Sue Fink

Career

She is the founder and conductor of the Angel City Chorale as well as a songwriter and voice teacher. She graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she studied conducting with Roger Wagner.

Sue toured internationally as a member of the Roger Wagner Chorale, and went on to establish the Oriana Renaissance Ensemble serving as conductor. In 1976, Sue Fink founded the Los Angeles Women's Community Chorus (LAWCC), serving as conductor and organizer for 10 years. Fink teamed up with a composer named Lynn Wilson and together, they created arrangements for the Los Angeles Women's Community Chorus that included such women's music as arrangements by Holly Near and the Berkeley Women's Music Collective. The chorus continued under the direction of Sue Fink for ten years before she left to continue with her music career.

In addition to maintaining a private voice studio in Los Angeles, she composes and arranges for choral organizations and writes for television and movie soundtracks, as well as compositions and arrangements for many choral organizations.

Musical works

As a singer-songwriter, Sue Fink has released two critically acclaimed albums, one of which received an award of excellence from the National Association of Independent Record Distributors (NAIRD). In addition, several songs that Sue wrote with songwriting partner, Paul Nelson, have been featured on television and in films including the Academy Award-winning film "The Usual Suspects," Stephen King's "Apt Pupil," as well as a number of movies for HBO, Showtime, CBS, and ABC("NYPD BLUE'" "All My Children," "Two Against Time," "The Young and the Restless").