2003 Commissioned Composer

Rollo A. Dilworth is Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities and Music Education at the North Park University School of Music in Chicago, Illinois.  He recently completed requirements for the Doctor of Music degree in Conducting Performance at Northwestern University, and he holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Case Western Reserve University and the University of Missouri - St. Louis, respectively.

An award-winning composer and active conductor, educator and clinician, Dilworth has taught choral music at the elementary, secondary and university levels.  His performing endeavors have taken him to the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.  In addition to composing music in the choral genre, Dilworth’s research interests are in the areas of African-American music and music education curriculum and instruction.  He is associate conductor and composer-in-residence for the Jubilate Children’s Choir of the North Shore, in Northfield, and he serves as Minister of Music at Martin Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Chicago, Illinois.  Dilworth was born in 1970 in St. Louis, Missouri.

Walk, Children, Walk!—commissioned by Kay Stephens in Spring 2003 for YNS