Jameson Marvin is Director of Choral Activities and Senior Lecturer on Music at Harvard University.  He is responsible for the choral program at Harvard and conducts the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and teaches courses in Choral Conducting, Masterpieces of Choral Literature, and Renaissance Performance Practices.

Prior to his appointment to Harvard in 1978, Dr. Marvin was Director of Choral Music at Vassar College and Conductor of the Cappella Festival Chamber Choir and Orchestra.  He has held conducting and teaching appointments at Bard College, Lehigh University and the University of Illinois.  In 1984, he was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and Cambridge University, England, and on his most recent sabbatical in 1998, he gave master classes to graduate choral programs on topics ranging from conducting and rehearsing to analysis and interpretation.

Over the past thirty-five years, Dr. Marvin has conducted some eighty symphonic-choral works while developing a national reputation as a conductor, teacher, author, and scholar.  He served on the national committee for the selection of conducting candidates for Fulbright Fellowships and is General Editor of the Oxford University Press Renaissance Choral Series for Men's and Women's Voices.  Dr. Marvin's Harvard choral ensembles have appeared at six national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association.

Dr. Marvin received a Bachelor of Arts in Music Composition from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a Master of Arts in Choral Conducting from Stanford University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Music from the University of Illinois.  The Boston Globe has called Dr. Marvin "a musician of consummate mastery."