Julie Whittington McCoy

Associate Professor
Ann Waggoner Annex - 205
817.531.4977

jmccoy@txwes.edu

Julie Whittington McCoy, soprano, combines careers in performing and teaching. Most recently, Ms. McCoy performed with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Texas Choral Artists and Orpheus Chamber Singers. She appeared as a guest soloist with Fort Worth Early Music, Tulsa Sinfonia, Tulsa Oratorio Society and Austin Choral Artists. Dallas Morning News recently commended her "strong, stirring soprano."Tulsa World called her singing "luminous" and praised her "burnished tone and delicately emotional reading."

In 1994, Ms. McCoy performed as an Artistic Ambassador with pianist Cynthia Cortright. On a four-week tour under the auspices of the U.S. State Department, McCoy and Cortright presented concerts, lectures, and master classes in Israel, Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Syria.

As a member and soloist, Ms. McCoy performed and recorded with Robert Shaw Festival Singers in France and New York City from 1990-1999. The Festival Singers are featured on several releases from Telarc Recording Company, including Amazing Grace, Evocation of the Spirit and Appear and Inspire. She often sings with Conspirare Chamber Choir, based in Austin. As a member of Conspirare, she participated in the recording of Threshold of Night, a Harmonia Mundi compact disc released in 2008.

Ms. McCoy was awarded opera apprenticeships with the Mississippi Opera Festival of the South and the New Orleans Opera. As a recitalist, she premiered works by Donald Grantham, Steven Rush and Brant Adams. She earned Bachelor of Music in Secondary Education and Master of Music in Vocal Performance degrees from The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining the Texas Wesleyan University voice faculty in the fall of 2005, she taught at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas Christian University in Fort Worth and Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.

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