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Dominick DiOrio

Chair, Department of Choral Conducting
Professor of Music (Choral Conducting)
Director, NOTUS

Dominick DiOrio
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Phone:
812-855-4657
Email:
ddiorio@iu.edu
Website:
https://dominickdiorio.com
Department:
Choral Conducting
East Studio Building, JS333

Education

  • D.M.A., Doctor of Musical Arts, Yale School of Music, 2012
  • M.M., Master of Music, Yale School of Music, 2008
  • B.M., Bachelor of Music, Ithaca College, 2006

Biography

Dominick DiOrio is professor of music in choral conducting and chair of the Choral Conducting Department at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he joined the faculty in 2012 and serves as director of NOTUS, IU's storied contemporary vocal ensemble.

Recognized with The American Prizes in both Choral Composition (2014) and Choral Performance (2019, with NOTUS), he is an imaginative, enthusiastic, and energetic conductor and composer who has won widespread acclaim for his contributions to American music.

DiOrio also serves as the fourteenth artistic director and conductor of the Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia, one of the most historic choral organizations in the United States. As part of those duties, 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. His artistic vision for the Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia has been regularly supported with multiple grants from the William Penn Foundation, the Presser Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

DiOrio’s combined role as a composer-conductor has led to many unique opportunities and collaborations. In April 2024, he had the honor of writing original music for William Shatner, part of a spoken-word performance at IU’s Memorial Stadium moments before the total solar eclipse. DiOrio conducted the collaboration, which featured Mr. Shatner, NOTUS and 20 instrumentalists from the IU Jacobs School of Music. DiOrio’s guest conducting appearances regularly feature his original compositions, including with civic and professional ensembles such as the Choral Arts Society of Washington (SOLARIS), Houston Chamber Choir (I Am), Choral Arts Initiative (All Is), and the Young Naperville Singers (Young Today).

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 60 published works have appeared at major venues around the world including the Sydney Opera House, Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall—as well as internationally in Austria, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Italy, Norway, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, and the U.K.

He composes for musicians of all ages and experiences and maintains an active writing schedule—completing over 70 commissions in the last decade. Some of his 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, including Macalester, Oberlin, Princeton, Smith, and the Universities of Michigan, Oregon, and Illinois.

DiOrio’s love for contemporary music is reflected in his conducted repertoire, including such path-breaking works from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as James MacMillan Seven Last Words, Steve Reich The Desert Music, Alfred Schnittke Requiem, Sarah Kirkland Snider Mass for the Endangered, Joel Thompson Seven Last Words of the Unarmed, and Krzysztof Penderecki St. Luke Passion, which he prepared for the composer in November 2017. Equally at home with music of earlier eras, he has also conducted choral-orchestral performances of Bach Magnificat, Haydn Mass in Time of War, Mozart Great C Minor Mass, Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs, and Leonard Bernstein Chichester Psalms, among others.

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 his leadership during the pandemic, he was honored with NCCO's inaugural Distinguished Service Award. DiOrio also previously served as chair of ACDA’s Composition Initiatives Standing Committee and as a member of the Board of Directors for Chorus America.

He earned a Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting from the Yale School of Music, as well as an M.M.A. and an M.M. in Conducting from Yale and a B.M. in Composition summa cum laude from Ithaca College. He proudly credits his mentors Janet Galván, Simon Carrington, and Marguerite Brooks for serving as model leaders and for making him the person he is today.

 

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