In his fourth year at BGSU, Timothy Cloeter conducts the Collegiate Chorale and the Men's Chorus, and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in conducting and choral literature. Previously, he served as Director of Choral Activities at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisc., where he conducted choirs and taught courses in choral conducting, choral teaching methods, diction, and aural skills. In 2011 his Men's Chorus was chosen from a field of 150 applicants to perform at the MENC North Central Division Conference, and in 2005 Mr. Cloeter was chosen as one of only five conductors in the nation to conduct movements of Robert Levin's new completion of Mozart's Mass in C Minor at a Carnegie Hall masterclass with Helmuth Rilling and the Orchestra of St. Luke's.

Complementing his talents as conductor and teacher is his considerable experience as a singer. As a professional chorister, Mr. Cloeter has sung in the Aspen Chamber Choir, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, the Bachakademie Stuttgart, and the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus. Mr. Cloeter also performed as a chorister with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra under Robert Shaw, Kurt Masur, Helmuth Rilling, and Ricardo Muti, and he spent multiple seasons in the opera chorus at the Spoleto Festivals in both Spoleto, Italy, and Charleston, South Carolina.

Mr. Cloeter holds a B.S. in Ed. with vocal music and math majors from Concordia College in Seward, Nebraska, a M.M degree in choral conducting from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, and he is finishing a D.M.A. in choral conducting at the University of Arizona in Tucson. His principal conducting teachers have been Joseph Flummerfelt, Bruce Chamberlain, and Helmuth Rilling.