Cheryl Dupont, NOCC Executive/Artistic Director Emerita and Crescent City Choral Festival Executive/Artistic Director.

Cheryl Dupont, Executive/Artistic Director Emerita, spent 36 years as the Executive/Artistic Director of the New Orleans Children’s Chorus. Although known throughout the United States primarily for her work with children’s choirs, she is also experienced at working with mixed choirs on high school, college and adult levels and teaching and conducting in elementary, middle and high schools. Her choirs have appeared at state and regional conferences of the American Choral Directors Association and the national conference of the Organization of Kodaly Educators.

Cheryl has served as guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator nationwide, and frequently guest conducts children’s, middle and high school honor choirs and all-state choirs. She has frequently guest conducted choir and orchestra at Carnegie Hall, where she also conducted the New Orleans Children’s Chorus in solo performances. Cheryl is a Master Teacher for the Choral Music Experience Institute, and worked for many years in the field of advanced training of choral teacher/conductors in the U.S. as well as England, Scotland and Sweden. Cheryl also taught and directed CME courses in South Carolina, North Carolina and Kansas for fifteen years, She is the Executive/Artistic Director of the Crescent City Choral Festival, a national choral festival for youth, which is in its 24th successful year, and is the conductor of the NOCC Alumni Chorus.

Widely known as an expert and leader in the children and youth choir area, Cheryl has held many leadership positions in the American Choral Directors Association, including three terms as ACDA National Chair for Children and Community Youth Choirs. She is the founder of the Louisiana ACDA Children’s All-State Choir, and recently stepped away from that position after 30 years of service.