About Our Music Staff

The Pennsylvania Girl Choir is under the direction of Music Director Mark Anderson and Associate Music Director Jodi Bohr.

Mark Anderson -

A native of Montana, Mark Anderson is the Music Director of the Pennsylvania Girlchoir. Mr. Anderson has served as Organist/Choirmaster at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia) since 1996. Anderson is the founder and past director of the San Marino National Organ Competition, the San Marino Music and Arts program, and the Westminster Choir College Middle School Vocal Camp. He was for several years the director of the Westminster Choir College Summer Organ Week for High School Students and is a past Dean of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Anderson has won awards for both his choral compositions and hymns, most recently, the AGO/Concordia University Composition Award.

Mr. Anderson studied at Westminster Choir College, Indiana University and the Eastman School of Music. His primary teachers have been David Craighead and Donald McDonald (organ), Joseph Flummerfelt and Robert Porco (conducting) and Elisabeth Wright (harpsichord.) He has taught at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, Centre College of Kentucky in Danville, and Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Austin, Texas. He has held positions in New York, Kentucky, Texas and California.

An active clinician and recitalist, and hailed by music critic Jon Asgeirsson as “excellent….technically well-grounded and elegant in playing and interpretation,” Mark has presented recitals and master classes throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Germany, Iceland and Japan. Performances, both live and recorded, have been broadcast on the BBC, NPR and Icelandic State Radio. He received top reviews in the Reykjavik Morgunbladid, which referred to his playing at the monumental Hallgrimskirk as “precise and insightful… elegant.”

Jodi Bohr

Jodi Bohr is the Associate Music Director of the Pennsylvania Girlchoir. She has served as the teacher of first through third grade music at Germantown Academy in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania since 1993. She has served as organist and choir director at several churches in the Philadelphia area in the past 16 years. She has accompanied the Academy Chorale and the Singing Patriots at Germantown Academy, the Pennsylvania Youth Chorale (formerly the Bucks County Children's Choir), the Westminster Singers, and the Fred Waring Music Workshop, as well as many musicals and recitals both at school and in the community.

Jodi studied music education and church music at Westminster Choir College, where she was an organ student of Donald McDonald. She has taught private piano lessons and has also taught music theory, sight-singing and ethnomusicology. Jodi has studied music and dance of West Africa, and has completed the Kodaly certification course. She has several works published.