Bios and Studio Info

Wendy's Bio

I became a Bahá'í in 1964 after hearing about it from a classmate in a music theory class at San Francisco State College
where I was majoring in double bass. I never completed my degree in music, but I have taken many college music classes
over the years, having sung in large choirs and smaller chamber choirs. I have studied voice at various times along the way.

I was drafted to direct a Bahá'í choir in the early 1970s called The New Dawn Singers since I was the only one they could
find at that time who had any experience at all with directing (I had actually conducted my high school choir in a
performance). That choir morphed into a successful road show called The Welcome Change, which performed all over
California and Nevada giving the Bahá'í message through the music interspersed with explanations of the history and
teachings by the choir members. (Ron Lyles sang in the choir and also soloed with us. He became a Bahá'í at that time.) We
had few choral arrangements back then, so I wrote them myself using Seals & Crofts songs, England Dan and John Ford
Coley songs, and other Bahá'í and Bahá'í-related music.

I was a freelance bass player with local symphonies and played bass in the Bahá'í World Congress Orchestra (my husband
Bob played clarinet and my daughter Anissa sang in the choir). After the World Congress, another choir was started in the
San Francisco Bay Area, The Bahá'í World Choir, which I directed for five years. I have had a couple of smaller choirs where
I live in the Modesto area and have studied voice. I sang in the Voices of Bahá in Slovakia in 2000 and was one of the choir
directors in the Carnegie Hall concert in 2002. I sang in the chorus of Russ Garcia's recording of The Unquenchable Flame,
an opera about Táhirih. I toured with the Bahá'í Gospel Choir in Western Europe in 2004 and also recently sang with the
Third Annual Bahá'í Choir Festival at the Bahá'í Temple in Wilmette. I have also sung in the Modesto Symphony Chorus,
and I've been performing in some opera choruses including two separate productions of Porgy & Bess (backstage chorus),
Showboat, The Magic Flute, and H.M.S. Pinafore with the Townsend Opera Players in Modesto.

Summer 2010 Update: Wendy will continue to sing with the Townsend Opera for their next season!!

-Wendy Scott