Emily Halbert
Emily Rebecca Halbert, a native of Nashville, TN, is the Director of Children’s and Youth Music at All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Atlanta, GA. She is a music educator, conductor, and mezzo-soprano, recently graduating with her Master of Music in Choral Conducting from Georgia State University, where she studied with Drs. Deanna Joseph and Jennifer Sengin. At GSU, she taught Aural Skills I and was the graduate assistant at North Decatur Presbyterian Church where she directed the children's choir and had the opportunity to conduct the Atlanta Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2023, she was selected as a Choral Scholar for the Chorus America Choral-Orchestral Conducting Academy and, along with her two of her lovely graduate school colleagues, their collaborative lecture recital, Defiant Divas, was selected for various local and international conferences, such as the University of Toronto Graduate Music Conference.
Prior to her graduate studies, she was the Director of Music Education and Performing Arts at St. Peter’s Episcopal School in Chattanooga, TN, and was the Associate Conductor for the Chattanooga Girls Choir and directed the ensemble, Cantilena, the developing voices choir for the organization. She graduated from Lee University with a Bachelor's in Music Education, focusing on voice and choral conducting. As a mezzo-soprano, she sings across the southeastern US with professional choirs such as Red Shift (Baton Rouge, LA) and Coro Vocati (Atlanta, GA), as well as a soloist for the Chattanooga Bach Choir and was a staff singer and soloist at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Chattanooga, TN.