Jeff Fowler has been a church musician in the Philadelphia and
Detroit metropolitan areas since 1970. He grew up in Allentown,
Pennsylvania, and holds degrees from West Chester University and the
University of Michigan. At Michigan he studied under and worked as
teaching assistant to University Organist, Marilyn Mason, and was
awarded the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, the David McK. Williams
Scholarship, and the degree Doctor of Musical Arts.
Dr. Fowler has been the Minister of Music at WPC since 1992, during
which time the music program has grown from about 150 participants in
six choirs to over 400 participants in ten choirs. Since Fowler's
reorganization of the choir in 1992, "The Wayne Oratorio Society" has
performed 49 unique major choral works in 115 concerts all accompanied
by orchestra. Jeff is also adjunct professor of organ at Eastern
University in St. Davids. He has performed on the organ for audiences in
Germany, Italy, Switzerland, as well as for Sunday High Mass at the
Vatican.
Jeff has been active with the Philadelphia Chapter of the American
Guild of Organists (AGO), serving on its Executive Committee; as Chair
of the Exhibits Committee for the 2002 National AGO Convention at the
Philadelphia Marriott attended by 2,500; and as Sub-Dean and then Dean
of the Philadelphia AGO Chapter. In November 2007 and again in November
2010, he put together massed choirs of over 450 singers organized from a
pool of 810 singers from 66 churches of the Presbytery of Philadelphia.
The concerts were held at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center. "One Joyful
Choir", as the choir was so named, is the largest to ever sing in the
Kimmel Center.
Dr. Fowler can be reached at jfowler@waynepres.org or 610.688.8700 x 224.