Welborn Young is Director of Choral Activities and Associate Professor of Music at the University of north Carolina at Greensboro, where he was the recipient of the 2007 Outstanding Teacher of the Year award. He directs the university Chamber Singers and teaches graduate conducting and graduate seminars in choral repertoire.
For seven years, Dr. Young served as conductor of the Choral Society of Greensboro in performances of major choral-orchestral works. He has been a featured festival conductor at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Netherlands, at the York Minster International Choral Festival in Great Britain, and at Carnegie Hall. He has served as guest conductor and clinician in festivals and clinics in North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, South Carolina, Washington, D.C., Illinois and Oregon. His choirs have toured in Europe in such cities as Florence, Milan, Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Cambridge, and London. He was guest conductor of Chicago's Grant Park Symphony Chorus and assisted with the preparation of their first recording.
His choirs have received positive reviews in papers such as the Chicago Sun Times and Chicago Tribune, which referred to his performances as "glorious", "precision-honed", and "shining." He has prepared and conducted the Nashville Symphony Chorus and appeared as guest conductor with the Nashville Opera Association. In addition, he has prepared his choirs for performances with John Rutter, Dimitry Sitkovetsky and Stuart Malina. He holds the D.M.A. in choral conducting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master's degree from Middle Tennessee State University.
As the Artistic Director and Conductor of Bel Canto Company, Welborn Young is committed not only to the performance of choral music at the highest level of vocal artistry but to the development of greater understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of choral music for its audiences.