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Emma Gingold
Collaborative Pianist, Vocal Director, Music Director
Engaging singers, actors, and students in a rehearsal setting requires high energy, efficiency, and compassion. I respect my fellow musicians’ time and feelings with fast-paced, friendly collaboration, and I devote myself to the extreme attention to detail required of both an accompanist and a director.
Experience
Accompanist, Lyons Township High School Music Department
2012–2020 (full time 2017–2019)
Duties: Accompany daily warm-ups and rehearsals for six choir classes, accompany weekly soloists in two Vocal Techniques classes, perform in concerts, lead sectional rehearsals, help to manage large class sizes, substitute for choir teachers when required.
Accompanist and Theory Teacher, Spirito! Singers, Downers Grove, IL
2016–present
Duties: Accompany weekly rehearsals for Ragazze choir (middle school girls), prepare and teach intermediate or advanced theory lessons as part of weekly rehearsal.
Accompanist, Chancel Choir, Community Presbyterian Church, Clarendon Hills, IL
2012–2016
Duties: Accompany weekly choir rehearsals, accompany choir during Sunday worship services, provide occasional hymn accompaniment and other service music.
Selected Directing Experience
| 2020 Spring Fundraiser | Writer, Vocal Director | Summer Place Theatre 2020 |
| Singin’ in the Rain * | Vocal Director | Morton West High School 2019 |
| South Pacific * | Vocal and Music Director | SPT 2019 |
| Grease | Music Director | Lyons Township High School 2019 |
| In the Heights * | Vocal Director and Pit Keyboard | MWHS 2018 |
| Footloose * | Vocal and Music Director | SPT 2018 |
| The Drowsy Chaperone * | Vocal and Music Director | LTHS 2018 |
| Seussical * | Vocal Director and Pit Keyboard | MWHS 2017 |
| Anything Goes * | Vocal Director | SPT 2017 |
| The 25th Annual … Spelling Bee | Keyboard Conductor | SPT 2017 |
| The Little Mermaid * | Vocal and Music Director | MWHS 2016 |
| Jesus Christ Superstar * | Vocal and Music Director | SPT 2016 |
| Legally Blonde * | Vocal Director and Pit Keyboard | LTHS 2016 |
| Stuart Little * | Vocal Director and Keyboard Conductor | Open Door Repertory 2015 |
| 13 * | Assistant Vocal Director and Pit Keyboard | LTHS 2015 |
| Camelot * | Vocal and Music Director | SPT 2015 |
| Once on this Island * | Vocal Director | LTHS 2015 |
| You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown * | Vocal Director and Keyboard Conductor | Theatre-Hikes Chicago 2014 |
| 9 to 5 * | Vocal Director | SPT 2014 |
*also served as rehearsal accompanist
Education
Skills and Hobbies
Master of Music in Collaborative Piano (Vocal Coaching), North Park University
Expected May 2022
Lyric diction, opera, conducting
Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, Knox College
June 2012
Minors in Music and French
French
Copywriting and copyediting
Web design, SEO, and social media
Fiddle, tin whistle
Folk music of the British isles
Crocheting, knitting, sewing, and crafts
Let’s make music.
