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Music Faculty > JEFFREY CORNELIUS

 

JEFFREY CORNELIUS
Professor of Choral Music,
phone: 215-204-8304
e-mail: jeffrey.cornelius@temple.edu

 

 

Dr. Jeffrey Cornelius has served as a member of Temple University’s music faculty since 1972. As Professor of Choral Music, he teaches in the Choral Department and conducts the University Singers. Dr. Cornelius served as Dean of Temple’s Boyer College of Music from 1993 to 2001. He holds degrees from King College, Westminster Choir College, and Temple University, where he was a student of Robert Page. Active as a guest conductor, adjudicator, clinician, and lecturer, he is past president of the ACDA of Pennsylvania. Guest conducting has included all-state, regional, district, and other festival choruses, in addition to preparing Temple’s choirs for performance with The Philadelphia Orchestra. He has authored numerous articles and papers; has served on accreditation review teams for colleges and universities around the nation; and has served as board- or panel-member of many cultural organizations, including The Musical Fund Society, the New Jersey Council on the Arts, the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, and The Presser Foundation.