Julie Whittington McCoy
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ann Waggoner 205
817.531.4977
jmccoy@txwes.edu

McCoy Events

 

 

 

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.

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.

McCoy Events

March 24 & 25 at 7 p.m.
Vivaldi "Four Seasons"
Mozart "Exsultate Jubilate"
Julie McCoy, soprano
Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts
Walsh Fine Arts Center
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March 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Guest Artist Recital
Julie McCoy, soprano
Mark Stamper, piano
Union University in Jackson, TN
Hartley Recital Hall
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April 2 at 11 a.m.
Mozart "Solemn Vespers"
Julie McCoy, soprano
FUMC Dallas
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May 14 at 2:30 p.m.
Music for Mother's Day
Julie McCoy, soprano
Texas Choral Artists
St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church
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