Giselle Wyers

Giselle Wyers is the Donald E. Petersen Endowed Professor of Choral Music at the University of Washington, where she conducts the award-winning University Chorale and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in choral conducting and music education. Her chorus Concord Chamber Choir placed second in the nation within the community choir category of the esteemed American Prize in 2025. Recent projects include Head Jury Member for the Busan International Choral Festival (Korea), as well as an appearance with Concord and partnering choirs in Carnegie Hall premiering her composition The Lips of the Sky (a choral cycle for chorus and string orchestra). In Spring of 2027, she will conduct the North Dakota All-State mixed choir, as well as taking Concord on a tour of the Tri-Cities region of Washington state.

Wyers’ work with educational honor choirs and all-state choruses is extensive, taking her to New York (Lincoln Center), Kansas, Wisconsin, Georgia, Missouri, Louisiana, Connecticut, Nebraska, Texas, Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Nevada, Texas and Vancouver, Canada. She has conducted semi-professional ensembles across the United States and in Germany, the Netherlands, Estonia, and Sweden. In addition to her career in conducting, Wyers has over 35 commissioned compositions in her catalog. Wyers is especially dedicated to composing works that explore the beauty, mystery and heartbreak we all experience as modern citizens in a complicated world. She is honored to have her choral works discussed in the new 2025 GIA publication Choral Music by Women Composers.