Our Directors

Director of Choral Activities

Dr. Sarah Frook Gallo is the new Director of Choral Activities at Lehigh University, where she leads the Lehigh Choral Arts, conducts three curricular choirs, University Choir, Choral Union, and Glee Club, as well as teaching courses in the music department. She is a frequent guest clinician, presenter, and adjudicator, and enjoys working with honor choruses and workshops with choirs of all ages.

Prior to her appointment at Lehigh, she taught at the University of Georgia, where she conducted four curricular ensembles and taught courses in conducting and music education. She has also held teaching positions at William & Mary, Christopher Newport University, and the University of Richmond. Dr. Frook Gallo also served as the Artistic Director of the Virginia Choral Society, a 100-member community choir in Newport News, VA.

Dr. Frook Gallo is a vibrant and versatile conductor, teacher, and singer, and aims to foster intentional musical communities in all aspects of her work. Her research interests include the music of a 19th century Mexico City girls’ school, incorporating Dalcroze Eurhythmics into the conducting classroom, and incorporating vocal pedagogy into the choral rehearsal and teacher training. Her choirs have commissioned and premiered works by Tawnie Olson, Lori Laitman, and Ysaÿe Barnwell.

In her time as a doctoral student at the University of Georgia, she was awarded the prestigious Presidential Fellowship, and was selected for several masterclasses and conducting programs, including the National Collegiate Choral Organization Graduate Fellowship, Baylor International Choral Conducting Masterclass, the Wintergreen Music Academy Conductor’s Summit, and as a conductor in the 2020 ACDA Southern Graduate Conducting Masterclass.

Dr. Frook Gallo earned her DMA in Choral Conducting at the University of Georgia’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music, her MM in Choral Conducting from the Eastman School of Music, and her undergraduate degree from the College of William & Mary with a concentration in piano, voice, and harpsichord. 

Guest Conductor (Fall 2024)

Korean-born Sun Min Lee has been recognized as a skillful musician, inspiring conductor, passionate pedagogue, and dedicated church musician. For the last decade, Ms. Lee was a professor, co-director of the Choral Arts program alongside Steven Sametz, and director of the treble choir Dolce at Lehigh University. Under her direction, the choirs of the Lehigh Choral Arts have performed in Lehigh Valley areas and at Lincoln Center in NYC, as well as in Italy, Spain, Hungary, Austria, and Ireland. Her classes at Lehigh included conducting, musicianship, opera
workshop, and the seminar course, “Women, Creativity, and the Arts”. As an advocate of women in arts, her achievements at Lehigh include commissioning and premiering “I Rise: Women in Song (2016)” by leading American woman composer, Reena Esmail, and presenting a concert entitled “Soaring Together in Harmony: Choral Music by Women Composers”, a unique concert that was a part of the yearlong celebration of 50 years of Women at Lehigh University in 2022.  
Prior to her appointment at Lehigh, Ms. Lee was a faculty member of Hobart and William Smith College and her alma mater, the prestigious Westminster Choir College of Rider University. At Westminster Choir College, Ms. Lee taught conducting classes and directed the Chapel Choir, Schola Cantorum, and Symphonic Choir. She debuted at Carnegie Hall and toured the eastern United States with the Chapel Choir and Schola Cantorum. Ms. Lee collaborated with many renowned conductors, including Stephen Paulus, Kathy Saltzman Romey, Anton Armstrong, and Dale Warland. In 2006, Ms. Lee prepared the Westminster Symphonic Choir to perform Mozart’s Coronation Mass with the New York Phiharmonic, under the direction of Lorin Maazel.
Ms. Lee is in constant demand as a guest conductor, clinician, and lecturer. She has enjoyed working with all-state choirs (Tennessee and Delaware) and county festival choirs (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and Maryland). Last spring, Ms. Lee directed the PMEA Region VI High School Chorus and CJMEA Middle School Honors Choir. She recently was invited to be the choir director of the Csehy Summer School of Music. Ms. Lee has given conducting masterclasses to music educators, church musicians, and aspiring young musicians in the United States, South Korea, Italy, Ireland, and Hungary.
Ms. Lee earned a Bachelor of Church Music degree from the Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary in South Korea, an advanced diploma in music pedagogy from the Zoltán Kodaly Pedagogical Institute of Music in Kecskemét, Hungary, and a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting with distinction from Westminster Choir College. During her residency at Westminster, she was a member of the renowned  Westminster Choir and Westminster Symphonic Choir, performing with world-renowned orchestras under Claudio Abbado, Steven Sloane, Zdenek Macal, Kurt Masur, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Sir Colin Davis, and Joseph
Flummerfelt. She also studied both choral and instrumental conducting at the Eastman School of Music. Ms. Lee is honored to have had such wonderful teachers and mentors - Chang Hoon Park, Péter Erdei, Joseph Flummerfelt, Andrew Megill,William Weinert, and Robin Leaver.
As a lifelong church musician, Ms. Lee is currently the choir director at Praise Presbyterian Church in Somerset, New Jersey, where she leads a 50-member adult choir, youth orchestra, and chime choir. Ms. Lee will serve as a guest conductor for Lehigh Choral Arts this fall.