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A singer, conductor, choral director, and teacher, Noelle Dachis combines exceptional musicianship and performance experience with a commitment to education and youth choir. With a background both as a lyric soprano and an instrumentalist (piano and flute), Ms. Dachis also boasts two decades of experience teaching and conducting, primarily in the New York and New Jersey area. Though comfortable conducting and performing in a variety of musical genres, her focus on the classical repertoire brings together all the facets of her career in exciting and dynamic ways.
An accomplished conductor and choral director, Ms. Dachis was appointed Artistic Director of the New Jersey Choral Society (NJCS) Festival Youth Chorus in 2014, after being noticed when her school choir performed John Rutter’s Mass of the Children at Carnegie Hall in 2013. In recent years, the Youth Chorus’s repertoire has ranged from a celebration of world music to Leonard Bernstein’s monumental Mass to a celebration of Broadway legend Bob Fosse. In her position, Ms. Dachis has created opportunities for middle school and high school students, championing arts education in schools through the Choraleers and Chorale programs.
Reflecting her versatility across genres, she has conducted in concerts with Anthony Kearns (one of the Irish Tenors) and contemporary Christian music singer Mark Schultz, and has collaborated with the New Jersey and Connecticut Choral Societies, the opera company Teatro Grattacielo, the New Jersey Youth Orchestra, and a cappella sensation Rockapella. She has also worked with pop artist Belle and with the authors’ forum Writer’s Out LLC in the production of “Project Unified.”
She also continues to conduct other youth choirs, recruiting, training, and leading dedicated groups of young singers. In 2017, she coached and brought students to participate in a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem at Northern Italy’s Festival Como Citta Della Musica, under the baton of maestro Eric Dale Knapp. The year before, she recruited and prepared the youth chorus for the New York premiere of Vittorio Gnecchi’s opera Cassandra, and sang in the adult chorus herself.
Ms. Dachis performs professionally in three disciplines: voice, flute, and piano. A lyric soprano, she actively performs with The New Jersey Choral Society, recently singing solos in Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia in C minor, and Francis Poulenc’s
Stabat Mater. She has sung with the Buffalo and Rochester Philharmonic Orchestras, and has participated in many benefit concerts including those supporting the Children’s Aid and Family Services of New Jersey and the Pro Arte Chorale. Other performances include excerpts from Rogers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, opera scenes from Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Bizet’s Carmen, as well as Sister Genovieffa in Puccini’s Suor Angelica.
She currently studies with Metropolitan Opera bass Richard Bernstein.
Ms. Dachis is the founder and owner of the Dachis Music Studio, which offers instrumental and vocal lessons to students of all ages. A member of numerous professional music education organizations – including the American Choral Director’s Association and the National Association for Music Educators – she also teaches private music theory instruction for motivated students looking to pursue further excellence in music.
She hold a bachelor’s degree in music and is a certified K-12 music educator, which she put to good use early in her career as a school music teacher and chorus leader. Ms. Dachis lives in New Jersey with her family.