Dr. Emelyne Bingham

Dr. Emelyne Bingham is an American conductor, speaker, and an autism self-advocate. She has led concerts of the Nashville Symphony as its assistant conductor and the Columbus Women’s Orchestra as its music director as well as performances of the Toledo Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Nashville Opera, Nashville Ballet, and Ars Nova Huntsville. She has conducted recordings with the New York City Ballet Orchestra and members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and New York Philharmonic. She has served as the artistic director for the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences outreach project in partnership with the Leonard Bernstein Center and the Nashville Symphony. Currently, she serves as the Artistic Director of the Young Texas Artists Music Competition and teaches at the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University. In 2011, she was named a research member at the esteemed Vanderbilt Kennedy Center where she assists with research on music and autism. Her numerous performances in the recording, broadcast, and movie studio with colleagues ranging from Larry Gatlin to Sandi Patti to Amy Grant, have been broadcast on A&E, MTV, CMT, Public Television, the NAXOS American Classics Series, and National Public Radio. Dr. Bingham has given keynote presentations for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the ABLE Assembly at the Berklee School of Music, and the 16. Fachtagung für Inklusives Musizieren, Institut für musikpädagogische Forschung, Musikdidaktik und Elementares Musizieren, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. Dr. Bingham is an active member of Pi Kappa Lambda and the Recording Academy and holds degrees from Boston University and the Indiana University School of Music.