Marleen De Boo got a taste for choir music early on when she herself was a member of Youth Choir Waelrant. She studied at the Lemmens Institute in Leuven where she received the diploma “Laureate of Music Pedagogy” with first prizes for Solfege, Harmony and Counterpoint. Shortly thereafter she also received a Master in Choral Conducting” with Erik Van Nevel.
At the Academy of Music, Word and Dance in Lier, Marleen teaches solfège, choir and various group singing classes, both for young people and adults. Moreover, she teaches choral conducting at this academy. At the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp she teaches within the academic postgraduate course “Children- and Youth choir Conducting”. From 2009 to 2014 she conducted the student choir of the Catholic University of Leuven.
In Antwerp, her hometown, she is very active in the choir-organization “Waelrant”. Within this structure, she conducts the Chamber Choir, the Youth Choir and three Children choirs of different ages. In total about 250 singing members. With the Waelrant Youthchoir she travelled abroad on several occasions, always with very positive reactions. As a conductor, Marleen De Boo is mainly interested in the pedagogical aspects of choral singing. She is driven to train choir singers and to show amateurs, especially children and young people, the beauty of choral music.