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7 Wednesday / October 7, 2015

NOTUS: Contemporary Vocal Ensemble

08:00 pm
Auer Hall, Simon Music Center, 200 S. Jordan Avenue
http://www.music.indiana.edu/events/?e=71781

NOTUS: Contemporary Vocal Ensemble

Dominick DiOrio, director
Michaela Calzaretta, conductor

Repertoire
Pärt: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten for string
orchestra and bell (1977)
Britten: Ad majorem Dei gloriam (A.M.D.G.): Seven settings
of Gerard Manley Hopkins for unaccompanied SATB (1939)
Muhly: Bright Mass with Canons for chorus and organ (2005)

About the Director

Conductor and composer Dominick DiOrio is assistant professor of choral conducting at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he directs NOTUS: IU Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, an auditioned chorus specializing in music of the last fifty years. He mentors graduate choral conducting majors and also teaches courses in score reading, choral literature, and undergraduate and graduate conducting. Under his leadership, NOTUS has performed at an interest session for the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Central Division Conference and as an invited ensemble on the Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) Artist Series at Carnegie Hall. This Spring, NOTUS will be the Featured Ensemble-in-Residence for the Composers Track at the ACDA National Conference in Salt Lake City.

Called “a forward-thinking young composer filled with new ideas, ready to tackle anything,” DiOrio was named Best Composer 2011 by HoustonPress for Klytemnestra, his chamber opera with Divergence Vocal Theater and librettist Misha Penton. His second opera, The Little Blue One with librettist Meghan Guidry, had its premiere in April 2014 in Boston with Juventas New Music Ensemble and musical director Lidiya Yankovskaya. Of the opera, the Boston Examiner wrote, “The Little Blue One defies the widespread notion that contemporary classical music is inaccessible; DiOrio’s score abounds with gorgeous lyricism, supported by compelling harmony.” He has been awarded prizes in composition from ASCAP and ACDA, among many others. His work is published with Alliance, Boosey & Hawkes, Carl Fischer, Éditions à Couer-Joie, Edition Peters, G. Schirmer, Lorenz, Mark Foster, Oxford and Santa Barbara.

DiOrio earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting from the Yale School of Music, studying with Marguerite Brooks, Simon Carrington and Jeffrey Douma. His DMA research on Krzysztof Penderecki’s St. Luke Passion is published in The Choral Scholar. He also earned the MMA and MM in conducting from Yale and the BM in composition summa cum laude from Ithaca College, where he studied with Gregory Woodward, Dana Wilson and Janet Galván. He currently serves as Treasurer on the Executive Board for the National Collegiate Choral Organization (NCCO) as well as on the advisory boards for the Choral Arts Initiative, the Princeton Pro Musica, and the Young New Yorker’s Chorus (YNYC).

Cost: Free

For more information contact:

Sarah Slover
(812) 855-9846
[email protected]

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