Read about our commissioned composers for the Providence 2026 Conference!
Ben Bram (he/him) is a 2x Grammy and Emmy Award-winning vocal arranger, producer, engineer, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY and Los Angeles, CA. As co-creator of renowned pop a cappella group Pentatonix, summer vocal program A Cappella Academy, R&B ensemble Citizen Queen, and children’s music brand Acapop! KIDS, Ben has left a lasting impact on the vocal music world. He has had the privilege to work with many artists including the Backstreet Boys, Sabrina Carpenter, Jacob Collier, Tori Kelly, Trousdale, and The King’s Singers. Ben’s work has also extended to film and TV, where he has contributed to NBC’s The Sing-Off, Glee, and the Pitch Perfect films. His vocal arrangements can also be heard in commercials for major brands such as Super Bowl LVII, Honda, CoverGirl, and Lifetime. His latest project is the formation of the New York Vocal Collective, a professional-level multi-genre choir based in New York City.
Tehillah Alphonso is a Nigerian-American singer, teacher, and GRAMMY®-nominated arranger based in Los Angeles, California. A proud Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of Southern California, she received her B.M. in Popular Music Performance from the Thornton School of Music and was named Outstanding Graduate in 2020. Upon graduating, she quickly made a name for herself in the live and recorded music industry in Los Angeles, having sung on a number of films (e.g. Wicked, Encanto, NOPE, Black Panther; Wakanda Forever, etc.); television shows (The Rookie, Minx, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds); and alongside many notable artists, including Lebo M., Aloe Blacc, Fantasia, Jennifer Hudson, Billie Eilish, and Olivia Rodrigo. Tehillah now serves as the a cappella director of Pacifica Christian High School’s award-winning a cappella group, Wolf PACappella, and she has since returned to USC as an adjunct professor in Popular Music Voice.
A GRAMMY® nominated singer and composer from Michigan, USA, Blake Morgan enjoys a career that spans the spheres of choral, jazz, folk, and pop music.
Composing and arranging “imaginatively and beautifully” (Seen And Heard), his work has been performed all across the globe, from Sydney Opera House to the BBC Proms Festival, and he has received commissions from several of the world’s leading vocal groups such as The King’s Singers, Take 6, Chanticleer, VOCES8, Conspirare, and The Manhattan Transfer with their recent GRAMMY® nominated album “Fifty.” A lover of folk tunes, Blake also writes original music for his chamber-pop projects Goodnight Mr. Max and Esto, and collaborates frequently with artists such as Sid Sriram, Lambchop, and Bon Iver.
Blake is an accomplished ensemble singer, and is the only musician to have been a member of both full-time choral ensembles in the United States, Cantus and Chanticleer. He currently sings and tours internationally with the full-time British chamber octet, VOCES8, and now resides in Scotland.
More than 150 of Rollo Dilworth’s choral compositions and arrangements have been published—many of which are a part of the Henry Leck Creating Artistry Choral Series with Hal Leonard Corporation. Additional publications can be found in the catalogs of Santa Barbara Music Publishing and Colla Voce Music, Inc. Dilworth is a contributing author for the Essential Elements for Choir and the Experiencing Choral Music textbook series, both published by the Hal Leonard Corporation/Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Publications, and for Music Express! Teachers Magazine. He has authored 3 books of choral warm up exercises intended for elementary and secondary choral ensembles, entitled Choir Builders: Fundamental Vocal Techniques for General and Classroom Use (2006); Choir Builders for Growing Voices (2009); and Choir Builders for Growing Voices 2 (2014).
A frequent presenter at local, state, regional and national conferences, Dilworth has conducted 43 all-state choirs at various levels (elementary, middle school, high school), and has conducted 6 regional honor choirs and 4 national honor choirs (ADCA, OAKE and NafME). He has most recently appeared as guest conductor for international choral festivals and master classes in Australia, Canada, Taiwan, Ireland, and China as well as all-state choirs in North Carolina, Oklahoma, Ohio, Arizona and Massachusetts. He has also led honor choirs for the Central and Southwest regions of the American Choral Directors Association. International festival and clinic invitations include Canada, Singapore, Austria and France.
Dilworth is currently National Board Chair for Chorus America. He is an active life member of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). He also holds memberships with several other organizations, including the National Association for Music Education (NafME), the National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM) and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). In 2017, he received the Temple University Faculty Award for Research and Creative Achievement.