The music of Joseph Gregorio has been broadcast on American Public Media’s Performance Today and WQXR’s Choral Mix, has garnered prizes in several competitions, and has been performed in the United States and abroad by numerous and renowned soloists and ensembles at such venues as the Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the National Cathedral, and the Basilica di San Marco in Venice. Gregorio recently received a 2015 Commissioning Grant from the Ann Stookey Fund for New Music and commissions from Cantus and the ACDA Women’s Commission Consortium. He served as 2011-2012 composer-in-residence of New York City ensemble Choral Chameleon, and as 2005-2006 composer-in-residence of the Sonoma County Chamber Singers. His music is published by Areté Music Imprints, E. C. Schirmer Music Company, Walton Music, and the National Collegiate Choral Organization, and has been recorded by the choirs of the St. Olaf Christmas Festival, Concerto Della Donna, the Washington Men's Camerata, the John Alexander Singers, the Rutgers University Glee Club, the Millikin University Men’s Choir, the Cornell University Glee Club, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Concert Choir, The Capital Hearings, and Duo Del Sol.
Also active as a conductor, Gregorio is director of choirs at Swarthmore College. He is director of chamber choir Ensemble Companio, which he founded in 2011 and which won the 2012 American Prize in choral performance. Gregorio has co-conducted the Yale Recital Chorus and the Yale Repertory Chorus, and has guest-conducted the Swarthmore College Orchestra, the Cornell University Glee Club, and the Mansfield University Concert Choir. He served from 2004 to 2006 as the assistant conductor of the San Francisco Conservatory Chorus and was assistant conductor of the San Francisco Bach Choir from 2005 to 2007.
Gregorio has studied composition with Steven Stucky, David Conte, Richard Brodhead, Alice Parker, and Matthew Greenbaum. He holds a M.M. in composition with departmental honors from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, a M.M. in choral conducting from Yale University, and a B.A. magna cum laude in music from Cornell University. While at Yale, he studied conducting with Marguerite Brooks and Simon Carrington, and received the Edward Stanley Seder, Richard French, and Hugh Giles prizes in choral conducting. Gregorio was a professor of music theory and musicianship at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music from 2008-2009. He also taught music theory at Temple University from 2011-2012, where he is presently a candidate for the D.M.A. in composition and was the recipient of a Presidential Fellowship.
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