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Our Director and Accompanist    

             Barbara Wygal Lutz, Director

Since 1978 Barbara Wygal Lutz has been involved in numerous artistic endeavors throughout the Greenbrier Valley.  Upon receiving her Bachelor of Music Education from West Virginia Wesleyan College, she came to Lewisburg to work with the Greenbrier Valley Theatre.  In 1990, Mrs. Lutz helped establish the Greenbrier Valley Chorale, and has since conducted the community choir in more than 50 concerts.  Her work with young people includes being guest conductor and clinician to various choral groups, instructor of drama and music camps, and for the past seventeen years, Director of Choral Music at Alleghany High School in Virginia.  In the fall of 2006, she begins her tenure as choral director and piano lab instructor at Greenbrier East High School in Greenbrier County, WV.  Over the years she has performed in or directed more than 20 musicals, including The King and I, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, Company, The Music Man and Annie, and has appeared in many revues and benefits.  She has studied with such renowned conductors as Joseph Flummerfelt and Andrew Megill and in 1997, Mrs. Lutz was selected by audition to participate in the prestigious Professional Training Workshop directed by the late Robert Shaw in New York.  She lives in Ronceverte, WV with her husband Joseph. 

           Teresa D. Bryant, Accompanist

Teresa D. Bryant is the music specialist at Ronceverte Elementary School.  Before coming to Ronceverte Elementary, she taught music at Greenbrier East High School for 15 years.  Mrs. Bryant was also responsible for the implementation and instruction of the Orff/Koldy music program in the Covington, VA city school system.  Mrs. Bryant holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Music Education from Radford University.  She has been accompanist for all-regional choirs for the Virginia Music Education Association State Convention; for Sally K. Albrecht, Director of the West Virginia All-State Children’s Chorus; and for Dr. James Litton, the retired Litton-Lodal Music Director and Conductor of the American Boychoir.  She has also accompanied vocal and instrumental soloists.  A student of Dr. Lloyd Zurbrigg, Mrs. Bryant conducted a studio for private piano instruction while she was a student.  She and her husband Jeff are the parents of two sons, Nathaniel and Carrington.