Choral Faculty
Tim Cloeter
M.M. Westminster Choir College
Instructor (choral activities)
Tim CloeterConducts the Men’s Chorus and the A Cappella Choir, and teaches conducting and a graduate choral seminar; holds a bachelor’s in education with majors in vocal music and math from Concordia University in Nebraska, and a master’s in choral conducting from Westminster Choir College; completing a doctorate in choral conducting from the University of Arizona; conducting teachers include Joseph Flummerfelt, Bruce Chamberlain and Helmuth Rilling; one of only five in the nation chosen by audition to conduct movements of Robert Levin’s new completion of Mozart’s Mass in C Minor at a 2005 Carnegie Hall master class with Helmuth Rilling and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s; recorded choral works by Richard Hillert with the Kapelle of Concordia University in Chicago for release by the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians in 2003; solo singing credits range from Schütz’s Musikalischen Exequien (Evangelist) to Haydn’s Creation and from Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors (Kaspar) to the national anthem at New York Mets games; as a professional chorister, has sung in the Aspen Chamber Choir (Aspen Music Festival), the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, the Bachakademie Stuttgart and the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus; as a member of the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus and the Bachakademie, he performed on both the U.S. and European premieres of Penderecki’s Credo, and was one of five Americans hired to perform the piece on a tour of Poland, Russia and Germany; chorister with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra under Robert Shaw, Kurt Masur, Helmuth Rilling and Ricardo Muti; multiple seasons in the opera chorus at the Festival de Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, and the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C.; has served at Martin Luther High School in New York, Carroll University, Concordia University, the University of Arizona and Schenectady County Community College.
Dr. Mark Munson
D.M.A., Cincinati College-Conservatory of Music
Associate Professor (choral activities)
Dr. Mark Munson Holds bachelor’s degree in music education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, master’s degree in choral music education from the University of Michigan and doctorate in choral conducting from the University of Cincinnati; during 2005–06 academic year was visiting professor of music at Sweden’s Musikhögskolan i Malmö (Malmö Academy of Music) of Lunds universitet, choral music specialist at Fröknegårdskolan of Kristianstad, and visiting conductor of Christianstads Motettkör; taught eight years of high school choral music in Pennsylvania and Ohio; has conducted the Collegiate Chorale, University Choral Society, A Cappella Choir, and University Women’s Chorus; currently conducts the University Choral Society; teaches choral methods, repertoire and conducting at the undergraduate level, as well as choral literature and conducting at the graduate level; supervises student teachers and serves on thesis committees for students pursuing master’s degrees; president of the Ohio Choral Directors Association; active as a guest conductor, adjudicator and clinician; has presented sessions at national, divisional, and state conventions for the American Choral Directors Association and for the Music Educators National Conference; has conducted many festival choruses inside and outside of Ohio; founder and past director of the Bowling Green Children’s Chorus and of the Ohio Ambassadors Chorus, an ensemble of high school singers that tours Europe biannually; articles published in ACDA’s Choral Journal and Student Times, MENC’s Teaching Music and Journal of Music Teacher Education, OMEA’s TRIAD and Worship Arts, a journal for church musicians.
Dr. Sandra Frey Stegman
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Assistant Professor (choral education)
Dr. Sandra Frey Stegman Graduate of the University of Michigan and former public school teacher; active in music education and choral studies; has conducted various university ensembles and performed as music director and conductor of the Waterloo (Iowa) Metropolitan Chorale; conducts A Cappella Choir and University Women’s Chorus; served as music educator and consultant to schools and communities in North Queensland, Australia; toured abroad as an assistant director with the Ohio Honors Chorale; directed the Toledo Opera Children’s Chorus and conducted the All-State Intermediate Choir in Interlochen, Mich.; founded the Junior Choral Society and Cantare which performed under her direction at state and division music conferences (ACDA and MENC); active as a clinician, consultant, and guest conductor, appeared as conductor of the 2001 OMEA District 1 Middle School/Junior High Honors Festival and 1998 American Choral Directors Association Central Division Junior High Honor Chorus; scholarship and research: presentations at the 2005 International Conference on Arts and Humanities, the 2000 MENC National Convention and the 1998 College Music Society Annual Conference, articles in the Choral Journal and the Journal of Music Teacher Education and author of the publication titled Student Teaching in the Choral Classroom.