Erin Plisco is the associate director of choral studies at Missouri State University, where she conducts multiple choirs and teaches undergraduate and graduate choral conducting and literature. Choirs under her direction performed at the 2022 ACDA Southwestern Region Conference, the 2022 and 2025 Missouri MEA Conferences, the 2023 National ACDA Conference, the 2023 the NCCO Conference, and Carnegie Hall. Plisco completed the DMA in choral conducting from the University of Arizona, where she studied conducting with Bruce Chamberlain and voice with Elizabeth Futral. She also studied at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, where she was a recipient of the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship and studied with Grammy-nominated conductor Stephen Layton.