Dr. Ellen Gilson Voth leads an active and fulfilling career as conductor and composer, educator and keyboard artist.

Currently Voth is Director of the Festival Chorus at the University of Connecticut, and recently served as Guest Conductor of the Collegium Musicum. She also serves as Artistic Director of the Farmington Valley Chorale based in Simsbury, CT, with performances and collaborations featuring music ranging from Handel’s oratorio Joseph to works of prominent living composers. Voth has served on the music faculties of Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT; Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, CT; Westfield State University in Westfield, MA; Western New England University in Springfield, MA; Gordon College in Wenham, MA; and the Ithaca College School of Music in Ithaca, NY.

For seven years, Voth served as Artistic Director of Novi Cantori, a professional chamber choir based in greater Springfield, MA, conducting nearly fifty performances of music from the Renaissance through the present, balancing traditional and innovative programming with new ventures in community outreach. She also served as Chorus Director of the Pioneer Valley Symphony Chorus (MA), as Director of the Symphonic Chorale at Gordon College (MA), as Assistant Conductor of the New Haven Chorale (CT), and as choral director at Perkiomen Valley High School in Collegeville, PA. For many summers Voth served on the faculty of the Masterworks Festival in Winona Lake, IN and the Csehy Summer School of Music in Langhorne, PA. Her guest conducting invitations continue to be regional and national in scope.

Voth is a singing member and guest conductor of CONCORA (Connecticut Choral Artists),  is a regular clinician, has been an active church musician for years throughout the Northeast, and performs frequently as a pianist and organist. She served as a  member of the Board of Choral Arts New England, a grant-awarding agency for choirs in the six New England states, and has served in multiple roles on the CT-ACDA state board.

Voth received her doctoral degree (DMA) from The Hartt School, Univ. of Hartford (CT), where she was the recipient of the Regents’ Honor Award for graduate students. Her dissertation research was a qualitative study of the use of moveable do solfège and the piano in the choral rehearsal.  Ellen, her husband, Greg, and their daughter, Heather Joylin, make their home in West Hartford, CT