Anne Watson Born

Anne Watson Born is thrilled to begin her second season with the Nashoba Valley Chorale. Ms. Watson Born has been a choral conductor and teacher in the Boston area for many years. She is also the Director of Music Ministry at the First Unitarian Society in Newton and an adjunct professor at Bristol Community College in Fall River.

Ms. Watson Born was an Assistant Professor at Bristol Community College for five years; while there she taught Music Theory, Music History, Vocal Production, and Chorus. She is also the voice coach, composer and sound designer for the Bristol Community College Theatre Repertory Company. In that capacity she has been the music director for productions of Marat/Sade and Threepenny Opera and has composed original music and/or improvised live music for several theatre productions, including The Tempest, Black Elk Speaks, Fireflies, The Bacchae, Alice in Wonderland, and Aladdin. She was the Music Director of the Brookline Chorus and taught at the Brookline Music School for many years. She was the founding Artistic Director of the Women’s Chorus of Boston and the Avenue of the Arts Chorale and in 2002 conducted the Boston-area performance of the Rolling Requiem to commemorate the tragedy of September 11.

Ms. Watson Born holds a B.A. degree in Music from University of the Pacific in Stockton California, where she studied conducting with William Dehning. She moved to Boston and obtained a Masters Degree in Choral Conducting from New England Conservatory, where her principal teacher was Lorna Cooke DeVaron. She has also studied conducting with Helmuth Rilling and Murry Sidlin, composition with John Heiss and Andrew Imbrie, and voice with Jeanne Segal and Michael Strauss. At various times she has tried to master jazz piano, classical 'cello, and African drumming. She lives in Jamaica Plain with her husband and daughter.