Emily Boren is a choral conductor and music educator based in Houston, Texas. She holds a Bachelor of Music Education and a Master of Music in Choral Conducting from Stephen F. Austin State University, graduating Cum Laude and Magna Cum Laude respectively, and is a proud member of Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society. During her graduate studies, she served as a choral assistant at SFASU, contributing to the full spectrum of the choral program as both singer and conductor, and performed the role of the Queen of the Night in the university's production of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Following graduation, Emily built a distinguished career in the Tyler area, directing both high school and middle school choral programs. She consistently grew program enrollment, elevated UIL Concert and Sight-Reading ratings, and increased student participation in TMEA All-Region choirs. Most recently at Whitehouse Junior High, she grew program membership by 40% and led her students to claim the majority of the top five chairs in the Middle School All-Region choir two years in a row, the largest regional representation of any school in the area. Emily's love of choral music is rooted in her German heritage. Her grandparents, an enormous musical influence in her life, instilled in her a deep reverence for the German choral tradition through sharing their own music from their childhoods, her Oma’s in Hanover and her Opa’s in a small town in Swabia. She is honored to carry that legacy forward as the ensemble's Damenchordirigentin. Above all, Emily is a devoted wife and mother. She and her husband Robert Boren, an accomplished choir director, clinician, and conductor, are proud parents to three sons and share a deep, lifelong commitment to choral music and the communities it builds.