Madeleine Xiang Woodworth

Mezzo-Soprano

Originally from the Chicago area, Madeleine Woodworth currently serves as the Director of Music at Grace Episcopal Church in Oak Park. She earned her Bachelor of Music in Organ Performance at the Eastman School of Music. During her time there, she won first prize in the American Guild of Organists' Regional Competition for Young Organists (Great Lakes Chapter) and the Westchester Organ Competition. Her interest in new music led her to collaborate with Wilhelmina Esary, to premiere a new piece called "On Track" for the organ as part of the AGO's Student Commissioning Project. She participated in student government and was inducted into the music fraternity, Sigma Alpha Iota. At the Yale School of Music and Yale Institute of Sacred Music, she completed her Master of Music in Choral Conducting and was awarded the Robert Shaw Prize for excellence in conducting and the Richard Paul DeLong Prize in church music.