Khyle B. Wooten

Khyle B. Wooten (he/they), a native of Philadelphia, PA, is Director of Choral Activities and Assistant Professor of Music Performance at Ithaca College. He maintains professional activities as a conductor, educator, researcher, and composer. Previously, he maintained middle and high school teaching posts with charter schools in the cities of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Atlanta, Georgia.

At present, Wooten leads ongoing research on the choral works of Black women composers, presenting regularly at regional and national conferences. He is an inaugural fellow of the Future of Music Faculty Fellowship with the Cleveland Institute of Music and the New Canon Project of the American Choral Directors and American String Teachers Associations. His choral recent works include Assurance (SATB), The Dream Keeper (SSA), and an arrangement of Samuel Coleridge Taylor’s Life and Death (TTBB). 

Wooten holds degrees in music education and choral conducting from Lincoln University of PA (BS), Georgia State University (MM), and Florida State University (PhD).