Dr. Edward D. Latham (B.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University) is currently Director of Music at St. Thomas of Villanova Parish in Villanova, PA, St. Katharine of Siena Parish in Wayne, PA, and Daylesford Abbey in Paoli, PA. He is Chair of Music Studies, Associate Professor of Music Theory, and Coordinator of the DMA in Music Performance at Temple University’s Esther Boyer College of Music and Dance in Philadelphia, PA, where he was the recipient of the 2008 Lindback Award and the 2007 Teaching Academy Award for excellence in teaching.

Dr. Latham’s book, Tonality as Drama: Closure and Interruption in Four Twentieth-Century American Operas, is available from the University of North Texas Press. He is a former Research Associate in the Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College, where he directed the 30-voice Bryn Mawr Renaissance Choir, and is the current Music Director of the 40-voice Villanova Singers at Villanova University and the 80-voice Main Line Singers community choir.

As a professional singer, he has performed with the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir (the resident choir of the Philadelphia Orchestra), the Philadelphia Heritage Chorale (with Aretha Franklin, Andrea Bocelli, and Juanes, for Pope Francis), the Philadelphia Singers, the Philadelphia Chamber Choir, the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, and the Minnesota Chorale, and has appeared in concerts and productions at the Kimmel Center, the Arden Theater, The Boyer College of Music and Dance, and the Philly Fringe Festival. He is a Yale Whiffenpoof, and sings locally with the all-male groups The Tonics and the Orpheus Club of Philadelphia.