A Memphis, Tennessee native, Joy has made her home in the Tampa Bay area since 1981 with a versatile career as broadcast producer and manager, composer/lyricist and recording artist, heritage tour leader, and instructor/lecturer. Following Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri with BA and BFA degrees magna cum laude and cum laude in Broadcast Communications and Music, she joined Tampa Bay's WPLP/News-Talk Radio, rising within a year-and-a-half from Traffic Director to Executive Producer to Operations Manager. Appearing simultaneously as an opening and featured performer while maintaining a radio career with stations WUSA-FM, WDAE-AM, and WXCR-FM, she gradually shifted her focus entirely to performance, composition, and recording.

In congregation, concert hall, classroom, and in ten published recordings, Joy melds a repertoire of thousands of compositions with musical history, uplifting stories, insightful memories and sing-along ... touching the mind and heart and truly bringing joy. In the words of Tarpon Springs Montessori Academy Director Gail Gilmore, her programs are an "opportunity to explore culture beyond the limit of four walls." Recordings include Seasons of Joy (Judaic holiday music and narration), Making a Joyful Noise and New State of Mind, (compilations of original music), The Heart of Ancient Promise (Yiddish and Hebrew original, folk, and stage songs), Soul Stream (original music for meditation), How Good and How Pleasant (Sabbath prayers, hymns, and sacred songs), Passages (original songs celebrating life journeys), Favorite Melody, Vols. I and 2 (selections from the popular American Song Book), A Steadfast Bridge Commemorative CD (12 original songs in production for a new double-CD of original material), Holiday Circle of Love (original holiday/seasonal songs). Her music has been included in a 2006 Unity compilation entitled New Thought Holiday Music.

With her husband Mark, Joy operates Tune-of-the-Century Music® and Katzen and Guthrie Associates, Inc. Broadcast and Studio Design and Integration and remote and studio concert recording services for a roster of musicians and organizations of all genres. In 1996, Joy created Of Musical Note, a continuing program for students that features professional musicians who explain their instruments and craft and involve children in music. In August 1996 and again in August 1999, she received appointments to the Florida Artist Residency Directory, funded by the State Division of Cultural Affairs. [Artist Residencies place practicing, professional artists in Florida Schools and Community Colleges to teach all aspects of their art form]. In both 1997 and 2003, Joy was awarded  Arts Resource Fund Performance Arts Grants from the Pinellas County Arts Council for the creation of new recordings of original music.

Positions have included Music Director at Perry Mansfield Performing Arts Camp in Steamboat Springs, Colorado; Music Director for Unity Center For Today in North Tampa for 9 years; Music Director for Temple B'nai Israel (reform) in Clearwater; Cantorial Soloist for the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation of Tampa (conservative), Temple Shir Shalom in Gainesville (reform), Congregation B'nai Emunah in Tarpon Springs (reform), Congregation Aliyah in Clearwater (conservative), Temple B'nai Israel in Clearwater (reform), Temple Beth El in Bradenton (reform), Congregation Shir Shalom in Sarasota (reform), and guest cantorial soloist for numerous other congregations, Unity of Palm Harbor's music team 2006 to present, and guest music presenter, worship leader, speaker, concert artist, and workshop leader at numerous Unity and other metaphysical congregations. Joy has given thousands of performances in virtually every kind of venue. In addition to her concert, teaching, and public speaking schedule, she is an active studio artist.

Since spring 2009, Joy has starred as Edna Ferber in the one-woman dramatization entitled … Edna Ferber … Magic or Madness? by St. Petersburg playwright Jan Taylor. The production has been received with accolades on nine Central Florida Eckerd College OLLI campuses.

Since 2000, in arrangement with Regent China Tours, Joy has created and served as Scholar-In-Residence for six Jewish heritage tours throughout China and has created heritage tours for Alaska, Australia, and New Zealand. She teaches courses for the University of South Florida (Tampa) Osher Institute, Eckerd College Osher Institute (St. Petersburg), Eckerd College Elderhostel, Senior Summer School of Miami, Congregation Kol Ami (Tampa) Torah University, and Unity Center For Today (Tampa) Learning Series. Courses have included A History of the American Musical Theatre; Sound Mind and Body: Healing Through Music; America's Historical Musical Legacy; Asia's Ancient Faiths; Philosophies and Religions of China; Muslim, Jewish, and Christian Presence on China's Silk Road; The Woman in Chinese Tradition; The Heart and History of Jewish Music; Women in Song, America’s Hit Parade, Tin Pan Alley to Hollywood … and many many others.

Joy is also a contributing writer to the 2007 edition of the Encylopedia Judaica. Her photographs of China have appeared in newspapers, magazines, journals, and internet sites from around the world in connection with articles and writings of the Jewish communities of China, past and present. Memberships include Songwriters Guild of America, Dramatists Guild, Inc., Women Cantors Network, Positive Music Association, Harmonizing with Humanity, Empower, GoGirls Music, and Hadassah among many others.

Her extensive website (http://www.joyfulnoise.net) is her own creation and she loves being in touch with visitors to her site and her performances. She can be reached for booking or information at: Tune-of-the-Century Music®  •  joyfulnoise@earthlink.net • 727-785-4568  (Tampa Area) •  800-354-1302