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 About Our Conductors
 Lindsay Pope is the Interim Director of Choral Activities and Visiting Lecturer in Music at Mount Holyoke College, where she conducts the Glee Club, Chorale, and Chamber Singers. Ms. Pope completed her graduate studies at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ, where she studied conducting under Joe Miller, Amanda Quist, Andrew Megill, and James Jordan. While at Westminster, Ms. Pope served as the Graduate Assistant Conductor of Kantorei (2009-2010), Westminster's early music ensemble, and Chapel Choir (2010-2011) , the first year curriculum chorus. She has also served as the Assistant Conductor of the New Jersey Chamber Singers, Conductor of the Providence Place Bel Canto Chorus, and the Choral Assistant for the Mount Holyoke choral ensembles 2008-2009 under Kimberly Dunn Adams. Ms. Pope is deeply passionate about communicating music of other cultures to her choruses. This past summer, she traveled to the Republic of Georgia with Patty Cuyler and Village Harmony to study and perform traditional folk songs and chant. At Westminster Choir College, she co-facilitated a two-day residency of Mollie Stone and Patty Cuyler to explore teaching world music and authentic performance practice as it relates to music of South Africa, Georgia, and Corsica. Ms. Pope is an avid choral singer. While at Westminster, she sang in Symphonic Choir, Master Singers, Kantorei, and Westminster Choir. With the Symphonic Choir, she participated in numerous performances at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, including a concert performance of El Niño with the Orchestra of St. Luke's conducted by John Adams, Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3 with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Alan Gilbert, Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Michael Tilson Thomas, and Johannes Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Dresden Staatskapelle and Daniel Harding. With Westminster Choir, Ms. Pope participated in tours to California and Florida, as well as two terms as the choir-in-residence at the Spoleto Arts Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. At the Spoleto Festival she performed in the opera choruses of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and the American premiere of Heinrich Rihm's Proserpina. As a mezzo-soprano soloist, Ms. Pope has performed numerous concert solos under Joe Miller and Andrew Megill. At the Spoleto Festival 2011, she was the alto soloist in Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with the Spoleto Festival Orchestra conducted by Joseph Flummerfelt. She also loves to participate in outreach concerts at retirement communities and historical societies with her musically inclined family. She is a voice student of Lindsey Christiansen and Elizabeth Vrenios. Ms. Pope is an alumna of Mount Holyoke College ('07). During her undergraduate studies, she participated in the choral ensembles and was director of the V-8s, the oldest continuing female collegiate a cappella group in the nation.
 Amanda Bistolfo is the Assistant to the Director of Choral Ensembles at Mount Holyoke College, where she sings in and assists the Glee Club, Chorale, and Chamber Singers in every way possible. Ms. Bistolfo is an alumna of Mount Holyoke College ('11), where she majored in Psychology and minored in Theatre Arts. She was in the Glee Club all four years and in the Chamber Singers for two semesters. She was an alto soloist three times with the Glee Club, and sang Abendsegen from Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel with the Mount Holyoke College Orchestra. She also sang in the student recitals every semester, and performed two shared recitals her senior year. A mezzo-soprano, she continues her voice studies with Cheryl Cobb. | |