Email: editmer@lvpa.org
Phone: (610) 868-2971 Ext.127
Currently, at LVPA, Miss Ellen Ditmer directs the Women’s Choir, 9/10 Choir, and Show Choir, and teaches piano technique, vocal technique, music theory, and music history classes.
Miss Ditmer earned a B.S. in Music Education from Lebanon Valley College in 2002, with a piano concentration.
She participated in the Concert Choir, performed solo piano repertoire, accompanied a number of vocal and instrumental students, and completed training in piano pedagogy and literature. Later, she participated in graduate musical studies at the University of Delaware in Newark. Her coursework included advanced choral conducting and literature studies, and music history.
Formerly, Miss Ditmer taught from 2002-2008 in Dover, Delaware’s Capital School District. While there, she directed the seventh and eighth grade choirs, and created several extra-curricular choral ensembles, including men’s and women’s choirs, and the select Madrigal Ensemble. She was also member of the Delaware All-State Junior Chorus committee from 2005-2008.
From 2004-2008, Miss Ditmer was a member of the University of Delaware’s semi-professional choir, Schola Cantorum. The group of 150+ student and community singers performed concerts on and off campus, with the university’s orchestra, and with the Delaware Symphony Orchestra in Wilmington.