William Woodruff
voice teacher.
William Woodruff is currently professor of voice at the Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico. He is the founder and director of the International Institute of Vocal Arts with summer programs in Chiari, Italy, Tampa, Florida, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is also on the faculty of Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music (CUNY) and maintains a private voice studio in New York City. His students are now appearing on stages across the globe, including the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera, La Fenice Venezia, Teatro Communale Bologna, Festival dei Due Mondi Spoletto, New Israeli Opera, Graz Oper, Vienna Staatsoper, Vienna Volksoper, Vienna Krammeroper, Frankfurt Opera, La Scala, Berlin Oper, as well as opera houses in Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Mexico City and Oslo.
His former academic engagements have been with Northwestern University, South Methodist University, the University of South Florida, and Florida Southern College. As a member of the faculty of IVAI he has taught in Tel Aviv, Israel, Mexico City, Mexico, Montreal, Canada, and Shanghai, China. Mr. Woodruff’s skill as a teacher and adjudicator is evidenced by his frequent Master Classes and workshops with opera companies around the world, including the New Israeli Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, the Opera di Verona, the Conservatories of Shanghai, and Mexico, and the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest where for two seasons he was the director of the Young Artist Program.
Mr. Woodruff’s professional singing engagements have included a wide range of repertoire, spanning opera, oratorio, musical theater and song literature. Some of his performances have been with the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera, the Bethlehem Bach Festival, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Little Orchestra Society.
