About me
Ms. Jaime Alberts is the director of the Bigelow Choruses. She also directs the Newton All City Honors Chorus: Troubadours, teaches 7th and 8th grade general music, 6th and 8th grade drama, co-directs the Bigelow drama after-school program, and is the faculty advisor to Freshman Cabaret at Newton North High School. Ms. Alberts has a master's degree in music education from The Boston Conservatory and a bachelor's degree in public policy from Brown University. She is certified in both music and drama.
Ms. A is originally from Evanston, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. She started singing at Solomon Schechter Day School, continued at Evanston Township High School and Interlochen Arts Camp, then finally started her own choir in college, sang in the Madrigals and Chorus, and ran the Band at at Brown University. She has sung with the National Philharmonic Chorale, the Western Wind Workshop, and is the former Mary Wolfman Epstein Conducting Fellow with the Zamir Chorale. She enjoys repertoire from around the world, particularly folk songs, musicals, and contemporary classical works. Some of her favorite choral composers are Jim Papoulis, Matthew Harris, and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Ms. A's first name is spelled Jaime, which looks like the Spanish name Haime but is pronounced Jay-me. It's spelled funny because in French, J'aime means "I love." Ms A's parents thought that was cool, and so does she, even though people spell it wrong a lot.
Ms. A is originally from Evanston, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. She started singing at Solomon Schechter Day School, continued at Evanston Township High School and Interlochen Arts Camp, then finally started her own choir in college, sang in the Madrigals and Chorus, and ran the Band at at Brown University. She has sung with the National Philharmonic Chorale, the Western Wind Workshop, and is the former Mary Wolfman Epstein Conducting Fellow with the Zamir Chorale. She enjoys repertoire from around the world, particularly folk songs, musicals, and contemporary classical works. Some of her favorite choral composers are Jim Papoulis, Matthew Harris, and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Ms. A's first name is spelled Jaime, which looks like the Spanish name Haime but is pronounced Jay-me. It's spelled funny because in French, J'aime means "I love." Ms A's parents thought that was cool, and so does she, even though people spell it wrong a lot.
Ms A's Big Adventure
In 2017, Ms A took a sabbatical to travel the world and (literally) expand her horizons. She visited 14 countries, ate many delicious things, saw choirs in New Zealand and theatre in Scotland, and made friends all over the world. You can read about her adventures here.