Musical Adventures
with Rollo Dilworth

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Angelica Cantanti has brought some great people and great musicians into the lives of Angelica singers - people who have inspired the singers to new heights of performing excellence and changed the singers lives through the message of the music being shared together. These artists have included composers Steve Heitzeg, Dan Kallman, and Malcolm Dalglish, the Cavani String Quartet, and Tom Davis and his marvelous puppets and masks.

Continuing in this tradition of bringing "top notch", inspiring, life-changing artists to work with the Angelica singers, the staff has invited Rollo Dilworth to visit Angelica in February.

Creative, energetic, engaging, charismatic, fun, great musician, good rehearsal technician, used the kids' musical language to teach other musical concepts - his work with young singers is amazing! In February Angelica Singers and guest choirs will have the opportunity to make music with the very popular clinician, conductor, composer, and educator from Chicago, Rollo Dilworth. Saturday February 3 will feature all of the Angelica singers, plus guests from the community, in a workshop with Rollo. Sunday February 4, 2:30 PM at St. Michael's Lutheran Church, the community is invited to watch Rollo "in action" as he makes music with close to 300 young singers. His performing endeavors have taken him to the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.

Although his academic, educational and composing endeavors have gained him great respect around the world, it is his ability to connect with young singers with overflowing energy and enthusiasm that will make a difference in the lives of the singers who will be privileged to work with him in February in Bloomington.

Rollo's Bio from North Park University web page:
Director of Choral Programs
B.S. in Music Education, Case Western Reserve University
M.Ed. in Secondary Education, University of Missouri-St. Louis
D.M. in Conducting, Northwestern University

Rollo Dilworth is an active conductor, educator, and clinician who has taught choral music at the elementary, secondary, and university levels. He is a contributing author for the Essential Elements for Choir textbook series, published by the Hal Leonard Corporation/ Glencoe Publications, and for "Music Express!" Teachers Magazine. His research interests are in the areas of African-American music and music education curriculum and instruction. Dilworth is an award winning composer, his choral compositions being part of the Henry Leck Choral series published with Hal Leonard Corporation and Colla Voce Music Company. His performing endeavors have taken him to Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.