Lindsay Pope is the Director of Choral Studies at UMass Amherst, where she conducts the Chamber Choir and teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting. She previously directed the choral programs at Williams College and Mount Holyoke College, and served as assistant conductor for the Dallas Symphony Chorus. Her Mount Holyoke ensembles performed at the American Choral Directors Association’s 2016 Eastern Division Conference. Lindsay completed her doctorate in choral conducting at the University of North Texas. Her dissertation on living composer Reena Esmail received the Herford Prize for outstanding doctoral terminal research in choral music. Lindsay has sung professionally with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, True Concord Voices, and the Handel + Haydn Society Chorus. She has also traveled to the Republic of Georgia, Corsica, and Mexico to study traditional folk music and chant. She has a master’s in choral conducting from Westminster Choir College and a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Mount Holyoke College. She lives in Williamsburg, Massachusetts with her partner, Jonatha, and children, Heron and Micah.