About Our Conductor

Kimberly Dunn Adams joined the Mount Holyoke College Faculty in 2006 and serves as Choral Director and Visiting Lecturer in Music at Mount Holyoke. She conducts the Glee Club, the Chorale, and the Chamber Singers. She also teaches conducting and sings with the Faculty Baroque Ensemble.

Ms. Adams received her Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from the Yale School of Music, where she studied with Marguerite Brooks and Simon Carrington. She also holds both a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from Oberlin College and a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Oberlin Conservatory. She is currently pursuing her D.M.A. in Choral Conducting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under Beverly Taylor.

In 2005, Ms. Adams took Second Prize at the American Choral Directors Association National Conducting Competition, Graduate Division. In 2004, Ms. Adams was a fellow in orchestral conducting at the Conductor's Institute at the University of South Carolina. She has also received various academic awards, including the Lorna Wendt Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin, as well as several prizes from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Oberlin College.

Ms. Adams has previously served as conductor of the UW-Madison Masters Singers, Yale Marquand Chapel Choir, Yale Repertory Chorus, Yale Recital Chorus, and Oberlin Women's Choir. In addition, she has acted as Assistant Conductor for the Yale Camerata in New Haven, the Choral Union in Madison, and most recently, the University of Wisconsin Opera Department production of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro. In her free time, she performs as both Soprano and Mezzo-soprano soloist with various ensembles.