The Pittsburgh Concert Choral hires music director

By Andrew Druckenbrod

The Pittsburgh Concert Chorale has hired Susan Medley as its
music director.

Dr. Medley is director of choral activities and associate
professor of music at Washington & Jefferson College. She also
leads the Junior Mendelssohn Choir and is the associate conductor
of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh.

Under her direction, the W&J Camerata Singers performed at
Carnegie Hall and in 2010 won the American Prize in Choral
Performance, College/University Division. She will begin her
directorship of the 90-member community choir later this month and
conduct its next concert, a performance of Haydn’s “The Creation”
on Feb. 5 and 6.