Our longtime Artistic Director Gerald Sousa has retired, and a search for our new director is underway. In this interim season, our Fall and Spring concerts will be led by guest conductors Dr. Carolann Buff and Dr. Betsy Burleigh, respectively, both of the IU Jacobs School of Music Choral Conducting faculty.

Carolann Buff is assistant professor of music in choral conducting at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she specializes in choral musicology.

Buff is responsible for courses in choral literature as well as advising doctoral thesis projects and examinations at both the master’s degree and doctoral level. She also is closely engaged with the Historical Performance Institute at IU as a guest lecturer and conductor for the early music ensemble Concentus.

Buff is a scholar, teacher, and musician regarded for both her research on late medieval motets and expertise in historical performance. Her principal research interests include 14th- and early 15th-century musical style, but she is equally at home in the study of sacred music repertoires from all eras.

Betsy Burleigh is the Thomas R. Kasdorf Professor of Choral Conducting at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she was chair of the Choral Conducting Department from 2013 to 2024.

Equally at home in the professional world and in academia, Burleigh served as music director of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh for 10 years. She led the Mendelssohn in performances of Brahms’ Requiem, Bach’s B-Minor Mass, Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil, and Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor, and prepared the choir for numerous performances with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) and Manfred Honeck.