musician

Emily Bergmann is a classically trained mezzo-soprano.

Recent highlights include a GRAMMY nomination for Best Choral Performance for her contributions to the world premiere recording of Benedict Sheehan‘s Akathist.

In February 2024, Emily 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 is a longtime member of Downtown Voices at Trinity Church. 

As an arts administrator, Emily serves as Downtown Voices’ social media manager, and is the managing director of Ensemble TBD, an ad-hoc chamber choir based in Brooklyn.

education scholar-practitioner

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, focusing on stewardship and donor relations.

writer

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.