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The Chorale has made numerous convention appearances and has toured the
United States, Canada and Europe. Recent domestic tours have included
visits to New York, Boston and New Orleans. In May of 2001, the
ensemble embarked upon a two-week European tour that included
performances in Munich, Salzburg, Vienna and Prague. In December of
2002, the Collegiate Chorale returned to Europe, where in addition to
performances in Italy and France, members sang High Mass at the
Cathedral of the Principality of Monaco on the first Sunday after
Christmas. Members on the 2006 tour performed in Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Virginia, and North Carolina.
In his third year at BGSU, Timothy Cloeter conducts the Collegiate Chorale and the Men’s Chorus, and teaches 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.