In Celebration of the Human Voice - The Essential Musical Instrument

Dr. Julie Yu

Living in: United States
Award-winning choral conductor and music educator Dr. Julie Yu is artistic director of Canterbury Voices, having returned to Oklahoma in 2023 to accept the joint leadership position of Canterbury and director of choral activities at the Wanda L. Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University.

She holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting with specialized studies in Early Music from the University of North Texas, a Masters degree in Choral Conducting from Oklahoma State University, and a Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Central Oklahoma. Her choirs have performed in Carnegie Hall, at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., as well as in Austria, Czech Republic, and France. She was an ACDA International Conducting Exchange Fellow to Kenya in 2019 and has led All-State choruses from Florida to Utah to Maine.

Yu conducted the Oklahoma Arts Institute (OAI) chorus at Quartz Mountain in 2016 and the At Home Chorus in 2020. She has presented and conducted at state and regional conferences of ACDA and the National Association for Music Education. She was featured conductor at Ireland s 2019 International Dublin Choral Festival and clinician and keynote speaker at the European Music Educators Association Conference in Naples, Italy. She is past president of ACDA s Southwestern Region.