Dr. Lindsey Bruner Woodcock is Director of Choral Activities and Coordinator of Music Education at Meredith College. She directs three choirs and teaches courses in elementary music methods, secondary choral methods, conducting, and supervises Music Education students through their student teaching internships. Lindsey has enjoyed a varied teaching career in elementary, middle school, high school, collegiate, community, and church settings.

As a conductor, singer, and double bassist, she has immersed herself in community music-making. Originally from Des Moines, Iowa, Lindsey has served as Fundraising Chair for Des Moines Choral Society, Assistant Conductor of the Chamber Singers of Iowa City, and member of the Des Moines Community Orchestra, Des Moines Bluegrass, Indianola Community Jazz Band, University of Illinois Oratorio Society, Ecco early music ensemble, and was a founding member of Des Moines Camerata.

Lindsey earned her DMA degree from the University of Georgia, where she studied with Daniel Bara and J.D. Burnett. She received her MM degree in Choral

Conducting and Pedagogy from the University of Iowa under the instruction of Timothy Stalter and David Puderbaugh. Her BM degree in Vocal Music Education is from Iowa State University, where she found her love of conducting with the guidance of James Rodde.

Lindsey enjoys serving as a guest conductor and adjudicator across North Carolina and the Midwest. She is also an active choral singer and soloist in the Triangle area. Her current research is focused on audience engagement and the ways in which interactive performances can create more impactful listening experiences. Her findings have been presented at American Choral Directors Association and Chorus America conferences across the country, and she continues to be sought after as a consultant for professional and civic choirs on the subject of interactive performance.

Mark Woodcock serves as the Director of Music at First Presbyterian Church Raleigh and is a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois. With graduate degrees from Truman State University and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre he has taught at the University of Illinois, Piedmont University, Graceland University and Truman State University and has prepared choirs for performances in Alice Tully Hall, Chicago’s Symphony Center, and the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. 

As a singer he has performed throughout Europe and North America with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Chorus, UMass Amherst Bach Festival, Illinois Bach Academy, Voices of a New Renaissance, Coro Vocati, and the NCState Choral Artists. He has performed extensively with the Estonian groups Voces Tallinn, Heinavanker, Nuku Koor, Rahvusooperi Eesti Poistekoor, and in the Estonian National Song Festival which is a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.

Dr. Megan Boyd has experience teaching choral music at all levels, elementary through university and in the community sector. She is an active adjudicator and clinician having conducted at Carnegie Hall, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and La Madeleine in Paris, France, among others. Dr. Boyd has led performances at state and divisional American Choral Directors Association Conferences and currently performs with the professional women’s chorus mirabai.

Dr. Boyd previously held appointments at Concordia University Ann Arbor, Young Professionals Choral Collective of Cincinnati, and Xavier University where Dr. Boyd

conducted the 2019 world premiere of award-winning jazz pianist Josh Nelson’s Over Millenia. She founded the YPCC Chamber Choir selected to perform at the 2019 Ohio ACDA Sumer Conference. As a middle school and high school educator, Dr. Boyd’s ensembles consistently earned Superior Ratings at the North Carolina Music Performance Adjudication and was invited to perform at the 2009 North Carolina Governor’s Inauguration.

In addition to her work on the podium, Dr. Boyd has presented interest sessions at state music conferences and in university classrooms and has been published in the Choral Journal. Dr. Boyd holds a B.M. in music education and voice performance from Boston University and an M.M. and D.M.A. in choral conducting from Michigan State University where she studied with Drs. David Rayl, Sandra Snow, and Jonathan Reed. She is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society.

Dr. Boyd currently resides in Raleigh, NC with her husband and two children.