Jane Ring Frank: 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
Jane Ring Frank is one of Greater Boston’s most acclaimed choral conductors. She brings to audiences an unerring ear for intonation and sound color, a command of choral and orchestral conducting, uncompromising scholarship, and a love of connecting with listeners. Since moving to Boston in 1991, Ring Frank has conducted at Harvard University, served as Director of Chapel Music at the Episcopal Divinity School, and served on the faculty of Emerson College. She was also the conductor of Philovox, E. C. Schirmer’s resident professional recording chorus, and Founding Director of the innovative Boston Secession, with whom she produced two significant recordings. She has toured in the United States, Southeast Asia, and Europe, and is currently Artistic Director of Concord Women’s Chorus as well as the Minister of Worship and the Arts at the First Congregational Church in Winchester. For twenty-two years, Ms. Frank was a Resident Scholar with the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University.