Meet your Choir Director!

Hayley Hudgens - Head Choir Director

Hayley.Hudgens@risd.org

Hayley Hudgens is extremely excited to be the Director of Choirs at North Junior High for her first year of teaching! Prior to directing at North, she was the student teacher at North and MST Elementary in RISD, and was briefly the permanent substitute teacher for the Highland Park Junior High Choir. She also taught private voice, cello, and piano lessons for several years. Ms. Hudgens graduated from Tomball High School in Tomball, TX where she was an active member in choir, orchestra, and theatre and earned a position in the 2021 Texas All-State Mixed Choir. She then graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, majoring in Music Education. During her time at SMU, Ms. Hudgens sang with the Chamber, Chorale, and Concordia choirs including solo performances with on-campus worship bands. In the summer of 2024, she also had the unique opportunity to perform opera in Siena, Italy while studying music abroad. Ms. Hudgens is a member of the Texas Music Educators Association. In her spare time, Ms. Hudgens loves to cook, travel, watch movies, and spend time with her friends and family. Her goals include maintaining excellence in the choir program and a positive choir community in the classroom.