Professor Wendy Moy, Assistant Professor of Music Education in the College of Visual and Performing Arts and the School of Education at Syracuse University, has received the 2024 American Prize in Choral Performance. She shares the prize with Jeremiah Selvey and the Chorosynthesis Singers, the professional chamber ensemble that Moy and Selvey co-direct.
The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts, founded by conductor and composer David (Volosin) Katz, is a comprehensive series of prizes for the performing arts, honoring orchestras to ensembles to soloists.
A 12-voice choir that connects music performance to community through the lens of social consciousness, the Chorosynthesis Singers performs in world-class venues, partners with other organizations as artists-in-residence and concert series guests, and annually provides new music reading sessions. The chorus received a second place American Prize in 2018, with a special citation for Extraordinary Commitment to New Music.
At Syracuse, Moy teaches undergraduate and graduate coursework in music education, conducting, rehearsal techniques, and choral literature, and directs the Concert Choir in the Setnor School of Music. She is the author of Resurrecting Song: A Pathway Forward for the Choral Art in the Time of Pandemics (Routledge, 2024).
Before joining Syracuse University, Moy was an associate professor of music at Connecticut College (2013-2020), where she was Director of Choral Activities and Head of Music Education. Before moving east, Moy conducted the University of Washington Women’s Chorus and the Seattle Pacific University Chamber Singers and taught secondary school orchestra, choir, and jazz choir.