Joan Gregoryk

Joan Gregoryk, the founder and artistic director of the Children’s Chorus of Washington, is internationally recognized as a leader in the field of children’s vocal music. Gregoryk prepared the singers for their debut at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in November 1996 with The Washington Chorus in a performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony. She was invited by music director Leonard Slatkin to prepare the Chorus for four performances of Gabriel Pierné’s The Children’s Crusade with the National Symphony Orchestra and The Washington Chorus at the Kennedy Center and at Carnegie Hall in November of 1997.

Gregoryk taught for many years at Chevy Chase Elementary School where her work with the school’s chorus won her acclaim within professional music organizations, as well as invitations to perform within the United States and Europe. She is in demand as a workshop leader and guest conductor throughout the United States and Canada. At universities, such as Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ, she has taught music educator’s courses on children’s vocal development and the children’s chorus for many years. She has also been a seminar leader for Orff-Schulwerk, Kodály, and American Choral Directors and Music Educators chapters and is frequently invited to be a guest conductor for children’s choral festivals. 

Gregoryk has been awarded numerous honors including Outstanding Arts Educator in the United States by the Rockefeller Brothers Funds Awards in Arts Education and the Maryland Outstanding Elementary Music Educator. She holds both a bachelor’s and a master’s of arts in music education, and is an Artist-Teacher associate at the Choral Music Experience Institute.