Emily Reeves Bohl has been the Director of Choral Activities at Berkeley Center for the Arts (BCA) 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 SC ACDA (2023) and SCMEA (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, and she was recently selected as the recipient of the 2025 SCMEA Outstanding Young Music Educator Award. 

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In addition to her duties as Director of Choral Activities, Emily serves as Music Director for theatrical productions at BCA; most recently directing You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, The Wizard of Oz, Little Women, and Mary Poppins. She additionally enjoys serving as the Fine Arts Department Head, Tri-M Music Honor Society Chapter Advisor, and on the GCH Leadership Team and Fine Arts Steering Committee. Emily was a Finalist for Goose Creek High School Teacher of the Year in 2023, 2024, and 2025.

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Emily has recently been appointed Artistic Director as the Singers of Summerville, and will make her debut in March 2025. She has previously served as Adjunct Professor at The College of Charleston, where she taught courses in the Master of Arts in Teaching program. Outside the classroom and away from the podium, Emily maintains an active performing schedule throughout South Carolina. She can be heard regularly as staff soprano at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, and with professional choirs including The King's Counterpoint, Vox Regis, and Cantores Charleston. 

 

Emily serves on the SCMEA Choral Division All-State and Choral Performance Assessment Committees, and as the SCACDA Chairperson for Treble Repertoire and Resources and Conference Performing Choirs. She has served as a clinician in varied settings, most recently directing the SCMEA Midlands SSA Clinic and Dorchester School District 2 Middle School Honor Choir. Active as a presenter, especially in the area of the Kodály concept and its applications to Choral Pedagogy, she has most recently presented at the annual conferences of the SC American Choral Directors Association and SC Music Educators Association. Emily received the Bacon-Erdei Scholarship for study at the Kodály Institute in Kecskemét, Hungary in 2022, and was selected as a Conducting Fellow for the Atlanta Summer Conducting Institute in 2024. Emily has previously served as Adjunct Professor at The College of Charleston, where she taught courses in the Master of Arts in Teaching program.

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Emily holds the the Bachelor of Arts in Choral Music Education from Charleston Southern University, the Master of Education in Administration from The University of Oklahoma, and the Master of Music in Kodály Pedagogy from Holy Names University, where she was recipient of the Logan Fellowship in Education. She has studied conducting with Dr. Valerie Bullock, Dr. Marshall Forrester, Dr. László Nemes, János Horváth, and Dr. Anna Fűri. Professors of educational methods and musicianship include Maree Hennessy, Gemma Arguelles, Ildikó Thész Salgado, Dr. Nóra Keresztes, and Dr. Valerie Bullock. As a chorister, Emily has sung with academic and professional ensembles across the United States and abroad in England, Spain, 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. Bohl's music theatre experience includes West Side Story, Into the Woods, Little Women, and Once Upon a Mattress, and operatic work includes Doctor Miracle (Bizet); in addition to numerous scene shows and cabaret-style performances in both disciplines.