Composers
Cameron Wentz
Member since: 2022
Dr. CAMERON WENTZ is a composer, church musician and educator originally from York County, Pennsylvania. He earned his Bachelor of Music degree from Westminster Choir College, having studied composition with Benjamin C.S. Boyle and organ with Alan Morrison. He completed his Master of Music degree at The Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, studying composition with Michael Hersch and organ with John Walker. After pursuing further graduate studies in the United Kingdom, where he studied composition with Rob Keeley and Edward Nesbit at King's College London, Cameron returned to the U.S. to complete his doctorate at the University of Maryland, studying composition and theory with Thomas DeLio. He has served at churches in the U.S. and U.K., including as Director of Music at St. John the Divine in the Richmond suburb of London, and at historic Christ Lutheran Church in Gettysburg, P.A. As an educator, he worked as a teaching assistant at King's College London and taught undergraduate courses in aural skills at the University of Maryland. For the past two-and-a-half years, Cameron served as Associate Director of Music and Organist at The Reformed Church of Bronxville in Westchester County. Cameron currently teaches musicianship and ear training for the National Children's Chorus and is now serving as Cantor at Trinity Lutheran Church in downtown Reading, P.A. He and his husband, Jorge, live in Wyomissing, P.A.