Lawrence Doebler, professor of music serves as Director of Choral Activities at Ithaca

College School of Music. Early training in keyboard, strings, voice and brass led to

degrees in conducting from Oberlin College and Washington University in St.Louis.

Professor Doebler beagan his professional career in 1969 at Smith College. From 1971

through 1978 he taught and conducted at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Mr. Doebler has received awards for research and teaching excellence

from the University of Wisconsin and Ithaca College and has appeared

throughout the eastern and Midwestern United States and Ireland as a

clinician and guest conductor. Mr. Doebler’s editions of Renaissance

music are published by the Lorenz Company in the Roger Dean catalogue.

In addition to his academic appointments, he has served as music director of

the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble and has been the director of music at churches in

Cleveland, St. Louis, Madison, and Ithaca.

The Ithaca College Choir, under the direction of Lawrence Doebler,

is recognized through its annual tour, performances at ACDA and MENC

Conferences and international concerts as one of the finest and most

innovative ensembles at the collegiate level. This spring the Choir will present its 34th

annual tour with professor Doebler.

In fall 2010 the Choir and faculty/student orchestra performed J.S. Bach’s B Minor Mass

on tour at the Strathmore Center, Bethesda MD and in Philadelphia. The Ithaca College

Choral Union and Symphony Orchestra have performed at Lincoln Center in

Avery Fisher Hall under Mr. Doebler’s direction, most recently

presenting Verdi’s Requiem with soprano Sharon Sweet (MM ‘78).

The Ithaca College Choir has toured extensively on the East Coast,

South and Mid-West United States and ten years ago performed in

Ireland. The Choir has presented major concerts at the American Choral

Directors Association in Providence, the Music Educators National

Conference in Baltimore and Providence; Lincoln Center Avery Fisher

Hall and Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, St. Patrick’s

Cathedral, and Cooper Union in New York City; the Brooklyn Academy

of Music in Brooklyn, the Troy Savings Bank in Troy, NY and the Strand

Theatre in York, PA. In addition to the a cappella tradition, the choir has

performed with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, the Ithaca College

Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra and Wind Ensemble.

In each of the last thirty-three years, the Ithaca College Choir has premiered

a work that has been published by Theodore Presser as part of the Ithaca

College Choral Series. The new series co-sponsor is Roger Dean Publishing.

The Ithaca College Choral Composition and Contest was founded by Professor Doebler

in 1979.