Delvyn Case is a composer, conductor, scholar, performer and educator based in Boston area. His music has been performed by over 100 orchestras in the UK, UK, and Europe, including the National Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony, and the Boston Pops. Other performers of his music have included Grammy-winning artists Richard Stoltzman and Chestnut Brass Company, as well as the Mivos Quartet, Borromeo Quartet, Palaver Strings, Hermitage Trio, the US Coast Guard Band, and the Dallas Wind Symphony. His music has been heard at the Kennedy Center and on NPR’s “Performance Today”.
As a composer, he has received honors and fellowships from numerous organizations, including BMI, The Society of Composers, The MacDowell Colony, The New York Virtuoso Singers, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, The Composers Conference at Wellesley, the Orvis Foundation, The Chicago Ensemble, Audio Inversions, Sounds New, the National Association of Composers, and The College Music Society, among others. In 2021 he was named Distinguished Composer of the Year by the Music Teachers National association. In 2024 he served as a Visiting Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford.
Delvyn Case is the founder and executive director of Deus Ex Musica, an international organization that promotes the use of new sacred music as a resource for spiritual formation, ecumenical understanding, and interfaith dialogue. He is the composer of the 75-minute chamber opera The Prioress’s Tale, a parable about religious intolerance that toured throughout New England for three years as part of a unique initiative designed to promote Jewish-Christian dialogue.
Dr. Case is currently Professor of Music at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, where he holds the A. Howard Meneely Honorary Professorship. He studied music at Yale College (B.A. summa cum laude in music ), and the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D.( in Musical Composition.) He has served as Visiting Faculty in the Department of Composition and Theory at the Longy School of Music, and is a past faculty member at Boston College and Northeastern University.