Philip Silvey
Associate Professor of Choral Music Education
Director of the B-W Conservatory Women's Choir
Ed.D., University of Illinois
M.M., Penn State
B.M.E., Houghton College
Philip Silvey is Associate Professor of Choral Music Education at Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory where he directs the Women’s Choir, the Conservatory Outreach Honors Chorales, and teaches undergraduate courses in music education. From 2002-2008, he was Assistant Professor of Choral Music Education at the University of Maryland. During that time, he served as Music Director for the acclaimed Maryland Boy Choir for two years and the College Park Youth Choir for three years. He holds degrees in composition from Houghton College and the Pennsylvania State University, and a doctorate in music education from the University of Illinois. He taught for seven years in public schools in Michigan where his choral ensembles were honored with invitations to perform at state conferences for three successive years. He has served as guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator in numerous states and directed all-state choruses in both Maryland and Virginia. He has been president of the Maryland/DC chapter of the American Choral Director’s Association and has presented interest sessions at state and regional ACDA conventions. He has made contributions to the textbook series Experiencing Choral Music and Teaching Music through Performance in Choir, Volume II. His scholarly writings have appeared in the Journal of Research in Music Education and the Arts and Learning Research Journal. His original choral compositions and arrangements, published by Santa Barbara Music, have been performed by both all-state and national honors choruses.
Email: psilvey@bw.edu
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