Emily Reeves Bohl
Director of Concert Choir, Instructor in the Master of Arts in Teaching in the Performing Arts
Education
The Kodály Center at Holy Names University
M.M.
The University of Oklahoma
M.Ed.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Southern University
B.A.
Performance/Recording Highlights
Emily Reeves Bohl has been the Director of Choral Activities at Berkeley Center for the Arts at Goose Creek High School since 2020. Students under her direction have been selected for regional, state, and national honor choirs. Choirs under her direction have consistently received superior ratings in adjudicated settings and have recently performed at the annual conferences of both the South Carolina American Choral Directors Association (2023) and the South Carolina Music Educators Association (2024). In October 2024, Emily was awarded the Emerging Scholar Award by SC ACDA for outstanding contributions to choral music in South Carolina in under ten years of service. She was additionally selected as the recipient of the SCMEA Outstanding Young Music Educator Award in February 2025.
In addition to her duties as Director of Choral Activities, Emily has previously served as Music Director for theatrical productions at BCA; and has enjoyed conducting performances of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, The Wizard of Oz, Little Women, and Mary Poppins. She serves as the Fine Arts Department Chair, Tri-M Music Honor Society Chapter Advisor, Black Student Union Co-Sponsor, and on the School Leadership Team. Emily was a Finalist for Goose Creek High School Teacher of the Year in 2023, 2024, and 2025.
Emily was appointed Artistic Director & Conductor of the Singers of Summerville in January 2025. Outside the classroom and away from the podium, Emily maintains an active performing schedule. She can be heard regularly as staff soprano at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, and with the choirs of The King's Counterpoint. As a chorister, she has sung with academic and professional ensembles across the United States and abroad in England, Spain, France, and Hungary. Previous engagements include the soprano solos in Requiem (Fauré), Gloria (Vivaldi), Messiah (Handel), Gloria (Rutter), Magnificat (Bach), and the Oklahoma premiere of Mass no. 1 (Tyberg) with Windsong Chamber Choir.
Professional affiliations include the National Association for Music Education where she serves on the Choral Division All-State and Choral Performance Assessment Committees, the International Kodály Society, and the South Carolina chapter of the American Choral Directors Association, where she serves on the Repertoire & Resources and Conference Performing Choirs Committees. Emily has served as a clinician and guest conductor in varied settings, and is also active as a presenter, especially in the area of the Kodály concept and its applications to Choral Pedagogy. She received the Logan Fellowship in Education for study at The Kodály Center at Holy Names University from 2019-2020, and was awarded the Bacon-Erdei Scholarship for study at the Kodály Institute in Kecskemét, Hungary in 2022. Most recently, she received a grant for study at the International Kodály Institute and Symposium in 2025.
Courses Taught
MUSC 161 - Concert Choir
MUSE 611 - Middle Grades & Secondary Methods
MUSE 685 - Independent Study in Vocal Pedagogy
MUSE 702 - Conducting, Collaboration and the Musical Classroom