Lauren Kahn
Lauren has been singing barbershop since she was eight years old. During high school, she was the bass section leader in Region 15's Hickory Tree Chorus, and throughout college she sang with Region 3's Melodeers Chorus, with whom she was also a bass section leader, singing her way to a gold medal at the 2008 International Convention. She has sung in several barbershop quartets as well, including the 2024 Region 12 Champions, Equilibrium.
Lauren has a deep passion for directing and arranging. During her early years as Emerald Valley's director, she directed and arranged music for Mind the Gap, the University of Oregon's gender inclusive acappella group. She currently also directs the Oregon Children's Choir's high school treble acappella group, Synergy. She has arranged over a hundred songs in the barbershop and contemporary a cappella styles.
In her "real life," Lauren is a data engineer at a digital mental health tech startup. She received a PhD in Psycholoigy from the University of Oregon, studying the science of behavior change and motivation. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, playing the piano, drawing, writing music, spinning in circles while trying to pass it off as dancing, and laughing at you for thinking there's actually something called "spare time." After all, if you had extra time - why wouldn't you fill it up with music?
