Nansi Carroll studied voice at the Royal Academy of Music in London, England, 
the Tanglewood Music Center, and Yale School of Music, where she received her 
Doctorate in 1982. Her principal teachers were Marjorie Thomas and Phyllis Curtin. 
Ms. Carroll has been active over the years as a recitalist. She has appeared as a soloist 
with the New Jersey Symphony under the baton of Hugh Wolff, with the Annapolis
Symphony, the Peabody Trio, the Willis Bodine Chorale, and most recently with the
Gainesville Civic Chorus. Ms. Carroll is also active as a composer with a current 
catalog of over three hundred works. She is published by GIA, and her music also 
appears in the volume Sacred Music in a Time of Social Change. Among other collabora-
tions, in 2000 she worked with actor Andre DeShields in “A long Way from Home,” 
a performance piece for piano trio and spoken voice. “A Long Way from Home” 
was given its premiere performance at New York University with Mr.DeShields 
and the Peabody Trio. Ms. Carroll is a former faculty member of StetsonUniversity, 
the University of Florida, and the Walden School. She is currently Artistic Co-Director 
of the Jubilus Festival, and has served for over twenty years as Director of Music at 
St. Augustine Church and Catholic Student Center in Gainesville, FL.