Dale Adelmann (M.M. ’86) is Canon for Music at the Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta, and serves on the boards of the Anglican Musicians Foundation and the Ann Stookey Fund for New Music. He has conducted choral festivals across the United States, most often under the auspices of the Royal School of Church Music in America; presented for national conventions of the American Guild of Organist, most recently in Nashville (2012); and conducted the Sewanee Church Music Conference (2011). He is a past president of the Association of Anglican Musicians (AAM), co-chaired its 2009 national conference in Los Angeles, and has served both as editor and consulting editor of the Journal of AAM. Prior music director posts include All Saints’, Beverly Hills; St. Paul’s Cathedral, Buffalo; and, during his final two seasons in Western New York, the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus and its Chamber singers. His choral arrangements are published by Paraclete Press and Oregon Catholic Press. His choirs have recorded for Gothic Records and Pro Organo, and have toured extensively to sing choral services as choir-in-residence in the cathedrals of England.
Following studies at the University of Michigan, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität (Freiburg, Germany), and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, he was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Cambridge, England, where his Ph.D. dissertation and subsequent book uncovered the intimate connection between the nineteenth-century revival of Gothic architecture and the revival of Anglican choral worship. While at Cambridge, he also became the first North American to sing in the Choir of St. John’s College; and he served as musical director of the Gentlemen of St. John’s, conducting concert tours of Sweden, Northern Ireland, Wales, England, and the USA. Since 2007 Dale has enjoyed an annual retreat to write an icon in the Russian liturgical tradition.