modeled. Emma is currently pursuing her DMA in Choral Conducting at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, where she co-directs the University Choir. She has most recently served as Choral Instructor at King School in Stamford, CT, as well as assistant conductor of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Children’s Chorus for its 2020 production of Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades and conductor at Chicago Sinai Congregation.

Emma’s compositions have been performed by choirs at Jacksonville University, the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Times Square, and other college, synagogue, and church choirs from Boston to Los Angeles. As a vocalist, she has performed both solo and ensemble work in the Midwest and on the East Coast, including with St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Wilton, CT, Philadelphia Symphonic Choir, St. James Cathedral Choir of Chicago, Princeton Society of Musical Amateurs, and Hans Zimmer Live US Tour.

Emma holds a Master of Music in Choral Conducting from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ and a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Tufts University in Medford, MA.