#National Association for Music Education
#American Choral Directors Association
#Music Teachers National Association
#Student National Association of Teachers of Singing
Emma Griffiths is a second-year undergraduate student residing in Bloomington, Indiana. She is presently pursuing a Bachelor of Music Education (Choral Emphasis) and a Bachelor of Music in Voice. She currently studies voice under the tutelage of Deanne Meek at the Indiana University-Bloomington Jacobs School of Music. She previously studied voice for 1.5 years under the instruction of Dr. Robin J. Smith at Indiana University-Southeast. She also studied piano for 5 years with Mrs. Lea Linsley in Georgetown, Indiana, and studied under the tutelage of Kaden Larson for 1 year. At this time, she is a current member of the Grammy-nominated Indiana University Singing Hoosiers.
Throughout her years of intermediate and secondary school, Emma was heavily involved in choir and school-wide extracurriculars and clubs. She served as the president of Student Council, an officer of the National Honor Society, and a member of the Renaissance Club Leadership Team during her senior year. She was also an avid participant her high school's Academic Team, as well as a member of the organizations listed above, for four years or more. Emma participated in the choral program at her school for six years and became a teacher's aide for the middle school choir during her junior and senior years of high school. During her time in the program, she frequently accompanied the chorus(es) during rehearsals and in performance, lead sectional rehearsals, coordinated yearly events, and directed both the middle and high school choirs during various concerts. She received a Group III gold rating in 2021 from the Indiana State School Music Association (ISSMA) as an assistant director of the North Harrison Middle School Choir. Emma has also been a consistent participant in the annual ISSMA Solo & Ensemble event for seven years, and she has received multiple Group I gold ratings on the district and state levels for vocal solos and small ensembles.
Outside of her local school choir(s), Emma was a participant in the Indiana All-State Honor Choir for four years. She worked with guest conductors Tesfa Wondemagegnehu, Dr. Sandra Snow, Dr. Jeffery Redding, and Dr. Jessica Nápoles. She was selected as the soprano soloist in Giovanni Battista Martini's "Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina" during the 2022 Indiana All-State Honor Choir and performed in the Embassy Theatre located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She was also invited to participated in the University of Louisville's annual Honor Choir in January 2022 under the direction of Dr. Kent E. Hatteberg. In the height of the 2020 worldwide pandemic, Emma took part in Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 6: Sing Gently and attended multiple live-streamed YouTube rehearsals hosted by Whitacre.
Her recent performance engagements involved travel to Sydney, Australia, to perform in a young adult honor choir under the direction of Dr. Christopher Aspaas, Director of Choral Activities at Texas Christian University. In late February 2023 through early March 2023, she participated in the Singing Hoosiers' week-long Northeast Tour from Indiana to New York, performing a wide breadth of repertoire from the Great American Songbook under the direction of Dr. Christopher Albanese. Emma has also engaged in performance through the Miss America Opportunity as the 2023 titleholder of Miss Southern Indiana.
Following her graduation from Indiana University, Emma plans to teach choir in a middle or high school for a minimum of two years before pursuing her master's and doctoral degrees in Choral Conducting.