Profile: Dr. Jason Bishop

Bishop said it is the greatest lesson he has learned while working as the artistic director for the Young People’s Chorus of Erie and as the director of choral activities at Penn State Behrend.

“What I’ve learned is that children and young teens are more than ready to make a contribution to the world, if we will just let them,” he said.

With that type of attitude, it is easy to understand how Bishop led the YPC of Erie to apply and be accepted into the 2012 World Choir Games to be held from July 4 to 14 in Cincinnati. It is the first time the biennial games, sometimes known as the Choir Olympics, will be held in the United States. The 2010 games were held in China.