Carol Worthey, award-winning composer, painter and writer has established an international reputation as a gifted and inventive choral composer and arranger. Her secular and sacred choral works have been performed at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (Los Angeles Music Center) and in Paris at a concert in the Bois des Vincennes sponsored by the United Nations.  Her choral arrangements for Grammy-nominated artist David Arkenstone have been performed in Canada and heard on several of Arkenstone's CDs.  In 2006 renowned a cappella choir "Cappella Gloriana" from San Diego world-premiered her meditative "Gloria in Excelsis Deo II" under the direction of Stephen Sturk. Worthey's mentors include Darius Milhaud, John Harbison, Vincent Persichetti, Elliot Carter, Walter Piston, Jack Beeson and Otto Luening.  Family friend Leonard Bernstein inspired Carol to begin composing as a child. Carol won FIrst Prize in Composition at Columbia University and graduated with honors from the Contemporary Composing and Arranging Program at Grove School of Music. Her instrumental and vocal works have been premiered at Carnegie Hall, St. Martin-in-The-Fields, Aspen Music Festival, China Conservatory of Music in Beijing, and Florence Italy, with performances in France, Germany, Italy, England, China, Japan, Mexico and throughout the United States.  In 2009-2010 she was featured on "Classical Music Discoveries" in a podcast downloaded by over ten million listeners in the first three months.  At the Los Angeles Music Center her interactive art/music statue "Angel of Music" was seen and heard by 600,000 visitors - Carol painted the statue and composed the music that played from the statue base.  To listen to Soundbites of Worthey's choral and instrumental music, visit http://www.carolworthey.com/home-soundbite.php