Susan McCullough, Executive Director
SUSAN McCULLOUGH earned her bachelor’s degree in Horn Performance from Emporia State University. She was featured as Principal Horn and soloist with the Air Force Academy Band from 1975-1978, and served 22 years with the Colorado Springs Symphony Orchestra as 3rd and Principal Horn. Susan is a founding member of The Denver Brass and has been a featured soloist and clinician throughout the US and around the world. Susan has been featured at many International Horn Symposiums since 2006 and at South African National Symposiums 2007 to the present. She has served on the Advisory Council of the International Horn Society from 2007 to 2023. Susan can be heard on many CD recordings including her 2008 release, “It’s All Relative” with her son, Jesse McCormick, 2nd Horn in The Cleveland Orchestra. She performs with many of Colorado’s top ensembles including the Colorado Symphony, the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, and the Colorado Ballet. Susan plays many of the touring Broadway Shows that come to Denver and is on faculty at the Kendall Betts Horn Camp and the Rafael Mendez Brass Institute. Previously, Susan was Instructor of Horn at the Lamont School of Music for 22 years, where she proudly hosted the 40th International Horn Symposium in 2008.
Charlotte Ulmer, Marketing Staff
Charlotte Ulmer is the Professor of Horn at Purdue University – Fort Wayne and Second Horn in the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic and Central Ohio Symphony. She is the former principal horn on the North American tour of Disney’s Frozen.
Charlotte received her Master of Music from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and her Bachelor of Music from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Additionally, she studied abroad in Vienna, where she worked with Wolfgang Vladar, Third Horn of the Vienna Philharmonic. She also completed a graduate certificate in Arts Marketing and Management through the University of Denver.
In addition to Frozen, Charlotte toured with Les Misérables as a substitute Second Horn and regularly appears with the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, West Virginia Symphony, and is a former associate member of the Civic Orchestra in Chicago.
Charlotte’s primary teachers include Haley Hoops, Randy Gardner, Tom Sherwood, Jeff Nelsen, and Rick Seraphinoff.
Notable accomplishments in her career include founding the 501(c)3 nonprofit, Artist Unleashed, for which she produced its inaugural event; she won an Emmy® for her role as Associate Producer in addition to her team’s seven wins for their work on a multi-genre concert and fundraiser.
She was a Jacobs Scholar and Indiana University Founders Scholar for the entirety of her undergraduate career. She won the state title of outstanding chamber music group from the Ohio Music Teachers Association in 2016 and is a Brand Endorser for Robinson’s Remedies.
As an artist administrator, she has worked for the Classical Tahoe music festival and is a part of the artistic team for Opera Theatre St. Louis. She served as the Business Development Manager for a regional orchestra in Cincinnati, where she wrote and received over $80,000 in grants for the orchestra.
