Lawrence Doebler

After a two-year search for a new musical leader, the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble (CVE) named Lawrence Doebler the organization's third music director in June 1999. Founded over twenty years ago by Gerald Wolfe under the organizational umbrella Ithaca A Cappella Association, the group was first known as the Ithaca Art Ensemble and then the Gerald Wolfe Singers. With Wolfe's departure in 1991, the 16-voice choir was renamed the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble. G. Roberts Kolb served as its second music director, leading the professional ensemble for four seasons (1993 -1997).

Lawrence Doebler is professor of music at Ithaca College where he serves as director of choral activities. With over twenty years of teaching at the college to his credit, his duties include conducting the Choir, Madrigal Singers, and Choral Union and teaching conducting, choral techniques, and choral literature. Early training in keyboard, strings, voice, and brass led to degrees in conducting from Oberlin Conservatory and Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Doebler began 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 as a clinician and guest conductor. As an editor of "no barline" Renaissance music, Mr. Doebler's editions are published by the Lorenz Company in the Roger Dean catalogue. In addition to his academic appointments, he has served as director of music at churches in Cleveland, St. Louis, Madison, and Ithaca (First Presbyterian Church).