Rollo A. Dilworth (born September 23, 1970) is an American choral composer, arranger, conductor, and music educator from St. Louis, Missouri.
[3] He spent a year teaching elementary school music full-time while also attending the University of Missouri-St. Louis to complete a master's degree in secondary education.
[3] Throughout the program, Dilworth's long-time musical idol, Robert Ray, taught him composition and arranging skills.
[1] Dilworth served as the director of the music education and choral programs at North Park University in Chicago, Illinois from 1996 to 2009.
He recognizes Beethoven and Chopin as beloved classical icons in his life, but his compositional style is largely influenced by Gospel and Spiritual composers such as Robert Ray and Moses Hogan.
He has a particular affinity for the poetry of Langston Hughes and Paul Laurence Dunbar,[9] a love which has moved him to compose settings of their texts.