Westminster Choir
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| Motto | Latin: Spectemur agendo |
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Motto in English
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Let us be judged by our deeds |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1926 |
| Endowment | $20 million |
| President | Gregory G. Dell’Omo |
| Dean | Matthew R. Shaftel |
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Academic staff
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75 |
| Undergraduates | 400 |
| Postgraduates | 110 |
| Location | Princeton, New Jersey, United States |
| Campus | Suburban, 23 acres (93,000 m²) (Princeton Borough and Township) |
| Colors | Purple and Gold |
| Mascot | None |
| Website | Westminster Choir College |
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Westminster Choir College is a residential conservatory of music located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. It is currently a part of Rider University, however, they announced on March 28, 2017 that they would be taking the next twelve months to seek another affiliate institution for the choir college.
Westminster Choir College educates men and women at the undergraduate and graduate levels for musical careers in music education, voice performance, piano performance, organ performance, pedagogy, music theory and composition, conducting, sacred music, and arts management; professional training in musical skills with an emphasis on performance is complemented by studies in the liberal arts. All students study with Westminster's voice faculty, the largest voice faculty in the world. The school's proximity to New York City and Philadelphia provides students with easy access to the musical resources of both cities.
In 1920 John Finley Williamson founded the Westminster Choir at the Westminster Presbyterian Church of Dayton, Ohio. In 1926, he established the Westminster Choir School. The school started with a faculty of ten, and sixty students. The graduates came to be known as Ministers of Music, a term coined by Williamson and still used today by many church music programs.
In 1922, the choir, then known as the Dayton Westminster Choir, began touring the United States annually, singing in Carnegie Hall (New York City), nearby Cincinnati Music Hall (Cincinnati), Symphony Hall (Boston), the Academy of Music (Philadelphia), Orchestra Hall (Chicago) and the White House for President Calvin Coolidge. Years later the Choir also sang for Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Choir made its first commercial recording with RCA Victor in 1926; recordings with other major conductors and orchestras followed.
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