Dominick DiOrio

Upcoming Performances - 2008-2009 Season
Conducting
(* premiere)

10 August 2008 - University Church Summer Choir Sings Britten
Rebecca Duren, soprano; Derek Greten-Harrison, countertenor; Michael Sansoni, tenor; Tian Hui Ng, baritone; Chelsea Chen, organ
Battell Chapel - Yale University - New Haven, CT
- 10:30am 
  • Britten - Rejoice in the Lamb
5 October 2008 - Master of Musical Arts Recital 
Dominick DiOrio conducting Yale Recital Chorus and Orchestra
Featuring Joshua Kohl, tenor; and Christopher Cerrone, tape
Battell Chapel - Yale University - New Haven, CT
- 4pm 
  • Pärt - Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
  • Penderecki - Agnus Dei from the Polish Requiem
  • Stravinsky - In Memoriam Dylan Thomas
  • Pärt - Te Deum for 3 choirs, strings, prep piano and tape
26 October 2008 - University Church Choir Sings Bach
This rarely heard cantata by J.S. Bach is based on the famous Lutheran chorale and was one of the earliest in his Leipzig cycle.
Battell Chapel - Yale University - New Haven, CT
- 10:30am 
  • Bach - Cantata BWV 38 "Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir"
7 December 2008 - University Church Choir Carol Service
Annual service of lessons and carols features music for choir with organ, guitar, harp, and marimba.
Battell Chapel - Yale University - New Haven, CT
- 8pm 
  • Hildegard - O virtus sapientiae
  • Rutter - What Sweeter Music
  • Sweelinck - Hodie Christus natus est
  • Conrad Susa - Carols and Lullabies "Christmas of the SW"
  • Poulenc - Quem vidistis pastores
  • Lauridsen - O magnum mysterium
14 December 2008 - Bach Advent Cantata
One of Bach's most famous chorale cantatas is here performed by soloists Mireille Asselin, Deborah Wong, Michael Sansoni, and Tian Hui Ng with instrumentalists from the Yale School of Music.
Battell Chapel - Yale University - New Haven, CT
- 10:30am 
  • Bach - Cantata BWV 61 "Nun komm der Heiden Heiland"
25 February 2009 - University Church Choir Sings Ash Wednesday
The music of Henry Purcell provides a meditative backdrop to the beginning of the Lenten season.
Battell Chapel - Yale University - New Haven, CT
- Time TBA 
  • Purcell - Hear My Prayer, O Lord
21 March 2009 - Elementary All-County Chorus
Westchester County School Music Association (WCSMA)
Dominick DiOrio, guest conductor
SUNY Performing Arts Center - Purchase, NY
- 4pm 
  • Melchior Franck - Da pacem Domine
  • G. F. Handel - Art thou troubled?
  • Dominick DiOrio - My Shadow
  • Brant Adams - Torah Orah
  • Kathy Armstrong - Songs from Gahu
29 March 2009 - Mozart's Great C Minor Mass
University Church Choir and Orchestra come together to offer this monumental unfinished work by the master composer.  

Featuring Mireille Asselin and Cecilia Leitner, sopranos; Daniel Molkentin, tenor; and Tian Hui Ng, bass;  Beverly Shangkuan and Tian Hui Ng, assistant conductors, and Dominick DiOrio, conductor.
Battell Chapel - Yale University - New Haven, CT - 10:30am 
  • Mozart - Mass in C minor - K 427 "Great"
HOLY WEEK MUSIC at the University Church at Yale

5 April 2009
- University Church Choir Sings Palm Sunday
Tawnie Olson's elegantly archaic setting of this pristine Latin text serves as a centerpiece for the beginning of Holy Week
Battell Chapel - Yale University - New Haven, CT
- 10:30am 
  • Tawnie Olson - Circuire Possum, Domine
9 April 2009 - University Church Choir Sings Maundy Thursday
Dominick DiOrio conducting the University Church Choir in his own setting of this verse from the Gospel of John.
Battell Chapel - Yale University - New Haven, CT - Time 7pm 
  • Dominick DiOrio - Humility*
12 April 2009 - University Church Choir Sings Easter Morning
Celebratory hymns with brass, drums, and organ are balanced by one of the most famous choral works of all time featuring a great baritone solo by Tian Hui Ng. 
Battell Chapel - Yale University - New Haven, CT - 10:30am 
  • Vaughan Williams "Easter" from Five Mystical Songs
3 May 2009 - Mendelssohn's Psalm 42
The University Church Choir sings this lush setting of "As the Deer longs for running water."  This is the choir's final offering of the season and not to be missed.
Battell Chapel - Yale University - New Haven, CT - 10:30am 
  • Mendelssohn - Der 42 Psalm "Wie der Hirsch schreit" - I.
Original Compositions
(* premiere)

20 September 2008 - Yale Schola Cantorum
Composers' New Works Reading Day

Simon Carrington conducting the Yale Schola Cantorum in a reading/recording session of my "O Virtus Sapientiae" for 3 sopranos and mixed chorus.  
Kathryn Aaron, Lucy Fitzgibbon, and Arianne Abela, sopranos

ISM Great Hall - Yale University - New Haven, CT - 10am
  • Dominick DiOrio - O Virtus Sapientiae *
23 November 2008 - The Rocks and Stones Shall Start to Sing
Doreen Alsen and The Finger Lakes Women's Chorale perform "I Will Arise" as part of their fall concert.  Other works by American composers.
Unitarian Church - Ithaca, NY - 5pm 
  • Dominick DiOrio - I Will Arise
15 February 2009 - LOVE REVEALED: Songs of Awakening
Sacra/Profana presents the music of Leonard Bernstein, W.A. Mozart, and contemporary American composers in an exciting program celebrating the Immaculata Church's 50th Anniversary.  Krishan Oberoi, conductor.  Featuring a selection from my Four Sacred Songs.
The Immaculata Church - University of San Diego - CA - 5pm
  • Dominick DiOrio - Four Sacred Songs - IV
22 February 2009 - University Church Choir 
Dominick DiOrio conducting the University Church Choir in the first of his Four Sacred Songs.
Battell Chapel - Yale University - New Haven, CT - 10:30am 
  • Dominick DiOrio - Four Sacred Songs - I *
15 March 2009 - Epiphany Lutheran Church Choir 
Robert Bolyard conducts the ELC Choir in the last of the Four Sacred Songs.
Epiphany Lutheran Church - Conyers, GA - 10:30am 
  • Dominick DiOrio - Four Sacred Songs - IV 
21 March 2009 - Elementary All-County Chorus
Westchester County School Music Association (WCSMA)
Includes performance of DiOrio - My Shadow
SUNY Performing Arts Center - Purchase, NY
- 4pm 
  • Melchior Franck - Da pacem Domine
  • G. F. Handel - Art thou troubled?
  • Dominick DiOrio - My Shadow
  • Brant Adams - Torah Orah
  • Kathy Armstrong - Songs from Gahu
9 April 2009 - University Church Choir Sings Maundy Thursday
Dominick DiOrio conducting the University Church Choir in his own setting of this verse from the Gospel of John.
Battell Chapel - Yale University - New Haven, CT - 7pm 
  • Dominick DiOrio - Humility*
24 April 2009 - Cornell Chorale Premieres Festival Anthems
Holland Jancaitis leads the Cornell Chorale in the premiere of DiOrio's setting of Milton's "At a Solemn Music" for Chorus, Organ, and Chimes.  
Sage Chapel - Cornell University - Ithaca, NY - 8pm
  • Dominick DiOrio - At a Solemn Music *
3 May 2009 - "Surprised by Joy"
Doreen Alsen leads the Finger Lakes Women's Chorale in performances of works by Dominick DiOrio, Francisco Nunez, Glenn McClure, and others.  
St. Catherine of Siena Church - Ithaca, NY - 4pm
  • Dominick DiOrio - Gloria from "Mass for the Easter Season"
9 May 2009 - Usiskin Cello Recital
Laura Usiskin premieres my new work for Cello solo, as well as other works for the instrument.  
Yale University - Sudler Hall - New Haven, CT - 5:30pm
  • Dominick DiOrio - Tarantella *
13 June 2009 - ATMOSPHERE: Land+Sea+Sky
Michael Kerschner leads the Young New Yorkers' Chorus in the premiere of my newly commissioned work for mixed chorus, as part of the Competition for Young Composers. Also featuring new music by Ryan Homsey and Alistair Stout, as well as compositions of Whitacre, Weelkes, Lili Boulanger, Grau, and Thompson.
St. Peters Church - 619 Lexington Ave - New York, NY - 8pm
  • Dominick DiOrio - Sitio *