Associate Director, Rockbridge Chorus

Dr. Scott WilliamsoN

Scott Williamson, our Associate Director for the Rockbridge Chorus and Chamber Singers, is familiar to many in the Rockbridge community as a frequent guest soloist and performer with the RCS over the past two decades, including as the judge in the Rockbridge Chorus’s spring 2025 performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury.

Scott’s performance career includes works of western music, including more than 100 premieres. As an internationally recognized tenor, the Times of London called his debut at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre “brilliant”. His performance work has been praised in the New York Times, Opera News, and The Washington Post.

As General and Artistic Director of Opera Roanoke from 2010 - 2018, he created their Apprentice Artist Program and co-produced notable company premiers including the Flying Dutchman and South Pacific. Scott is a Fulbright Scholar with a 2019 season spent on the faculty of West University in Romania, where he worked in Music and Theatre, International Relations, and at the Center for Trans-Disciplinary Research.

For many years, Williamson was the Music Director of Temple Emanuel in Roanoke, where he has also served on the board of the historic Grandin Theatre and as a guest curator in music and a Museum Studies Director at the Taubman Museum of Art. As a teacher and conductor, he has served on the faculties of Goshen College, Hollins University and Virginia Tech. He began his career at Washington and Lee University in 1996, where as visiting Assistant Professor of Music, he continues to teach, perform and conduct. Through it all, he is in consistent demand as a guest artist. As if that were not enough, his poetry has appeared in the Atlanta Review and the Tupelo Quarterly.

Children’s Choir Director

Katelyn Roll

Katelyn Roll is thrilled to once again return to RYC . Back in 2019, Katelyn worked as an intern, then served as Interim Director of the Children’s Choir during the 2020-2021 season, and then was the first Kids Music Instructor from 2021-2022. She then took a two year break, returned for the 2024-2025 season and has been Children’s Choir Director for the past 2 years.

Katelyn proudly holds a Bachelors degree in Music Education with a Choral Conducting concentration from Southern Virginia University. She most recently severed as Children’s Choir Director for the Wayne Theater’s production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Katelyn is active musically in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. She serves as the children’s music leader and on assignment, Choir Director of a choir composed of individuals across several congregation. She is excited for another season with RYC and to make music again!