MEET YOUR DIRECTORS
MOLLY BOEHLJE
Preparatory Choir Director
My name is Molly Boehlje (Bowl-Jee) and I am in my sixth year of teaching Elementary Music at Sawyer Elementary here in Ames! This year, I will also be teaching once a week at Mitchell Elementary. I live in Grimes, but I adore the Ames Community and am so very excited to be a part of the Ames Community Children's Chorus. With my students, I love to build relationships, play, sing, move, and really give them the chance to experience music. I look forward to expanding my relationships across the Ames community this year!
Concert Choir and Chorale Director
Erika Johnson is a vocal and general music teacher for the Ames Community School District where she teaches K-5 general music and an extracurricular choir. She has worked with children in the performing arts for 22 years, encompassing preschool through high school teaching, private voice and violin instruction, children’s choir director, and musical theater director. Mrs. Johnson studied music education and vocal performance at Ithaca College and completed Kodaly training at Wichita State University. She resides in Ames and enjoys reading and spending time with her husband and three young children.
ERICA JOHNSON
Operations Manager
Emily Malamos teaches music to students in grades PK-6 at St. Cecilia. She graduated from Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, with a Bachelor of Music in Education. Her experience includes: 5-12 band instructor for Paton-Churdan, 7-8 band instructor for Greene County Schools in Jefferson, Iowa, and a full-time K-4 music position for Greene County.
Mrs. Malamos and her husband live in Ames with their two young children. She enjoys learning new skills and being crafty in her free time, as well as spending time with family and watching her children explore the world around them.