Professor Scott Tucker,
Director of Choral Music

Since 1995, Scott Tucker has been Director of Choral Music at Cornell University where he conducts the Cornell University Chorus, Glee Club, and World Music Choir. He also oversees the activities of the Cornell Chorale, Chamber Singers, and Sage Chapel Choir, and teaches courses in music theory and conducting. Under Professor Tucker's leadership, the Cornell choirs have established a strong relationship with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra with whom they perform regularly. The Glee Club and the Chorus have recently collaborated with such acclaimed artists as Anonymous 4, Peter Schreier and Samite Mulondo. Each choir also tours extensively and has been featured on a number of festivals and concert series both in the U.S. and abroad. In 1997, the Glee Club appeared on NPR's "A Prairie Home Companion" hosted by Garrison Keillor.

An active proponent of new music, Professor Tucker has commissioned and premiered more than fifteen new choral works in the past ten years. He serves as Repertoire and Standards Chair for Male Choirs in the Eastern Division of the American Choral Directors Association, and as a board member of the Intercollegiate Men's Choirs and Musicians for World Harmony.

Prior to coming to Cornell, Tucker was choral director of Milton Academy, and assistant conductor at Harvard University. He was also a paid tenor soloist at King's Chapel, Boston under the direction of Daniel Pinkham.

Professor Tucker received a Master of Music degree in choral conducting from the from the New England Conservatory of Music, a Bachelor of Music degree in trumpet performance from the New England Conservatory, and a Bachelor of Science degree from Tufts University. He has received the Cornell Student Activities Outstanding Advisor Award, is listed in Who's Who of American Music Teachers, received a Talbot Baker Award for excellence in teaching, a St. Botolph Award for notable artists in the Boston area, and was a Presser Scholar.

John Rowehl,
Assistant Conductor

John Rowehl began his musical training at age seven with classical piano lessons. Eight years later, after two consecutive first-place finishes in Hawaii's state-wide piano competition, he was invited to study at the Juilliard School. John chose instead to earn a B.A. in philosophy at Stanford University, where he also studied voice and served as vocal accompanist.

Continuing his steady march out of the tropics and into the frozen north, John came to us at Cornell to pursue a Ph.D. in philosophy, where he currently works as editor of the Philosophical Review. In Ithaca, John studies and teaches voice and has served as studio pianist for Susan Davenny Wyner and Judith Kellock. He is also on the staff of Cornell's Vocal Coaching Program.

John has been heard as baritone soloist in the Finger Lakes Bach Festival, with Ensemble Sine Nomine, and NYS Baroque. A long-time member of the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble, John served in 1997-1998 as the group's Acting Musical Director.