About

Our holistic and multifaceted programs engage youth and families through music and mentoring.

About

Our Programs

  • Professional-level lessons in piano, voice and musicianship
  • Academic tutoring and leadership development
  • Enrichment, health and wellness programs
  • Opportunities for public performance and travel
  • An intergenerational professional environment

Who we serve

We serve at-risk students under age 18 from the greater Wilmington area


Our students' needs

92% of our students need transportation and 87% qualify for free lunch plans



Our impact

100% of our students graduate high school with a GPA of at least 2.0


Annual Reach

87

Volunteers

100+

Students

540+

One-on-One Hours

Our History

The Choir School of Delaware is a registered 501(c)(3) organization that serves students from the greater Wilmington area through music and mentoring in an intergenerational environment.

  1. The Choir is established upon the opening of the Cathedral Church of St. John’s at Concord and Market Streets in the Brandywine Village of WIlmington.
  2. The choir expands to include girls.

  3. The Cathedral Dean and Director of Music look for a way to address the challenge of noisy neighborhood children in the Cathedral green after school.

    They invite them to form a choir, and they add voice and piano lessons for interested students.

  4. The Choir School is recognized as the best after school program in the nation with the Coming Up Taller award presented by Laura Bush at the White House.

    The choir tours England, singing services at Exeter Cathedral, Truro Cathedral and Buckfast Abbey.

  5. Volunteer mentors begin to work with individual students through a Mentoring Academy, and support students with math, reading and study skills.
  6. The choir tours New York City and sings at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, Trinity Church Wall Street, The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, St. Patrick’s Cathedral and St. Bartholomew Church.
  7. The Cathedral Church of St. John closes its doors and the Choir School begins leasing space on the second floor of the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew.
  8. The Choir School returned to its historic roots at the Cathedral Church of St. John.
  9. The Choir School expands programming to include instrumental music with strategic partners.

Open Positions

Apply Today! Please email your resume and cover letter to careers@choirschoolofdelaware.org.

  • Development Manager

    The Choir School of Delaware (CSD) seeks a proactive, relationship-driven Development Manager to lead individual donor engagement, donor reactivation, foundation relationships, and event sponsorship execution in close collaboration with an active Executive Director.


     This role comes with turnkey organizational infrastructure: candidates inherit a pre-segmented donor pipeline pre-loaded into Monday.com and supported by DonorView CRM, eliminating the need to build prospect lists from scratch.


    The Development Manager will focus on high-touch outbound outreach, micro-grant writing, corporate sponsorships, and event execution, supported by external partners for major grants over $5,000 (ShoeString DE) and communications contractors. Major government and federal grants are led by executive leadership.


    Full Job Description


    Send resume and cover letter to careers@choirschoolofdelaware.org

Our team

The CSD Team is passionate about our students and providing them with every possible opportunity

Our Team

Board of Directors

  •  Emery Abdel-Latif, Esq., President
  •  Tishena Yaphett Moss, Vice President
  • William Bryant, Interim Treasurer
  •  Dr. Rosanne Foley, Secretary
  •  Ben Osbun
  •  Tracey Roberts
  • Michelle Eklund