About Sue

Sue has been performing as a handbell soloist since 1993.  She is a resident of Slippery Rock, PA and rings in the East Main Presbyterian Church bell choir and the Celebration Ringers, a community ensemble.  She is a member of AGEHR (American Guild of English Handbell Ringers) and STEP, an organization of solo and ensemble ringers.

She has been a soloist and clinician at many local, area and national events.  In 2000 she was a featured soloist at the National Director’s Seminar in Dayton, Ohio, and the winner of the Handbell Exploration Solo Competition in Cleveland.  In July 2002 she returned to Cleveland Explo for a Spotlight Concert.  She also worked with a newly formed handbell choir in Kiev, Ukraine while presenting concerts in Kiev and Presov, Slovakia.  Sue was a member of the 2003 Dream Team quartet which performed at the Solo-Ensemble Extravaganza (SEE) in Colorado Springs.  This same quartet premiered Kevin McChesney’s arrangement of Claire de Lune at the 2004 Area X festival in Durango, Colorado.  Sue was the featured soloist at the AGEHR Area II Festival in the Poconos in August, 2006, and presented the keynote concert at the Area III Young Ringers Festival in Richmond, Virginia in November, 2007.  In August, 2008, she performed as a soloist at the International Handbell Symposium held in Orlando, Florida.

Sue currently devotes most of her time to handbells, both as a clinician and solo artist.  Sue is the author of two articles on solo handbell techniques and six of her solo handbell arrangements have been published.  Her repertoire includes a wide variety of sacred, secular and classical music and she delights in presenting the artistry of solo handbells.