Associate Director, Rockbridge Chorus

Dr. Scott WilliamsoN

Scott Williamson, our new 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, most recently 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

With a bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Southern Virginia University, Katelyn was our first Kids Music Program Director in 2021. Two years and two kids later, she returned to take over as our Children’s Choir Director for 2024/2025. In addition to being a mom of now three children, she most recently served as children’s choir director for the Wayne Theatre’s production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat. She is back with us for the 2025/2026 season!