HALEY WOODROW

COMPOSER, ARRANGER, EDUCATOR

HALEY WOODROW

COMPOSER, ARRANGER, EDUCATOR

About Me

Haley Woodrow (b. 1984) is a North Texas based composer, educator, trumpeter and pianist. Her music reflects a broad range of influences and genres, and aims to successfully combine styles as a primary objective.

Haley’s Concert Band compositions have received awards and recognition from the American Bandmasters/Sousa/Ostwald composition contest, the National Band Association, the Texas Music Educators Association, and the VLAMO International Composition Contest. Her music has been widely performed throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Haley has received numerous commissions, including from the Florida Bandmasters Association, the Kenosha Community Foundation, and the Young Band March Project.

Haley currently teaches piano at the King’s University and composition at Tarrant County College, where she leads a Chamber Music Composition program and provides practical entrepreneurial training. She holds a Master’s of Music in Composition from Texas Christian University, and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Texas at Arlington. Haley and her husband Jonathan have one daughter, Avery, are avid CrossFitters, and attend Gateway Church of Southlake.

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Latest Blog Articles

Listening to Artistic Music, Score Study and Composition Planning

June 20th, 2022|Comments Off on Listening to Artistic Music, Score Study and Composition Planning

This article has been updated with embedded videos that include three online lessons on Listening, Score Study and Composition Planning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It works well as a supplement for ensembles who either have performed or intended to perform my "In Two Places", but can also be used for other educational purposes as well. Contact me through my contact form if you'd like the accompanying exercises in PDf format you can assign to your students, and please consider doing a Skype or Zoom call with me and your students as a part of the educational effort!

Grade 1 Band

June 19th, 2022|Comments Off on Grade 1 Band

This article will discuss fourteen of the most played works in the Grade 1 Band category of the Texas Prescribed Music List (PML). I am currently hard at work this Spring creating three new band pieces, and have been intensively studying scores to find patterns as to what the most popular pieces have in common, as well as what makes each piece unique. This part 1 article will discuss the patterns I have discovered in comparing the pieces in terms of key, meter, tempo, difficulty level, theme, length, ranges, melody and harmony.

2022 Chamber Music Composition Program at Tarrant County College

April 22nd, 2022|Comments Off on 2022 Chamber Music Composition Program at Tarrant County College

Learning how to fulfill commissions is a necessary skill for composers! In this article I'll cover what I've learned so far on the subject, both through my experience with my compositions, as well as with the thirty compositions our composers have written in the past three years through the Tarrant County College Chamber Music Composition Program.