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Our Music Director,
Kenneth Ewan
Ken is a graduate of Combs College of Philadelphia, PA with a
Bachelor of Music in Education and has completed his graduate
studies at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ in education
and choral conducting. Mr. Ewan's choral teachers have included
Dr. Howard Haines, Dr. Joseph Flummerfelt, Dr. Andrew Megill,
Dr. James Jordan and Allen Crowell. Further studies in choral
pedagogy were done with Elaine Brown and Frauke Hassemann.
Ken is a long-time conductor of church, school and community
choruses in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He has recently run the
choral programs at Camden County and Cumberland County Colleges
as well as teaching music appreciation, theory, sight-singing and ear
training. Mr. Ewan has worked with many local area choral groups. Ken has been a long-time member (singer, board member and assistant conductor) of the Greater South Jersey Chorus and Chamber Chorus and has been assistant conductor for the last four seasons. He was also a member of the Lauda! Chamber Singers professional chorus of New Jersey.
Mr. Ewan is co-chair, and choir director of the worship committee for the JPD Wilmington/Philadelphia Growth project and district liaison for the JPD. He has organized and conducted two other church handbell choirs in addition to the current group at UUCCH. Ken is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Musicians Network and performs on a regular basis as singer, conductor and workshop leader in both the national and local (Joseph Priestley District) conferences. He is also a singer and conductor at the UU General Assembly.
Ken is a member of The American Choral Directors Association, MENC and the Unitarian Universalist Musicians Network. He is also a two-time winner (2003, 2006) of the Who's Who Among American Teachers award.