Dr. William Plummer

Dr. William Plummer is the Choir Master for Our Lady Queen of Angels.   He is is Director of Choral Activities at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he conducts the UL Chorale and Chamber Singers. He also teaches advanced choral conducting, choral literature, and graduate level courses for the choral conducting degree. 

Dr. Plummer received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Piano from Berea College, the Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Louisville, and earned his Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting from Louisiana State University. His primary conducting teachers include Dr. Kenneth Fulton, Dr. Kent Hatteberg, and Dr. Stephen Bolster. Additional study was taken with Péter Erdei at the Kodály Institute in Kecskemét, Hungary.

Dr. Plummer is the founder and artistic director of the Baton Rouge Early Vocal Ensemble (B.R.E.V.E.), an ensemble dedicated to the performance of lesser-known masterpieces of the Renaissance and Baroque eras. The Baton Rouge Early Vocal Ensemble's recent programs have included cantatas by Johann Kuhnau and J.C. Bach, as well as works by Jan Dismas Zelenka, Ludwig Bach, Robert Ramsey, Ludwig Senfl, and John Browne.  B.R.E.V.E. gives free admission performances of early music in venues across South Louisiana.