Middle School Choral Festival with Rollo Dilworth
Columbus Children’s Choir presents Rollo Dilworth as guest clinician for the Annual Children’s Choral Festival on April 10, 2027! The festival is a full day workshop led by Dilworth. This workshop is for middle school singers with treble/unchanged voices. The day culminates in a student concert showcasing what the singers learned.
Event Details
Registration Deadline – March 5th
Choir Workshop (grades 6-8) led by Rollo Dilworth Saturday, April 10, 8am-5pm
Licking Heights Middle School, Pataskala
4pm final concert
Student registration fee – $80 (students attending with a group may have a coupon code to enter at checkout)
Fee includes instruction, sheet music, lunch, snacks, t-shirt, concert admission
About Rollo
Rollo Dilworth is the Elaine Brown Choral Chair, Vocal Arts Department Chair and Professor of Choral Music Education in Temple University’s Center for the Performing and Cinematic Arts in Philadelphia, PA. He has served on the faculty since 2009. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses in choral music education, Dilworth serves as conductor for the Temple University Singing Owls Campus/Community Chorus, as artistic director for Singing City, and as conductor for the School District of Philadelphia High School All-City Chorus.
Over 200 of Dilworth’s choral compositions and arrangements have been published, and many are part of the Henry Leck Creating Artistry Choral Series with the Hal Leonard Corporation. Additional choral publications can be found in the catalogs of Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Colla Voce, Walton Music and EC Schirmer. He has conducted more than 70 all-state choirs at the elementary, middle and high school levels, and remains an active clinician and frequent guest conductor of festival, community, church and professional choirs. He has researched, lectured and presented extensively on various topics including African American choral music, choral pedagogy, composing/arranging for choirs, social justice, social emotional learning, cultural appropriation, urban music education, community engagement, and diversity, equity and inclusion.
He 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 has authored three books of choral warm-up exercises intended for elementary and secondary choral ensembles, entitled Choir Builders: Fundamental Vocal Techniques for General and Classroom Use (2006); Choir Builders for Growing Voices (2009); and Choir Builders for Growing Voices 2 (2014).
Dilworth serves on the national boards of Chorus America and the Presser Foundation; he is an active life member of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). He also holds memberships with several other organizations, including the National Association for Music Education (NAfME), the National Collegiate Choral Organization (NCCO) and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP).
For Teachers
Invite your students to participate in this incredible opportunity! Parents will fill out an online registration and make payment directly to CCC. You won’t have to manage cash or paper. We will even supply you and your singers rehearsal tracks!
All you need to do is send the registration link to families so they can register and pay for the event. Please contact the office if your school intends to pay for your students’ registrations, or for any other questions including inquiries about group rates.
For Parents
Whether you have reached this page because your child’s teacher is bringing a group of singers, or you are sending your child independently, we are excited you found us! To register your child, use the register button below. You will be able to pay for the event or enter your school’s coupon code if they have arranged a group rate.