Kayla Wilfong, Music Librarian

Kayla Wilfong is an internationally award-winning voice teacher, lyric coloratura soprano, conductor, actress, and alum of the San Francisco Girls Chorus. Kayla has appeared as a soloist in professional recordings, operas, symphonies, plays, and on stages throughout the Bay Area and abroad including the War Memorial Opera House and Davies Symphony Hall. Recent engagements include performing as the featured soprano soloist in Carmel, CA in Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem under maestro Leroy Kromm, being featured as the soprano soloist on a set of professional recordings of new compositions by composer Lisa Scola-Prosek which air regularly on classical music radio stations throughout the U.S., singing as the featured soprano soloist in the San Jose Symphonic Choir’s recorded production of Gabriel Faure’s Requiem with the Cal Arte Ensemble, and being featured in a recent edition of the Royal Academy of Music-affiliated magazine Vantage Music for performing the role of “Annina” in the world’s first virtual & international production of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La Traviata. Kayla has also appeared as a soloist with members of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the Nova Vista Symphony, the Cambrian Symphony, The Prospect Theater Project, the Cal Arte Ensemble, and in roles varying from “Susanna” in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, to “Sophie” in Terrence McNeilley’s Masterclass.  Kayla conducts and teaches with both the San Francisco Girls Chorus and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Pre-College program, and her private voice students consistently place within the top 3 slots of both national and international vocal competitions, also regularly performing child solo and chorus roles with opera and theater companies. Kayla holds a “Best Teacher Award” from the 8th Hong Kong International Youth Performing Arts Festival, and has been recognized twice by the American Protege International Vocal Competition at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 2021 and 2023 for “extraordinary dedication and achievement in the field of teaching music and presenting students to perform at Carnegie Hall”. Kayla majored in Voice Performance at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.