Bio
Sierra Rose Farquhar-Wulff is a choral-orchestral conductor based in Birmingham, England. She is the Music Director for the Leicester University Chamber Choir and Ryton Chorale, and is a Choral Entrepreneur with Warwick-A Singing Town. Sierra received her Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami and master's degrees in conducting from the University of Birmingham and California State University Fullerton.
Sierra has conducted numerous collegiate choirs and orchestras internationally. She has had the honor of performing with the LA Philharmonic and John Williams, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and served as chorus master for Andrea Bocelli at the Hollywood Bowl. Much of Mrs. Farquhar-Wulff's early career was spent teaching youth choir, orchestra, and general music. She also piloted and developed youth choral programs at two music nonprofits, served as Chief Operating Officer at one choral arts nonprofit, and directed multiple adult community choirs around Portland, Oregon.
Sierra has received many awards and scholarships for her academic work, including nominations to the Rhodes Scholarship and Fulbright Scholar Competitions. In her graduate studies Sierra focused her academic studies on researching gender discrimination in the choral conducting profession. Her research has received awards and recognition from many institutions and has been published by the American Choral Director's Association.
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Discounting Our Colleagues: Gender Inequity in the Choral Conducting Profession
Choral Journal
|In this article, I share interviews with twelve leading women choral and orchestral conductors from across the United States, statistics from government and nonprofit studies, literature reviews, and articles, all of which share a concerning continued disparity in both the academic and professional spheres.
