Katie Woolf

Known for her innovative programming, Katie Woolf (she/her) is emerging as a conductor with a special expertise in working with developed high school voices. She is hailed by colleagues and students alike as a passionate and energetic artist, equally at home in traditional and contemporary repertoire, who encourages her students to go beyond the boundaries of their imagination in their vocal work. 

Dr. Woolf began her career in Boston, as the Assistant Conductor of the Radcliffe Choral Society at Harvard University. She traveled with the ensemble at home and abroad, most notably on a 2008 tour combining musical performances with community service in Costa Rica. Helping to develop Harvard’s vocal program, she taught voice, mounted benefit recitals featuring student singers in collaboration with local professionals and brought students opportunities to perform in master and studio classes on campus and in the greater Boston community. Dr. Woolf also served for eight summers on the vocal faculty of Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and in 2006 was the soprano soloist in Poulenc’s Gloria for BUTI’s 40th Anniversary celebration. She returned to the BUTI faculty in summer of 2016 as Conductor of the Young Artists Chorus. 

From 2011 – 2019, Dr. Woolf taught at the  Cobb County Center of Excellence in the Performing Arts, a magnet school in a suburb of Atlanta. As the program’s Director of Choral and Vocal Music, she led the CCCEPA choirs to local and national acclaim including performances at the Festival of Women’s Choruses at Harvard University and a performance on NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley which can be found here.

In the fall of 2019, Dr. Woolf began teaching chorus at The Paideia School in Atlanta, GA. She holds degrees in voice and conducting from Furman University, Boston University and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. An avid choral musician, she has sung with the Carnegie Hall Choral Institute, the Boston-based Cantata Singers, the Marsh Chapel Choir of Boston University, and Coro Vocati, a professional chorus based in Atlanta, and continues to perform with the ASO Chorus and Chamber Chorus.