Berk Agar

Viatorum Music is thrilled to welcome flute phenom Dr. Rachel Woolf to the group! Fun plans are in the works. Stay tuned!

Accomplished as a soloist and chamber musician, Rachel Woolf serves as Assistant Professor of Instruction at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Rachel is a member of the Dallas-based symphonic pop rock band The Polyphonic Spree and has toured with them all over North America. She has performed with Swedish-Argentinian indie folk singer José González, Iranian pop music legend Aref, multi-platinum operatic-pop superstars Il Divo, GLEE star and Emmy-winning Darren Criss, and has recorded with Grammy-winning producer John Congleton on experimental rock band Swans’ record, The Glowing Man (2016). Rachel has sought out an array of opportunities to improvise—from looping to freeform to Indian ragas. Notably, she was selected to perform traditional Hindustani North Indian flute during the Dalai Llama’s visit to Ann Arbor, Michigan. Rachel has performed at the National Flute Association Convention five times and has performed with the San Antonio Symphony, Dallas Winds, Abilene Philharmonic, East Texas Symphony Orchestra, among others. Beyond her performances across the United States, she has performed in Sweden, Finland, Russia, Italy, Luxembourg, Germany, France, and England. She received her Bachelor of Music at the University of Michigan, her Master of Music at Bowling Green State University, where she was the flute Teaching Assistant, and completed her Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of North Texas as a Teaching Fellow with a related field in Ethnomusicology. Her teachers include Amy Porter, Dr. Conor Nelson, Terri Sundberg, Dr. James Scott, Marianne Gedigian, and Karen Reynolds