| Lucinda J. Thayer Professor & Director of Choral Activities |
 Lucinda
J. Thayer is currently Professor of
Music and Director of Choral Activities at the University of
Wisconsin-Stevens Point. In the fall of 2000 she was named Music
Director of the Wausau Lyric Choir. This adult community choir is
dedicated to excellence in the performance of sacred choral literature.
In June, 2001 the WLC traveled to Italy to give concerts in Rome and at
the International Choral Festival in Genoa. The
choir was chosen to perform for the 2004 North Central ACDA convention
in Sioux Falls, SD and made a concert tour to England and Wales in July,
2004.Thayer came to Wisconsin from Massachusetts, where she was Director of Choral Music at Smith College. Prior to teaching at Smith, she conducted and taught at Mary Baldwin College, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Central Florida. She served as conductor of the Springfield (MA) Symphony Chorus from 1989 until 1996 and has the distinction of being the first woman ever to hold that position in the sixty-three years' history of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra. In the fall of 1994, she served as Visiting Conductor of the New Haven (CT) Chorale and she was guest conductor of the Back Bay Chorale in Boston, MA in the fall of 1995. Ms. Thayer's most recent guest conducting included concerts with the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra in December, 2001. Her choirs from Smith College presented concert tours in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Italy and Austria. She has directed choruses for the former Florida Symphony Orchestra and the Orlando Opera Company. She has served as guest conductor of the Springfield Symphony and she conducted both the orchestra and chorus twice during the 1994-95 season. A native of Massachusetts, she completed her undergraduate degree
in voice and piano at the University of Massachusetts and did her
graduate work at Indiana University School of Music. She has studied
with the late Julius Herford and Margaret Hillis, conductor emeritus
of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus. She received scholarships
to continue her studies at the Aspen Music Festival with John
Nelson, Helmuth Rilling and others. In 1994, she was
selected to study Mendelssohn's Elijah with the late Robert
Shaw, conductor emeritus of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
Want to come for a campus visit? Click below to set up a free "get to know you" lesson. Other questions-feel free to call me at (715) 346-2808 or e-mail me: lthayer@uwsp.edu Revised 07/10/2008 17:20
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