• Emma Daniels

    Music Director & Conductor

    Originally from Chicago, IL, Emma (she/her) is a conductor, composer, and singer with a passion for connecting musicians of different backgrounds and experiences through choral music. Emma is a founding member of Triad: Boston’s Choral Collective, an organization made up of singers, composers, and conductors who share artistic responsibility and perform new music. Today, she sings, conducts, and composes with C4: the Choral Composer/Conductor Collective in NYC, the choir after which Triad was modeled. She has most recently served as Choral Instructor at King School in Stamford, CT, as well as Pre-K-8 Music Instructor at Horizons, Norwalk Community College, assistant conductor of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Children’s Chorus for its 2020 production of Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades, and conductor at Chicago Sinai Congregation.

    Emma’s compositions have been performed by Triad: Boston’s Choral Collective, Westminster Chapel Choir, Tufts Chamber Singers, and other college, synagogue, and church choirs from Boston to Los Angeles. She has been commissioned by California School of the Arts and Chicago Sinai Congregation. As a vocalist, she has performed both solo and ensemble work in the Midwest and on the East Coast, including with St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Wilton, CT, St. James Cathedral Choir of Chicago, Philadelphia Symphonic Choir, and Princeton Society of Musical Amateurs. Emma grew up singing with the Chicago Children’s Choir, an organization born out of the Civil Rights Movement, dedicated to creating a better world through connecting singers of different backgrounds and experiences to create music. This worldview has shaped her as a musician today.

    Emma holds a Master of Music in Choral Conducting from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ and a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Tufts University in Medford, MA.

  • Ansel Mapp

    Pianist, Accompanist

    Ansel Mapp is currently a MM Piano Performance degree candidate and student of Dr. Min Kwon at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. He received a BA in Applied Music and Philosophy from Baylor University in 2022 and was a student of Dr. Terry Lynn Hudson.  

    On December 4, 2021, Ansel performed his first solo recital, featuring all Black composers with works written by Valerie Capers, Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Robert Nathaniel Dett, and arr. Dr. John L. Cornelius II, Associate Professor and Collaborative Pianist at Prairie View A&M University.  

    On May 4, 2022, Ansel organized and performed in “A Requiem to bell hooks” with advisory from Dr. Lenore Wright. This program celebrating the life and works of feminist, social critic, and author bell hooks, sharing the inequities in concert programming, and performing works by Margaret Bonds and Florence Price.  

    Ansel Mapp was a participant in the Inaugural Nina Simone Piano Competition in June 2023. 

    By doing the work to promote Black composers in spaces that lacks Black representation, he hopes to change attitudes surrounding minority composers and show that there is truly deserving and amazing music that needs to be showcased.  

    Ansel has been teaching piano since 2017 and has experience working with students of all ages. As a teacher, Ansel is committed to a personalized approach, encouraging each student to reach their musical potential.

  • Board of Directors

    Richard Fried, President
    Lorraine Yoch-Lear, Vice President
    Heather Woll, Treasurer
    Maria Gavilanes, Secretary
    Steven Heckel, Member-at-Large
    Jerry LaBrie, Member-at-Large
    Joyce Richardson, Member-at-Large