Kimberly Wood

Kimberly Joy Wood was born in Washington, DC and raised in Landover, Maryland.  She is a graduate of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance and a Bachelor of Science in Music Education.  She graduated from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina and received a Master of Music in Vocal Performance.  Her teachers were Judith Howell, Louise Toppin, and Michael Forest.  She sang on the masterclasses of Sylvia Olden Lee, Donnie Ray Albert, Ray Wade and Dalton Baldwin. She has appeared in recital in North Carolina, Virginia, New York and St. Louis.  She was an instructor of voice at North Carolina Central University in Durham, NC where she taught applied voice, class voice and diction for singers.  She assumed the position of voice coordinator of the Department of Music in her second year of teaching at NCCU.  In addition to her work at NCCU, she worked as a Voice Instructor at the Music Academy of Eastern Carolina in Greenville and for a summer camp in Durham, NC.  Ms. Wood later served as the chorus teacher and arts specialist at the Sallie B. Howard School of the Arts and Education in Wilson. Her college students were state winners at the National Association of Teacher’s of Singing annual audition and her middle school students were accepted into the NC Honors Chorus.  As a competitor, Ms. Wood won an honorable mention in the NATS audition and 2nd place in the Leonytne Price vocal competition. With ECU’s Opera Theater, she sang the entire role of the Countess Almaviva in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Lucia in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, and Bess in a scene from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. She appeared as soloist with the Barton College and Wilson Symphonies in Wilson, North Carolina and in oratorio in Greenville, NC.  Ms. Wood is currently pursuing a DMA in Vocal Performance at the Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia.   She is the 2006-7 Videmus Lynn Bridges Award recipient.