Staff
Wendy Looker (she/her) serves the Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship as the Director of Music. She is a member of the Worship Team and oversees our active Music Ministry. Wendy serves as staff partner to the Music Team, the Sound Team, lay-led music ensembles, children’s choirs, and the Artist-in-Residence Program. Wendy conducts the Eno River Singers and leads congregational singing in worship.
Dr. Looker holds graduate degrees in Choral Conducting from Indiana University and the University of Michigan, and a BA in Vocal Performance from SUNY Geneseo. As a conductor, singer, educator and choral artist, she is deeply committed to inclusive programming and champions works by underrepresented and historically marginalized composers. She believes wholeheartedly in the power of choral music to serve as a vehicle for social change and justice.
From 2003–2025, Dr. Looker served as Director of Choral Activities at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, where she directed the choral program and taught courses in conducting, music history, vocal performance and aural skills. Under her direction, the Guilford College Choirs toured Ireland, Prague, Austria, and up and down the East coast. Looker served as the Artistic Director of the Piedmont Chamber Singers of Winston-Salem from 2010-2015. A lyric soprano, Wendy has performed with the Bel Canto Company and has sung with and directed the Greensboro-based early music vocal ensemble, The Kensington Consort.
Wendy has served the North Carolina chapter of the American Choral Directors Association as President and was appointed chair of the first iteration of the NC ACDA Diversity Initiatives Committee. As President, she led the board in examining issues of Accessibility, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in all areas of choral practice and leadership. In 2022, Dr. Looker was awarded the Lara Hoggard Award for Distinguished Service in Choral Music in North Carolina.
Since joining the ERUUF staff, Wendy has become an active member of the Association for UU Music Ministers (AUUMM). A native of Buffalo, New York, Wendy loves the snow. She finds joy in laughter, coffee, new vegan recipes, pilates, podcasts, reading and time with family. She and her husband Jeremy live in Greensboro with their daughters Madeleine and Mina, three cats, and a dog.
