Corey Worley is an ardent defender of contemporary music. He has performed with the International Contemporary Ensemble, Ensemble Proton, The Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, and members of Ensemble Intercontemporain. Concertizing throughout North American and Europe, he has made appearances at the Ojai Music Festival, the Kennedy Center, Bayerischer Rundfunk Radio Klassik, The Donaueschingen Festival, The Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Musique de Chambre à Giverny, and the Bang on a Can Marathon. 

Corey has attended many prestigious academies including the Lucerne Festival Academy, National Arts Center Young Artist Program,  The Talis Academy, SoundSCAPE, and Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau. As an orchestral musician, Corey frequently appears with the Luxembourg Philharmonic, the Paris Chamber Orchestra, and the Orchestre des Lauréats du Conservatoire. 

Pushing musical boundaries, Corey also specializes in gestural music and other forms of interdisciplinary performance. In the realm of gestural performance, recent concerts include performances at the Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Germany), Zuoz (Switzerland), Nuremberg (Germany), and Paris (France).

He started his musical education under the tutelage of Elias Goldstein. Corey is a double-degree graduate of the Oberlin College and Conservatory, where he studied viola with Peter Slowik while earning a degree in psychology. Later, he was accepted into the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP) in the class of Pierre-Henri Xuereb and Louis Fima along with the chamber music class of Jean Sulem, earning his Master's degree with "High Distinctions". Violists such as Garth Knox, Laurent Verney, John S