Jameson Marvin

Jameson Marvin retired after 32 years as Director of Choral Activities and Senior Lecturer on Music at Harvard University (1978-2010). Under his direction the choral program at Harvard grew to include six choirs and achieve national prominence. He conducted the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and under his conductorship these ensembles appeared at seven national and ten divisional conventions of the American Choral Directors Association. His ensembles are considered to be among the premier collegiate choruses in America.

Prior to coming to Harvard, Dr. Marvin was for nine years the Director of Choral Music at Vassar College and Conductor of the Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir and Orchestra. He has conducted some 80 symphonic-choral works and has served on the national committee for the selection of conducting candidates for the Fulbright Fellowships. His mastery of the choral art is reflected by his distinguished national reputation as a conductor, teacher, author, scholar, editor, and arranger. The Boston Globe calls Marvin “a choral conductor of consummate mastery.”

Dr. Marvin’s articles on choral music, editions of Renaissance works for mixed, women’s, and men’s choruses, and arrangements of numerous folk songs appear in some 70 publications. Raised in Glendale, California, he received his B.A. degree in Music Theory, History, and Composition from the University of California Santa Barbara, the M.A. degree in Choral Conducting and Early Music Performance from Stanford University, and the D.M.A. in Choral Music from the University of Illinois."