SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Dr. D. Jason Bishop is the Director of Choral Activities and Lecturer in Music at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, where he also serves as Founder & Artistic Director of the Young People's Chorus of Erie. Dr. Bishop holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting from the University of Oklahoma, a Master of Music degree in conducting from Boston University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and Classical Languages from Rhodes College. His conducting teachers have included Dennis Shrock, Ann Howard Jones, David Hoose, and Tony Garner.
From January 1999 to May 2003, Dr. Bishop served as Director of the Choral Program at the Women’s College of Lesley University in Cambridge, MA where he also taught music theory and music history courses. Concurrently, Dr. Bishop held the position of Assistant and Consultant to the President of the Longy School of Music in Cambridge.
Praised for both his passion and his efficiency on the podium, Dr. Bishop is in frequent demand as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator, and has also had the opportunity to sing in a number of professional choral ensembles, including the Santa Fe Desert Chorale of New Mexico. He currently serves as the Northwest Region Chair for the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association, as well as Editor of the Pennsylvania choral journal, Polyphony.