Kody Wallace, Ph.D.

• B.M.E., University of Florida
• M.M.E., Florida State University
• Ph.D., Florida State University

Dr. Kody Wallace serves as Adjunct Professor of Music at Catawba College, where he teaches coursework in Music History.  Dr. Wallace also serves as Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Livingstone College, and he previously served on the faculty of Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan.  He is also a member of the choral conducting faculty of the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and serves on the board of the North Carolina American Choral Director’s Association.

An active choral clinician, Dr. Wallace has conducted regional honor choirs in Michigan (2023), New York (2020), Georgia (2018), and Florida (2016).  He has performed and conducted at numerous conferences of the American Choral Director’s Association at the National (2019), Southern Division (2018), and state levels (Michigan, 2023, Florida 2017).  His primary research interests include embodied cognition, music perception, and gesture.  Wallace’s work has been published in the Choral Journal, the national organ of the American Choral Directors Association.  He also has scholarly editions in print with Walton and Hinshaw of works by composers including Tomàs Luis de Victoria, Giovanni Gabrieli, and William Byrd.  Dr. Wallace has presented at music education conferences in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Michigan.

Dr. Wallace studied conducting with Andrè Thomas, Kevin Fenton, Alexander Jimènez, and Mihoko Tsutsumi.  He has collaborated with artists including the Florida Orchestra, Fisk Jubilee Singers, and Apollo5.  He lives in Huntersville, NC, with his wife Kathleen; sons David and John; and pets Jasmine, Ralph, and Edith.