Artistic Director

James D. Moyer is the Artistic Director and co-founder of the Pennsbury Community Chorus. He was born in 1964 in Easton, Pennsylvania. He completed his Bachelor of Music degree in voice and organ at Westminster Choir College in Princeton , New Jersey in 1986. While there, he studied under Frauke Haasemann, Allen Crowell, Robert Carwithen and Marvin Keenze. He also sang in the Westminster Symphonic Choir under the direction of Joseph Flummerfelt.

Mr. Moyer then went on to the University of Oklahoma to complete the Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting in 1990. While there, he studied with Dr. Dennis Shrock. Since leaving Oklahoma, he has done additional postgraduate work at Temple University in Philadelphia, and Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ.

Various choirs under Jim’s direction have performed throughout the United States, including at the White House and the National Cathedral in Washington, DC, and across Europe, including St. Paulís Cathedral and Westminster Abby in London. From 1993 - 1999 he led the Western Branch Choirs from Chesapeake, Virginia to international acclaim. They were invited guests of Gian Carlo Menotti to sing on the ORA MISTICA series of the 1998 Spoleto Festival in Spoleto, Italy. The choirs also won numerous awards and honors, and sang for such noted conductors as James Jordan, Donald Nally and Joseph Flummerfelt.

Currently, Mr. Moyer is the Director of Choral Music for the Pennsbury Schools in Fallsington, PA and Director of Music at The Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville, Lawrenceville, NJ, and was formerly Director of Music and Fine Arts at the First Presbyterian Church of Morrisville, PA from 1999 to 2008. He is a former President of the Virginia American Choral Directors Association (VACDA), and has served on four convention committees for ACDA. He often contributes reviews to The Choral Journal, and is sought after for clinics, workshops, adjudications and guest conducting.

Contact details and further information

James D. Moyer

Director of PHS Choral Activities and Coordinator of Vocal/Choral Music K-12
Pennsbury High School, West Campus Building
608 South Olds Boulevard
Fairless Hills, PA 19030
215-949-6780 x70975; 215-949-4645 fax

E-mail: James D. Moyer

James D. Moyer

Artistic Director of the Pennsbury Community Chorus