In honor of his upcoming retirement in 2018, William Parberry's Choral Singers have started The Parberry Choral Scholars Fund that will provide financial support to future Penn music majors and choral scholars.

Bill has directed the University of Pennsylvania Choral Society and Choir since 1973. Through its long history the Penn choruses have performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony, and the Opera Society Orchestra of New York. While the University Choir performs exclusively Classical music on campus, they were chosen to perform with two major popular performing artists - Michael Crawford (The Phantom of the Opera) in his tour of the United States in 1998 - and Barbra Streisand, in the final concert of her career at Madison Square Garden in 2000. As co-director of Early Music at Penn, Bill also conducts Ancient Voices, one of the premier vocal ensembles in Philadelphia.