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DEPARTMENT OF CHORAL ACTIVITIES
FACULTY
Alan Harler is a strong advocate for new American music. He was founder and director of the Contemporary Vocal Ensemble of Indiana. During his tenure with Mendelssohn Club, he has commissioned and premiered thirty-three new compositions, including such major works as Robert Moran's Requiem: Chant du Cygne (1990), Charles Fussell's Specimen Days (1992), Robert Stern's Returning the Song (1994), Cynthia Folio’s Touch the Angel’s Hand (1994), Jan Krzywicki’s Lute Music (1995), James Primosch’s Fire Memory/River Memory (1998), Charles Fussell’s High Bridge (2003), and Andrea Clearfield’s The Golem Psalms (2006). He conducted Mendelssohn Club in a critically acclaimed recording of the Moran Requiem for Argo/London Records in 1994. With the Temple University Concert Choir, he has presented many Philadelphia premieres, including Moran’s Hagoromo, Alfred Schnittke’s Requiem, and Arvo Pärt’s Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Secundum Joannem. Maestro Harler has prepared choruses for many of the country’s leading conductor’s, including Riccardo Muti, Klaus Tennstedt, Charles Dutoit, Zubin Mehta, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Lorin Maazel, David Robertson, and Wolfgang Sawallisch. ALAN HARLER
JEFFREY CORNELIUS
ROLLO DILWORTH
Paul S. Jones
Choral FacultyCornelius, Jeffrey Harler, Alan Jones, Paul S. Yamron, Janet
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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. 
Dr. Rollo Dilworth was recently appointed as Associate Professor of Choral Music Education at Temple University's Boyer College of Music and Dance in Philadelphia, PA. Prior to his appointment at Temple, Dilworth served as Director of Choral Activities and Music Education at North Park University in Chicago, IL for 13 years. From 1991-1995, he taught choral and general music at the middle school level in his hometown of St. Louis, MO. Dr. Dilworth holds degrees from Case Western Reserve University, University of Missouri- St. Louis, and Northwestern University. Dilworth has written and/or arranged over 150 published choral works, many of which are specifically crafted to enhance the vocal development and musicianship of young choral singers. His choral compositions are a part of the Henry Leck Creating Artistry Choral Series with Hal Leonard Corporation and Colla Voce Music Company. He has also published pieces with Santa Barbara Music Publishing Company as part of the Mary Alice Stollak Choral Series. Dilworth is a contributing author for the Essential Elements for Choir and the Experiencing Choral Music textbook series, both published by the Hal Leonard Corporation/Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Publications, and for Music Express! Teachers Magazine. He authored a book of choral warm-ups for elementary and secondary choral ensembles entitled Choir Builders: Fundamental Vocal Techniques for General and Classroom Use. He frequently serves as a guest conductor and/or clinician for honors, festival and all-state choirs throughout the United States and abroad. Dilworth is an active member of the Music Educators National Conference (MENC), the National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM), the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), and Chorus America. He is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), and currently serves on the Pennsylvania ACDA State board as Director of Student and Youth Activities. In 2007, he co-conducted the ACDA National Multicultural Honor Choir in Miami, FL. In 2011, he will serve as conductor for the ACDA National Middle Level Honor Choir in Chicago, IL.
Paul S. Jones, D.M. is Choral Artist-in-Residence (2009-2010) for the Boyer College of Music and Dance. Since 1998, he has been Organist and Music Director at historic Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, where he oversees six choirs, two orchestras, a music education program, and the Tenth Concert Series. He is also a pianist, composer/arranger, teacher, and author. Born in New Brunswick, Canada his earliest musical training began at the age of five in the Toronto Conservatory program. He holds the Doctor of Music degree in choral conducting and an M.M. in piano from Indiana University where he was a doctoral fellow, as well as undergraduate degrees in piano, composition, and theology. Dr. Jones performs frequently with David, Kim, violin; Anne Martindale Williams, cello; and Samuel Hsu, duo piano; and he has accompanied Metropolitan Opera singers Jerome Hines, Sharon Sweet, Stuart Neill, and Todd Thomas. He has composed or arranged more than 200 sacred works, including 50 hymn tunes, and is author of Singing & Making Music: Issues in Church Music Today (P&R, 2006). His teachers included Robert Porco, Thomas Dunn and Jan Harrington (conducting); Menahem Pressler, Edward Auer, Martin Canin and Samuel Hsu (piano); Josef Gingold (chamber music); Robert Carwithen and Roy Brunner (organ); and Alan Bennett (voice).