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.

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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.”

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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.