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Lindsay Pope is a freelance conductor and classical singer, which she loves doing in tandem with owning a yoga studio in downtown Northampton, Massachusetts.

In her previous academic life, Dr. Pope was the Visiting Director of Choral Activities at Williams College, where she directed two choirs and maintained a voice and conducting studio. She completed her doctorate in choral conducting at the University of North Texas, where she had the opportunity to conduct Concert Choir and University Singers. She was also Assistant Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Chorus, for which her work as chorus master was praised as “exemplary and well-prepared” (Texas Classical Review).

From 2011 to 2016, Dr. Pope was Director of Choral Ensembles and Lecturer in Music at Mount Holyoke College, where she conducted three choral ensembles and taught undergraduate conducting. Under her direction, the ensembles participated in tours to Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and New Orleans, released a commercial CD, and performed at the American Choral Directors Association’s 2016 Eastern Division Conference.

Dr. Pope has served as Reading and Standards Chair for Women’s Choirs for Massachusetts ACDA (American Choral Directors Association). She has appeared as a choral clinician for area children’s choruses and district choirs in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Dr. Pope is passionate about exposing her students to choral music from a variety of genres, eras, and particularly cultures. She has traveled to Corsica and the Republic of Georgia with Village Harmony to study and perform traditional folk song and chant.

Dr. Pope is a mezzo-soprano specializing in early music. At the University of North Texas, she loved performing in Collegium—UNT’s early music ensemble—and was a soloist in Bach’s St. John Passion and in chamber music at the Boston Early Music Festival. Other notable solo performances include the Duruflé Requiem on the Dallas Symphony Chorus’s Scando-Baltic Tour and Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, conducted by Joseph Flummerfelt, at the Spoleto USA Festival. She currently sings with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Grammy-affiliated True Concord Voices, and Handel + Haydn Society Chorus.

Dr. Pope’s research interests include early music performance practice, the ethics of choral programming, and the intersection of women and gender studies with choral music. Her articles on women’s choirs, female composers, and performing sacred music in secular contexts have been featured in Massachusetts ACDA newsletters and on the Northwest ACDA website. Her dissertation entitled “Beyond the Binary: The Intersection of Gender and Cross-Cultural Identity in Reena Esmail’s Life and Choral Works” was recently honored with North Texas’s Toulouse Dissertation Award in the Fine Arts field.

Dr. Pope holds degrees from the University of North Texas (Doctor of Musical Arts, Choral Conducting), Westminster Choir College (Master of Music, Choral Conducting), and Mount Holyoke College (Bachelor of Arts, Music). While a student at Mount Holyoke, she directed the V-8’s—the nation’s oldest continuing female a cappella group—and sang in choir.

Lindsay lives in Williamsburg, Massachusetts with her husband Jonathan, their two dogs (Emily and Henry), their cat (Dandy), and their wee baby son. In her free time, she loves hiking, swimming, creative writing, eating good food, and practicing yoga.