Emily Bergmann is a musician, an education scholar-practitioner, and a writer.

Emily Bergmann is a classically trained mezzo-soprano. In February 2024, she made her soloist debut at Carnegie Hall under the baton of Tucker Biddlecombe alongside the Nashville Symphony Chorus and Downtown Voices. Emily has also sung at Carnegie Hall with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, with Andrea Bocelli at Madison Square Garden, with Iraqi artist and humanitarian Kadim Al Sahir, supporting Mark Morris Dance Group at the BAM Opera House, and in immersive works The Mile-Long Opera on the High Line and The Gauntlet at Rockefeller Center.

Emily is on staff at the historic Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew in Brooklyn and has been a longtime member of Downtown Voices at Trinity Church Wall Street. 

Recent engagements include premieres and recordings with the GRAMMY-nominated Benedict Sheehan, the United Nations Chamber Music Society, and composer Reena Esmail.

Emily recently earned her Master of Arts in Higher and Postsecondary Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research focus is on LGBTQ+ undergraduate student outcomes.

Her current  professional role is Department Administrator of Undergraduate Film and Television at NYU Tisch‘s Kanbar Institute, where she serves students, faculty, and staff. Emily’s previous work in higher education was in advancement, with a focus on stewardship and donor relations.

Emily is also a mostly truant poet; her work was selected for inclusion in plain china, a national anthology of the best undergraduate-level poetry, in 2016.