Our Conductor

Dr. Sue T. Klausmeyer, conductor, has led numerous choirs in the Triangle. Since the fall of 2000, she has been with the 130-voice Chapel Hill Community Chorus, and in 2002 she initiated that group’s Summer Chorus, which performs in collaboration with the University United Methodist Church Concert Series. Also, CHCC’s new vocal ensemble, Cantari, performs under her baton. Currently conductor of the UNC Women’s Glee Club, she has also held positions with Binkley Baptist Church and Duke University Chapel’s Choral Vespers and Divinity School choirs. In 2003 she was selected as a conducting fellow by Chorus America, a professional choral organization, for its national convention in Kansas City, where she had the opportunity to conduct the Dale Warland Singers and the Kansas City Chorale. During the 2005 fall semester, she conducted the Chancel Choir at the UniversityUnited Methodist Church in Chapel Hill.

A native of North Carolina, she joined the Duke University Chapel staff following eight years in Columbus, Ohio, as Director of Music at Worthington Presbyterian Church. She also taught at Capital University, directing two choirs and teaching advanced conducting. From 1995 to 1997 she conducted the University of Cincinnati Women’s Chorus and the Cabaret Singers, a vocal jazz ensemble. In the summer of 1996 she served as assistant director for the Cincinnati International Chorale’s tour of Belgium, The Netherlands, and Germany.

Dr. Klausmeyer has performed as a mezzo-soprano with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers in Carnegie Hall and as a soloist at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston and with the Westminster Choir in Spoleto, Italy. She has sung with the Cantari Singers of Columbus and the Vocal Arts Ensemble of Cincinnati. In 1997, she was awarded a grant to study in London the choral manuscripts of Ralph Vaughan Williams in preparation for a performance and lecture on the composer’s Dona Nobis Pacem.

She holds degrees in music from Meredith College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Westminster Choir College in Princeton, and the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music, where she earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts. She has pursued additional studies at the Oberlin College Baroque Performance Institute and at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, where she worked with Dutch baritone Max von Egmond.

Dr. Klausmeyer served as Guest Conductor of Women's Voices Chorus during the spring semester of 2007. During this time she traveled with the group to perform in a Women's Choral Festival in Washington, D.C. and conducted their spring concert. She also conducted a combined concert for WVC and the UNC Women's Glee Club that Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Magnificat" for women, piano, and flute.

In recognition of her service to others and her work conducting the combined UNC Women's Glee Club and Women's Voices Chorus, Dr.
Klausmeyer was featured as a Hometown Hero through the WCHL Village Pride Award in August, 2007.