Music Department Faculty
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Professor
wheatley@iup.edu
724-357-7918
By Appointment
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ELED 211; Music for Elementary Grades
MUSC 333; Elementary Methods
LBST 499; Women Who Compose
Susan Wheatley (Ph.D., The University of Michigan)
is Professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and
general/choral music specialist. Dr. Wheatley has served
as workshop facilitator and consultant to music educators
throughout the United States and Europe. She has served
as guest conductor in Pennsylvania for several PMEA
Songfests and County Choruses on the elementary and
secondary level and was the founding director of the
Indiana (PA) Arts Council Children's Chorus from 1993-1997.
Dr. Wheatley has an active interest in the research
on women and music. Highlighting this research, she
serves as co-director of IUP's prestigious Festival
of Women Composers. She has appeared frequently as pianist and conductor
during the Festival series and has received grants from
the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts, and Meet-the-Composers, Inc., to
sponsor performances and commissions of the works of
women composers. In addition, she was interviewed about
women and music in the broadcast, Highlights of the
Fifth Festival of Women Composers, which was aired
on several PBS networks. As a specialist in the history
and process of Orff-Schulwerk, Dr. Wheatley received
a Fulbright-Hays award to conduct research in Salzburg,
Austria, at the University 'Mozarteum' on the life and
works of composer and Schulwerk educator Gunild
Keetman.
Dr. Wheatley's published articles have appeared in the
International Association for Women in Music Journal,
the Orff Echo, the Opera For Youth Journal,
The National Association of Laboratory Schools,
and the Pennsylvania Music Educators News. She
is a member of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association,
the Music Educators National Conference, the College
Music Society, and serves as board member for the International
Association for Women in Music.
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