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Marleen De Boo holds an MA in Music Pedagogy and Choral Conducting. She is a lecturer at the Royal Conservatory of Ant-werp, where she teaches "Children- and Youth Choir Conducting” among other courses. De Boo is also the artistic direc-tor of VZW Waelrantkoren, a non-profit organisation of eight choirs, four of them under her direction. Her conducting span covers different age groups with strong focus on pedagogical aspects of choral singing and children, as seen from her participation in international competi-tions and festivals with Youth Choir Wael-rant. Though De Boo is an adjudicator for national and international choral compe-titions, her main drive remains coaching singers and show amateurs, especially children, and passing onto them the beau-ty of choral music.