Contact

Email: case_delvyn@wheatoncollege.edu

Phone: 508-286-3588

Website: http://delvyn-case.squarespace.com/

Education

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Musical Composition, 2001
B.A. summa cum laude, Yale College, Music, 1997

About

Hello, and thanks for visiting the music department at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.

I’m a composer, conductor, scholar, performer, concert producer, and educator based in Boston. I’m also a Wheaton parent – which says a lot about how much I love Wheaton and how much I believe in our extraordinary community.

I began teaching at Wheaton in 2010, after having spent a year teaching graduate student composers at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts.    Before then, I taught  undergraduates at Boston College, Northeastern University, and Eastern Nazarene College.

People often ask me what kind of music I listen to, and the answer is simple: everything I can! Though my formal training is in the Western classical tradition, I compose, study, perform, and write about all kinds of music.   On a given day at Wheaton, I might conduct an orchestra rehearsal,  give a lecture on hip-hop, and teach a songwriting course. Then I might go home to work on my book on popular music, or put on an outreach concert at my daughter’s school, or try to find inspiration for my new string quartet.     (You can read a lot more about my professional activities, as well as my Artistic Statement and Teaching Statement, on my website.

My breadth of interest and experience helps me work with the wide variety of students I encounter on campus.  Most first-year student musicians have experience as instrumentalists and/or singers. But because of our diverse array of courses and performing opportunities, they soon expand their skills and knowledge in a wide variety of directions.  In recent years, my students have had their music played by our orchestra, performed their original songs at the largest folk festival in New England, and written papers on everything from Kanye West to Jesus Christ Superstar.

I’m passionate about the power of musical study to contribute to a well-rounded liberal arts education. I’m also excited about the way the skills gained in a liberal arts education make my students into better musicians.   Wheaton is a place that celebrates and supports the kind of interdisciplinary work that expands their intellectual horizons and nourishes their musical lives.