Heather Potter
Choristers Guild Institute 2024 Helen Kemp Lecturer

Heather Williams Potter has a long career of directing children’s choirs, teaching children to sing, and equipping teachers and directors in their work with young singers. Until 2025, she served as Director of Traditional Music for Covenant Presbyterian Church in Charlotte North Carolina, overseeing traditional worship music planning, preparing Youth Singers and conducting two children’s choirs. Previously, Dr. Potter served as an Associate Conductor and then Artistic Director of the Charlotte Children’s Choir of Community School of the Arts. Dr. Potter has trained singers in the middle school, high school, and college classroom, and she taught music education methods courses for undergraduates. As a clinician, Dr. Potter has conducted treble ensembles for music conferences, festivals, and honor choirs and provided training for children’s choir directors and volunteers for various churches and organizations. She served on the Choristers Guild Institute faculty for ten years and has published articles relating to training young voices and developing choral programs in churches. Volume Two of her curriculum A Year of Beautiful Singing was released by Choristers Guild in 2025.

Dr. Potter holds degrees in music education and choral conducting from Furman University, Arizona State University, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Additionally, she has completed Level III in the Choral Music Experience certification course and holds Choristers Guild Children’s Choir Leadership certification.

Dr. Potter is a Past-President of the Choristers Guild National Board and served on the development team and advisory board for the Choristers Guild Institute. She served ACDA as the North Carolina and the Southern Division R&S Chair for Children and Youth Community Choirs. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband, Kenney, and their children Syl and Calvin.