Marvin Curtis President 100 Black Men of Greater South Bend, Inc.

Marvin V. Curtis is President of 100 Black Men of Greater South Bend. He is Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Music at the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts at Indiana University South Bend. He is the first African American commissioned to write a choral work for a Presidential Inauguration. The Philander Smith Collegiate Choir of Little Rock, Arkansas, and The United States Marine Band performed his City on the Hill at the 1993 Inauguration of President Bill Clinton, housed at the Smithsonian.

A Chicago native, his degrees are from North Park University (B.M.), The Presbyterian School of Christian Education (M.A.), and The University of the Pacific in Music Education (EdD). Additionally, he studied at Westminster Choir College, The Juilliard School of Music, and The University of Ghana at Lagon as a Ford Foundation Fellow.

An active composer of musical genres and a choral and orchestral conductor, his writings on African American music are published in scholarly journals. He is Vice President/ President-Elect of the South Bend Symphony, the first African American to hold that position. He is President of the St Joseph County Library Board and is involved in numerous community organizations. For 12 years, he was the National Scholarship Chair for the National Association of Negro Musicians.

His honors include his 2021 induction into The South Bend Hall of Fame.