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Conductor and composer Dominick DiOrio (b. 1984) is Director of Choral Activities and Associate Professor of Music at Lone Star College-Montgomery, where he directs the Concert Choir and Chamber Singers and teaches the Ear-Training/Sight Singing curriculum. He is pursuing the DMA at Yale University (MMA '09) in choral conducting, where he studied with Marguerite L. Brooks and Simon Carrington. In October 2009, he travelled to Sweden to compete in the Eric Ericson Award, the top international competition for young choral conductors. A tenor, he sings professionally with the Houston Chamber Choir.

As a composer, Mr. DiOrio has been the recipient of many recent awards including the 2009 Young New Yorkers' Chorus Nathan Davis Prize in Composition, the 2007 Allen E. Ostrander International Trombone Composition Prize, and the 2006 Raymond W. Brock Memorial Student Composition Prize given by ACDA. He has received recent commissions for new choral music from Rhinebeck Choral Club, Commonwealth Youth Choirs, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, and Cornell University. His work is published with Alliance, Lorenz/Roger Dean, and Oxford.

At Yale, Mr. DiOrio was Director of the University Church Choir, Principal Assistant Conductor and Ensemble Manager of the Yale Camerata, and Co-Director of the Yale Divinity School (Marquand) Chapel Choir. He has served on Faculty at the Berkshire Choral Festival Montreal; as a Fellow at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival; as a Fellow at the Conductors Institute at Bard College, and as Conductor at the First Transient Glory Choral Symposium. He has participated in conducting master classes with Grant Gershon, Paul Hillier, Stephen Layton, Nicholas McGegan, Francisco Núñez, Helmuth Rilling, Kathy Saltzman Romey, and Robert Sund, among others. Recent awards include the Aidan J. Kavanagh Achievement Prize from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, given to a student in recognition of distinguished intellectual achievement in 2009, and a Graduate Fellowship from the National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi in 2006-2007. His doctoral research focuses on embedded tonality in the music of Krzysztof Penderecki, and he has been invited to present this research at the 2010 SW ACDA Regional Convention in Denver.

Mr. DiOrio received the Master of Music in Choral Conducting from Yale University in 2008 and the Bachelor of Music in Composition summa cum laude from the Ithaca College School of Music in 2006, where he studied with Dana Wilson and Gregory Woodward. He also studied conducting with Janet Galván, which led to his appearance as a finalist in the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) National Undergraduate Conducting Competition in Los Angeles in 2005. At that time, he also served as Assistant Conductor with the Ithaca Children's Choir and was Founder and Conductor of the Ithaca College Recital Chorus, which performed in two recitals under his direction.

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Conductor and composer Dominick DiOrio (b. 1984) is Director of Choral Activities and Associate Professor of Music at Lone Star College-Montgomery. He is pursuing the DMA at Yale University (MMA '09) in choral conducting, where he studied with Marguerite L. Brooks and Simon Carrington. At Yale, Mr. DiOrio was Director of the University Church Choir, Principal Assistant Conductor and Ensemble Manager of the Yale Camerata, and Co-Conductor of the Yale Recital Chorus. He has also served on Faculty at the Berkshire Choral Festival, Montreal. In October 2009, he travelled to Sweden to compete in the Eric Ericson Award, the top international competition for young choral conductors. He sings professionally with the Houston Chamber Choir.

As a composer, Mr. DiOrio has been the recipient of many recent awards including the 2009 Young New Yorkers' Chorus Nathan Davis Prize in Composition, the 2007 Allen E. Ostrander International Trombone Composition Prize, and the 2006 Raymond W. Brock Memorial Student Composition Prize given by ACDA. His work is published with Alliance, Lorenz/Roger Dean, and Oxford.

Mr. DiOrio has also received the Master of Music in Choral Conducting from Yale University and a Bachelor of Music in Composition summa cum laude from the Ithaca College School of Music. While at Ithaca, he studied conducting with Janet Galván, which led to his appearance as a finalist in the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) National Undergraduate Conducting Competition in Los Angeles in 2005. At that time, he also served as Assistant Conductor with the Ithaca Children's Choir and was Founder and Conductor of the Ithaca College Recital Chorus.

Please visit www.dominickdiorio.com for more information.

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