About the Artist

Mr. Ross Boerner is a choral conductor, church music director, vocalist and pianist. He has been making music professionally since he was 18 years old, having accepted a church music director position at his home church in Boyertown, PA. Ross knew he was meant for a life in choral music as he spent many hours as a young child conducting to tape recordings of choirs in his parents kitchen.
Mr. Boerner holds a BA in Music from Eastern University in St. Davids, PA. He has studied choral conducting with Dr. James Jordan at Westminster Choir College along with Dr. Giselle Wyers of the University of Washington and the three-time Grammy Award winner, Dr. Vance George; Chorus Director Emeritus of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Further musical trainings have included work under several nationally known choral artists including; Moses Hogan, Alice Parker, David Fanshaw, and Dr. Eph Ely of the University of Missouri.
Ross has years of training and experience on the piano and pipe organ, but as a vocalist he has performed by selection in three concerts in New York’s Carnegie Hall; including the premiere of David Fanshaw’s African Sanctus. He has also performed solos in England’s Westminster Abby and Arundel Cathedral, as well as the Notre Dame Cathedral in France. Ross has been a guest choral and orchestral conductor at several local churches in the area for their Christmas concerts and other special programs. 
Beginning in 2012, Mr. Boerner has served as the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Norristown Chorale. In 2014, He began serving as the Director of Music Ministries and Organist at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in King of Prussia, PA. Previously, he spent 14 years in a similar position at the First Baptist Church of Norristown in West Norriton, PA. Ross is the founder of MontCo Hymn Festivals, a community-based program for the preservation and continuance of choral music and the hymn singing tradition. As a meticulous music educator, Mr. Boerner created the Boerner Piano Discipline Series (BPDS) through which he offers piano pedagogy and theoretical concepts to over a dozen students ranging in ages from 5 – adult.