Unidel Distinguished Professor of Choral Studies, University of Delaware
Founder and Director of the Delaware Choral Academy
Creator and Facilitator of THE CHORAL ROOM 2020
Dr. Paul D. Head
Director of Choral Studies, University of Delaware
Dr. Head has has been on the faculty at the University of Delaware since 1997, serving on the conducting faculty, teaching music education courses, mentoring graduate students, and serving twice as the Chair/Director of the School of Music over a period of eight years. His choirs have performed on six ACDA conventions (regional and national), frequently toured Asia and Europe (including top awards at four international choral festivals), and have held residencies with the Delaware and Jerusalem Symphony Orchestras. In 2014, he founded the Delaware Choral Academy Conducting Symposium in the South of France, which ran for six years, and now serves as the foundation for an international choral exchange program.
Before coming to Delaware, he taught high school for nearly ten years in Northern California. He is author and co-editor of several publications, including Case Studies in Music Education, and the Oxford Handbook of Choral Pedagogy. He currently resides in south-eastern Pennsylvania with his wife of 36 years, has three grown children, and a lovable dog named Charley.
Meet our ever-growing panel of outstanding teachers and esteemed guests
Who are these people, and where did they come from?
The impetus of this project is the desire to create a dialogue… an ongoing conversation between students, teachers, and highly regarded experts to speak to specific tenets of these unfolding discussions. In the first round, we’ve turned to alumni and friends of the University of Delaware, celebrating the shared experiences we have all enjoyed there over the past decades. In time, we expect this circle to grow, as we come to embrace that we are stronger together – especially when engaged in dynamic banter in a shared “knowledge-base” community, while imagining how the choir room will continue to evolve in 2021 and beyond.
CHORAL ROOM 2020 