Bel Voce Artistic Director TERESA RHODERICK BOWERS is Assistant Professor of Music at Gettysburg College where she teaches flute, double reeds and music appreciation. Previously, she was Assistant Professor of Music at Lebanon Valley College where she taught flute, flute pedagogy, conducted the Flute Ensemble and, as Co-Director of the Church Music Institute, was responsible for developing curriculum as well as teaching choral conducting and choral literature. She has also served as Associate Director for Worship and Music Education for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America where her responsibilities included developing educational opportunities and resources for parish musicians, pastors and lay persons throughout the country.

In addition to her position as Artistic Director of Bel Voce, Dr. Bowers is conductor of the Music Gettysburg! Festival Chorus and has been the music director of the Cithara Women's Chorale, Gettysburg Chorale and the Harrisburg Choral Society. She serves on the board of directors of Gettysburg Seminary's Music Gettysburg and is Past-President of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, an international, pan-Lutheran professional organization. Dr. Bowers was selected as one of fourteen conducting fellows at the Oregon Bach Festival in 2001. During this three-week festival she worked with master conductor Helmuth Rilling, world renown interpreter of the work of J.S. Bach, and conducted the Oregon Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra in the Discovery Series Concerts. She is a prolific author and has published numerous articles in Choral Journal.

Dr. Bowers is a frequent recitalist, free-lance musician and clinician. She is a member of the flute and harp duo, DUO FRANCAIS and has served as principal flute for the Harrisburg Symphony and the Harrisburg Opera Orchestra. She holds a DMA in Choral Conducting from the University of Maryland as well as degrees from Susquehanna University and The Ohio State University. She has studied conducting with Paul Traver, Donald McGinnis, Frauke Hausseman, and Joseph Flummerfelt and flute with Donald McGinnis, Ronald Waln, John Krell, William Bennett and Julius Baker.