Dr. Wendy K. Moy is an Associate Professor and Chair of Music Education at Syracuse University, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate coursework in music education, conducting, choral literature, and rehearsal techniques, and directs the Oratorio Society. Prior to Syracuse, she served as Director of Choral Activities and Head of Music Education at Connecticut College. She is the Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director of Chorosynthesis Singers — the 2024 winner of The American Prize in Choral Performance, professional division — and Founder/Artistic Director of Ensemble Sonora, a semi-professional treble choir that performs music engaging with the issues and stories that shape our communities.

An ACDA International Conducting Fellow, Dr. Moy has served on the ACDA Standing Committee for International Activities and has guest conducted and adjudicated ensembles across the country and internationally. She made her international conducting debut with the Coral da Universidade Federal da Gazzi de Sá at the Festival Paraibano de Coros in João Pessoa, Brazil, and returned in 2024 as the festival’s headliner. She has also conducted in Shenzhen, China, and led All-State and Honor choirs in New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Illinois, and Washington State. A third-place winner of The American Prize in Choral Conducting, professional division, she was recently awarded the Paul and Veronica Abel Award for Choral Performance by Civic Morning Musicals.

A passionate advocate for new music and social consciousness in the choral art, Dr. Moy has premiered and commissioned numerous works by established and emerging composers. Under her co-direction, Chorosynthesis Singers released Empowering Silenced Voices on the Centaur Records label, a two-CD collection of new music on themes of social consciousness, and established the Empowering Silenced Voices Database for Socially Conscious Choral Music. She has also served as Artistic Director of the Hartford Gay Men’s Chorus and Director of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Chorus.

Dr. Moy’s research centers on the culture of singing communities and fostering belonging in the choral ensemble. Oxford University Press published her research in Together in Music: Participation, Co-Ordination, and Creativity in Ensembles, and Routledge published her book Resurrecting Song: A Pathway Forward for the Choral Art in the Time of Pandemics. Her research has also appeared in the Choral Journal. She has presented her work at national and international conferences sponsored by ACDA, Chorus America, NAfME, the National Collegiate Choral Organization, the College Music Society, the Society for Education and Music Psychology Research, the International Society for Music Education, and the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition.

Dr. Moy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music Education from Seattle Pacific University, a Master of Music Education from Westminster Choir College, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting from the University of Washington.