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Emilie Sweet > Biographical Sketch

Emilie Sweet is Assistant Professor of Music at Lake Forest College where she conducts the Lake Forest College Choir and teaches courses in music history and music fundamentals. A native of Fort Wayne, Indiana, she holds degrees from Indiana University (B.S. in Music and Italian, 2001), the University of Arizona (M.M. in Choral Conducting, 2003), and the University of Minnesota (D.M.A. in Conducting, 2008). She has studied conducting with Kathy Saltzman Romey, Matthew Mehaffey, Craig Kirchhoff, Jeffrey Stirling, Bruce Chamberlain, and Michael Schwartzkopf.

As an author, Professor Sweet has contributed to volumes two and three of the GIA Press publication Teaching Music Through Performance in Choir, and has presented scholarship at the National Service-Learning Conference of the National Youth Leadership Council (2008), the North Central Division Convention of the American Choral Conductor's Association (2008), the national convention of the College Music Society (2007), and the national meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (2007).  Her teaching interests include community engagement through choral programming, interdisciplinary studies, service learning, and cultural criticism.

Ms. Sweet is the founding director of The Alchemy Project, a Minnesota non-profit organization that promotes community engagement through high-quality, interdisciplinary arts events. Also active as a professional choral singer, Emilie has performed with many of the finest choral ensembles around the country, including the 2006 Grammy-nominated Tiffany Consort and Holy Trinity Bach Choir (New York City), the Santa Fe Desert Chorale (Santa Fe), VocalEssence (Minneapolis), Conspirare (Austin), and Cantique Early Music Ensemble (Tucson).