Our Executive Director

A native of western Pennsylvania, William Mateer was a music education major at the College of Wooster and holds masters degrees in music from West Virginia University and in special education from George Peabody College for Teachers at Vanderbilt University. He has also studied at the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute, the Amherst Early Music Festival and the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival Baroque Workshop.

Mr. Mateer has taught in both the public schools and at the college level and has also worked as a music therapist, which led to a professional career in the mental health field. Mr. Mateer retired in 2009 as executive director of the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Wayne and Holmes Counties in Ohio. In prior years Mr. Mateer served as director of the Fall Festival Chorus in Kent, Ohio; the Hazard College/Community Chorus in Hazard, Kentucky; both the Ohio and Indiana MCC Men’s Chorale; the Cantate Singers in Wooster, Ohio, and most recently the Goshen Community Chorale. He has also provided leadership for music programs at Laurelville Mennonite Church Center. In addition to his choral work, Mr. Mateer has a special interest in chamber music and was a founding member of the Baroque ensemble “Musica Felice,” with whom he plays recorder.

He currently plays string bass in the Maple City Community Orchestra.