NOTUS' Third Album Release: "Weaving Eternity"
Under the direction of Dominick DiOrio, NOTUS has emerged as one of America’s most luminous contemporary vocal collectives — a vibrant laboratory of living, breathing music. NOTUS' third commercial release, Weaving Eternity: Music of Wild Imagination gathers works by five composers whose styles range from radiant abstraction to folkloric murmur, unified by a shared sense of harmonic color. Featuring music by Gabriel Jenks, Don Freund, Dale Trumbore, Zanaida Stewart Robles, and Dominick DiOrio, with featured saxophone artist Otis Murphy.
upcoming events
sunday, october 5 2025
Florida Gulf Coast University Chamber Choir Performance
Florida Gulf Coast University Chamber Choir - Trent Brown, conductor
Trent R. Brown and the FGCU Chamber Choir give a performance of my work Day of Fire and Sun as part of their Fall Choral program.
tuesday, october 7 2025
NOTUS: CREDO Project
NOTUS - Dominick DiOrio, conductor
NOTUS takes part in Carus-Verlag's CREDO Project, giving the US Premieres of six new scores by composers Marten Jansson, Keiko Harada, Grayston (Bill) Ives, Victoria Vita Poleva, Martín Palmeri, and Dominick DiOrio. Additional works by Michael Markowski and Diana Syrse will be performed, plus Dominick Argento's major work, Peter Quince at the Clavier. Free.
thursday, october 9 2025
The Best of Seraphic Fire
Seraphic Fire - James K. Bass, conductor
James K. Bass leads Seraphic Fire in their opening concert of the year, featuring timeless favorites from across the 23 years of the ensemble's programming. Includes my work, I Am with soprano solo. More information here.
about dominick
Recognized with The American Prizes in both Choral Composition (2014) and Choral Performance (2019, with NOTUS), Dominick DiOrio is an energetic conductor and composer who has won widespread acclaim for his contributions to American music. He is professor of music and chair of the department in choral conducting at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he joined the faculty in 2012, and where he serves as director of NOTUS.
DiOrio also serves as the fourteenth artistic director and conductor of the Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia, where he regularly prepares the chorus to sing with The Philadelphia Orchestra, including a "near ideal" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) performance of Carmina burana in March 2024 with conductor Fabio Luisi. DiOrio’s combined role as a composer-conductor has led to many unique opportunities and collaborations with some of the most important artists and icons of our time, including novelist Richard Powers, the Right Reverend Bishop Gene Robinson, and actor William Shatner.
DiOrio’s original music has been hailed for its keenly intelligent, evocative style, which shows “a tour de force of inventive thinking and unique colour” (Gramophone). His over 70 published works have appeared at major venues around the world including the Sydney Opera House, Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall, as well as internationally.
He composes for musicians of all ages and experiences and has completed over 70 commissions in the last decade. Some recent commissioning partners include the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus and the San Francisco Symphony, the Children’s Chorus of Washington, the Cincinnati Vocal Arts Ensemble & Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, The Choral Arts Society of Washington, “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band, and many academic institutions.
DiOrio is deeply committed to strengthening the profession by empowering others, and he recently completed a four-year term as president and president-elect of the National Collegiate Choral Organization (2018-22), for which he was honored with NCCO's inaugural Distinguished Service Award. DiOrio has also served as chair of ACDA’s Composition Initiatives Standing Committee and as a member of the Board of Directors for Chorus America. He earned the Doctor of Musical Arts from the Yale School of Music, as well as the M.M.A. and M.M. in Conducting from Yale and the B.M. in Composition summa cum laude from Ithaca College.
selected works
press
"An effort where each track carries its own unique identity, Adams is in excellent company and every moment benefits from the skilled interaction and rich solo bouts."
Take Effect Staff
Historic episcopal leader to preach at Pasadena church as commissioned choral work debuts
Pasadena Now Staff
recent news
Under the direction of Dominick DiOrio, NOTUS has emerged as one of America’s most luminous contemporary vocal collectives — a vibrant laboratory of living, breathing music. NOTUS' third commercial release, WEAVING ETERNITY gathers works by five composers whose styles range from radiant abstraction to folkloric murmur, unified by a shared sense of harmonic color. Featuring music by Gabriel Jenks, Don Freund, Dale Trumbore, Zanaida Stewart Robles, and Dominick DiOrio, with featured saxophone artist Otis Murphy. Explore the album here.
A consortium of churches, community choruses, and cultural institutions has come together to honor The Right Reverend V. Gene Robinson through world premiere performances of my newly commissioned musical composition born from Gene's words: Our Wildest Imagining. Lead Commissioner institutions include Washington National Cathedral, The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, Gay Men's Chorus of Washington D.C., and more. Premiere performances begin June 1 and continue through 2026.
My original work A Home Is Found at Christmas will see its Philadelphia premiere performed by The Philadelphia Orchestra and Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia on December 14th and 15th, 2024 as part of "The Glorious Sound of Christmas," a series of concerts made famous by Eugene Ormandy's recording of many years ago. William Eddins conducts the performances, with the Mendelssohn Chorus prepared by yours truly.
Beloved actor William Shatner, an Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner best known for his role as Captain Kirk in “Star Trek,” will deliver a spoken-word performance on April 8th at Indiana University's Memorial Stadium before the total eclipse of the sun. Shatner’s spoken-word performance will be a collaboration with students and faculty from the IU Jacobs School of Music. It will include new original music written for the occasion by Dominick DiOrio, performed by student musicians from NOTUS, the Jacobs School’s internationally renowned contemporary vocal ensemble. Read the press release here.
