About Our Director
Barbara Wygal Lutz
Director & Conductor, Greenbrier Valley Chorale
Since 1978 Barbara Wygal Lutz has been involved in many of the artistic endeavors of the Greenbrier Valley. After helping establish the chorale in 1990, she has since conducted the community choir in more than 60 concerts.
Her work with young people includes being guest conductor and clinician to various choral groups, instructor of drama and music camps, director for student musical theater productions and seventeen years as a music educator at Alleghany High School in Virginia. In the spring of 2021, she retired after teaching choir, piano and music theory for 15 years at Greenbrier East High School.
- 1978Serving the arts of the Greenbrier Valley
- 1990Helped establish the chorale
- 60+Chorale concerts conducted
- 32Years as a high school music educator
A Life in Music
Over the years, she appeared in and was musical director for productions with the Greenbrier Valley Theatre and the Charleston Light Opera Guild and has sung in many revues and benefits. She is a member of the American Choral Directors Association and the National Association for Music Education (NAfME).
At West Virginia Wesleyan College she studied voice and conducting with Larry Parsons and has studied with such renowned conductors as Joseph Flummerfelt and Andrew Megill (Westminster Choir College) and René Clausen (composer, conductor, Concordia College).
In 1997, Mrs. Lutz was selected by audition to perform in the prestigious Professional Training Workshop directed by the late Robert Shaw, singing Mendelssohn’s Elijah at Carnegie Hall, New York.
She lives in Lewisburg, WV with her husband, Joseph.
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