Dr. Kristina Boerger, received her formative training from pianist Annie Sherter and holds the doctorate in Choral Conducting and Literature from the University of Illinois. She has directed independent choirs in Urbana-Champaign and New York City, public-school choirs in Wisconsin and Illinois, and the choral programs at Carroll University, the University of Illinois School of Music, the DePauw School of Music, Augsburg University, and the University of St. Thomas. Her guest conductorships include the Rose Ensemble, the Madison Early Music Festival, the Kalamazoo Bach Festival, the Chicago Children’s Choirs, the Christopher Caines Dance Company, Alarm Will Sound, An Opera Theater, ODC/Dance, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Chanticleer.

Her credits as a chamber singer include the Manhattan-based touring/recording ensembles Western Wind, Pomerium, and Vox Vocal Ensemble, as well as the Minnesota-based The Rose Ensemble, The Mirandola Ensemble, and La Grande Bande. Other recording credits include projects with Bobby McFerrin, Early Music New York, Rocky Maffit, and Pan Morigan. She appeared in the acclaimed 2006 and 2009 runs at the BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Harvey Theater of Sir Jonathan Miller’s semi-staged Bach Saint Matthew Passion. In 1992 she sang the Soprano Evangelist in the Canadian premiere of Arvo Pärt’s Passio.

Boerger’s work in the 1990s as Founding Director of AMASONG: Champaign-Urbana’s Premier Lesbian/Feminist Chorus is the subject of Jay Rosenstein’s acclaimed documentary The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out, which was produced with grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Independent Television Service. The film toured festivals worldwide before enjoying its US national broadcast debut in June of 2004. With AMASONG Boerger directed two award-winning recordings (Over Here the Water is Sweet, 1998 GLAMA for Best Choral Performance; AMAI, 2000 GLAMAS for Best Choral Performance and Best Classical Composition), performed at several national venues, and toured the Czech Republic.

Boerger’s self-published choral arrangements are widely performed, and her treble-chorus settings of poetry by Sarah White are published by Boosey & Hawkes.