Susan Medley, Assistant Conductor of both the Mendelssohn Choir and the Junior Mendelssohn Choir, is also Director of Choral Activities and Associate Professor of Music at Washington & Jefferson College. Prior to coming to W&J she served as Associate Director of Education at Carnegie Hall in New York City and founding conductor/clinician of the Carnegie Hall High School Choral Festivals. She also held the position of Music Director of The Central City Chorus, a 60-voice community chorus that performed three annual concerts in midtown Manhattan.

 

Medley’s choral work has taken her to Malaysia, where she served as guest conductor of the 2006 Kuala Lumpur Young Singers Choral Festival and led workshops for choirs and conductors throughout the country. In December 2006 the W&J Camerata Singers appeared by invitation at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in New York City.

 

Medley holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting with a cognate in music theory from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She holds an M.M. in Accompanying from the University of Akron and a B.M. in Music Education summa cum laude from Kent State University, where she studied piano with Naumburg Award-winning pianist Margaret Baxtresser.

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