Welcome to the website of composer and conductor
Joseph Gregorio.

Joseph Gregorio writes lyrical, harmonically rich, and rhythmically organic acoustic music in elegantly balanced forms.  His work is grounded in the traditional principles of western European art music but is infused with numerous American influences.  Gregorio composes for voices and for instruments; his output includes song, choral, solo, chamber, and orchestral music.

On the podium, Gregorio is an exacting conductor who insists on technical excellence and emotionally, artistically engaging performance from the musicians with whom he collaborates.  He has led collegiate, semi-professional, community, and high-school ensembles.

Past performances

arranged in chronological order by of date of composition
all works published by Areté Music Imprints unless otherwise indicated

Five Vignettes (2001) for piano solo
Performance in Ithaca, NY by Emily Green

Ah, vous dirai-je, maman (2001) arranged for SSAA chorus a cappella
Performance in Ithaca, NY by members of the Cornell University Chorus (Joseph Gregorio, cond.)

Berceuse d’Alsace (2001) arranged for SSAA chorus a cappella
Performance in Ithaca, NY by members of the Cornell University Chorus (Joseph Gregorio, cond.)

Roulez jeunes gens roulez (2001; published 2017 by Walton Music [formerly published 2003 by Treble Clef Music Press) arranged for SSAA chorus, piano, and body percussion
Performances and television/radio broadcasts throughout the United States and abroad by the Cornell University Chorus - Scott Tucker, cond. | Women’s Voices Chorus - Mary Lycan, cond. | USC Oriana Women’s Choir - Daniel Roihl, cond. | Gettysburg College Women's Choir - Sharon Davis Gratto, cond. | Concerto Della Donna - Iwan Edwards, cond. | Ensemble Vocal Senior De La Salle - Robert Filion, cond. | University of Iowa School of Music Women's Chorale - Jacquelyn Zwiefel, cond. | New Mexico Music Educators' Assoiation All-State Treble Choir - Sharon A. Hansen, cond. | Wellesley College Choir - Lisa Graham, cond. | Saint Mary's College Women's Choir - Nancy Menk, cond. | Chorale Les Harmoniques - Olivier Renier, cond.

Dona nobis pacem (2002, published 2005 by E. C. Schirmer) for TTBB chorus a cappella; arranged for SSATTBB chorus a cappella (also published 2005 by E. C. Schirmer)
Radio broadcasts and performances throughout the United States and abroad by the Cornell University Glee Club - Scott Tucker and Robert Isaacs, conds. | Washington Men's Camerata - Frank Albinder, cond. | Yale Camerata - Marguerite Brooks, cond. | Chor Leoni - Diane Loomer, cond. | Sacramento State University Men’s Chorus - Don Kendrick, cond. | Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus - Joseph J. Buches, cond. | Sonoma County Chamber Singers - Robert Hazelrigg, cond. | Rutgers University Glee Club - Patrick Gardner, cond. | Denver Gay Men's Chorus - Ben Riggs, cond. | Calvary Episcopal Church Choir (Pittsburgh, PA) - Alan Lewis, cond. | Sarteano Chamber Choral Conducting Workshop (Tuscany, Italy) | Rooke Chapel Choir (Bucknell University) - William Payn, cond. | Baylor University Men's Choir - Randall Bradley, cond. | Dakota Men's Ensemble - Steven Grives, cond. | 2008 St. Olaf Christmas Festival - Christopher Aspaas, cond. | Boston Gay Men's Chorus - Reuben Reynolds, cond. | UMKC Canticum Novum - Jeremy Mims, cond. | Penn State Glee Club - Christopher Kiver, cond. | International Orange Chorale - Zane Fiala, cond. | Augustana Choir - James Johnson, cond. | Millikin Men's Choir - Ted Hesse, cond. | Seraphic Fire - Patrick Quigley, cond. | Battell Chapel Choir (Yale University) - Christoph Schlechter, cond. | University of Maryland Men's Chorus - Stephen Holmes, cond. | Avon Old Farm School Riddlers - Bryan Zaros, cond. | Cantare! (Presbyterian College Men's Choir) - Ron Davis, cond. | Bridgewater State University Chamber Singers - Steven Young, cond. | Canadian Men's Chorus - Greg Rainville, cond. | New York Young Men Singing - Gene Peterson, cond | Vox Aurum - Ian Goldin, cond. | Heartland Men's Chorus - Joseph P. Nadeau, cond. | Swensk Ton - Nils Kjellström, cond. | West Chester University Men's Chorus - David DeVenney, cond. | Riverside Choral Society - Patrick Gardner, cond. | Susquehanna Chorale - Linda Tedford, cond. | Mansfield University Concert Choir - Peggy Dettwiler, cond. | Empire City Men's Chorus - Matthew Oltman, cond. | Weerter Mannenkoor - Tim Schulteis, cond. | HARMONIE Lindenholzhausen - Martin Winkler, cond. | University of Tennessee Men's Chorale - Gene Peterson, cond. | Seton Hill University Una Voce (Mark A. Boyle, cond.) | Illumni Men's Chorale - Chris McCafferty, cond. | Consort Chorale - Allan Robert Petker, cond. | Ithaca Gay Men's Chorus - Sam Kwan, cond. | University of Maryland Men's Chorus - Ianthe Marini, cond. | Winthrop University Chorale - Jeremy Mims, cond. | Minot State University Choir - Emerson Eads, cond.

Chocolate Chip Cookies (2002) for SATB chorus a cappella
Performances in New Haven, CT by Yale Pro Musica (Marguerite Brooks, cond.) and Deerfield, MA by Deerfield Academy Madrigal Choir (Daniel Roihl, cond.)

Querer es poder (2003) for SATB chorus a cappella
Performances in New Haven, CT (Yale Pro Musica - Marguerite Brooks, cond.) | Interlochen, MI (World Youth Honors Choir - Jeffrey Douma, cond.)

Alleluia (2004, formerly published [2005] by Treble Clef Music Press) for SSAA chorus a cappella
Performances throughout the United States and abroad by the Cornell University Chorus – Scott Tucker, cond. | Finger Lakes Women’s Chorale – Doreen Alsen, cond. | Yale Camerata – Marguerite Brooks, cond. | Sonoma County Chamber Singers – Robert Hazelrigg, cond. | Voci di Sorelle – Ruth Moreland, cond. | Peninsula Women’s Chorus – Martin Benvenuto, cond. | Concerto Della Donna – Iwan Edwards, cond. | St. Bonaventure’s College Camerata – Maria Conkey, cond. | Albright Angels – Adlai Binger, cond. | University of Pittsburgh Women’s Choral Ensemble – Lorraine Milovac, cond. | West Chester University Women’s Chorus – David DeVenney, cond. | Orange County Women’s Chorus – Eliza Rubenstein, cond. | Durango Women’s Choir – Linda Mack, cond.

Passage (2004) for chamber orchestra
Performance in San Francisco, CA by San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble (Nicole Paiement, cond.)

Super montes (2005) for SATB chorus a cappella
Performances in Santa Rosa, CA (Sonoma County Chamber Singers – Robert Hazelrigg, cond.) and San Francisco, CA

Suite (2005) for viola solo
Performances in San Francisco, CA (Jodi Levitz, Charith Premawardhana, Wendy Clymer) | Italy (Jodi Levitz and Wendy Clymer) | Dallas, TX (Jen Tyler) | Gettysburg, PA (Mary Hammann)

Voices (2005) for voice and piano
Performances in San Francisco, CA by Rebecca Plack, soprano and Marilyn Swan, piano, and West Hartford, CT by Julie Gregorio, soprano and Victor Evans, piano

Requiem aeternam (2005) for orchestra and SATB chorus
Performance in Gettysburg, PA by Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra and Gettysburg Schola Cantorum (Norman Nunamaker, cond.)

Love me sweet (2005) for voice, violin, guitar and cello
Performance in Los Angeles, CA by Lika Miyake and the Pasadena Strings

A Christmas Diptych (2005; published 2008 by E.C. Schirmer [formerly titled An Advent Diptych]) for SATB chorus a cappella
Performances in New Haven, CT (Yale Camerata – Marguerite Brooks, cond.) | Santa Rosa, CA (Sonoma County Chamber Singers – Robert Hazelrigg, cond.) | Canon Beach, OR (Choral Conductors’ Retreat Workshop Concert – Vicky Thomas, cond.) | Walla Walla, WA (Whitman College Chamber Singers – Jeremy Mims, cond.) | Huntington Beach and Newport Beach, CA (John Alexander Singers – John Alexander, cond.) | Bellevue, Lynnwood, and Seattle, WA (Sacred Music Chorale – Mark Adrian, cond.) | Elizabethtown, PA (Elizabethtown College Concert Choir – Matthew Fritz, cond.) | Scranton, PA (Marywood University Chamber Singers – Rick Hoffenberg, cond.)

Five Whitman Songs (2006; published 2018 by E.C. Schirmer) for voice and piano
Performances in Berkeley, CA (Debi Wong, mezzo-soprano; Elizabeth Ingber, piano) and San Francisco, CA (Katie Schmidt, mezzo-soprano; Jonathan Mann, piano) | Performances of excerpts in San Francisco, CA (Zheng Cao, Joshana Erenberg, and Jenna Yokoyama, mezzo-sopranos; Rebecca Marques, Rebecca Plack, sopranos; Mack McCray, Marilyn Swan, Regina Schaffer, Timothy Bach, Amy Fang, pianists) | New York, NY (Julie Gregorio, soprano; Raphael Fusco, piano) | West Hartford, CT (Julie Gregorio, soprano; Victor Evans, piano)

Set me as a seal (2006; published 2007 by E. C. Schirmer) for SATB chorus a cappella
Performances in New York, NY and Valley Falls, NY (C4 – Joy Chia, cond.) | San Francisco, CA (San Francisco Conservatory Chorus – David Conte, cond.) | Claremont, CA (Claremont Chamber Choir – Charles Kamm, cond.) | Allendale, MI (Grand Valley State University Arts Chorale – Ellen Pool, cond.) | Milton, MA (Yale Alumni Chorus – Jeffrey Douma, cond.)

Stille Nacht (Silent Night) (2006; published 2016 by E.C. Schirmer) arranged for SATB chorus a cappella
Performances in San Francisco, CA by the San Francisco Bach Choir (Thomas Folan, cond.) and Albany, NY by Ensemble Companio (Michael Weinberg, cond.)

In the Presence of Redwoods (2007) for orchestra
Performances in San Francisco, CA (San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra – Andrew Mogrelia, cond.) and College Park, MD (University of Maryland Repertoire Orchestra – Tiffany Lu, cond.)

Talisman (2007; rev. 2009) for violoncello solo
Performances in Gettysburg, PA by Miranda Henne and San Francisco, CA by Emil Miland

Two Meditations (2007) for piano solo
Performances of excerpt (Out the window) in San Francisco, CA and Oakland, CA – Regina Schaffer | New York City, NY – James Bester | London, England – Paul Cassidy

Lament for a Wayward Nation (2007) for string orchestra
Performance in Gettysburg, PA by Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra (Norman Nunamaker, cond.)

Sudden Light (2007; published 2008 by E.C. Schirmer) for TTBB chorus a cappella
Performances in Ithaca, NY and throughout California (Cornell University Glee Club – Scott Tucker, cond.) | New Brunswick, NJ; Northampton, MA; Minneapolis, MN; and throughout the United Kingdom and Holland (Rutgers University Glee Club – Patrick Gardner, cond.) | OH, KY, NC, GA, and FL (Singing Men of Ohio – Bradley Naylor, cond.) | Hillsville, VA and Wytheville, VA (Wytheville Community College Choir – Cynthia Jackson, cond.) | Whidbey Island, WA (Male Ensemble Northwest)

Reminiscences (2008) for guitar solo
Performances of excerpts in San Francisco and San Mateo, CA (Brian Stone); Eugene, OR (Oren Fader)

Exsultate Deo (2008) for 24-part (SATB x 6) chorus a cappella
Performances in CA, CT, and HI by the Yale Glee Club (Jeffrey Douma, cond.)

Martes (2008; published 2015 by Walton Music) for SSAA chorus a cappella
Performances in Menlo Park, CA and Santa Clara, CA (Peninsula Women’s Chorus  - Martin Benvenuto, cond.) | Riga, Latvia and Atlanta, GA (Atlanta Young Singers Young Women’s Ensemble – Paige F. Mathis, cond.) | Ithaca, NY and on tour throughout Mexico and Guatemala (Cornell University Chorus – Robert Isaacs, cond.) | Danville, CA (Bella Voce of Acalanes High School – Bruce Lengacher, cond.) | Notre Dame, IN (Saint Mary’s College Women’s Choir – Nancy Menk, cond.) | Chicago, IL (21st Century Chorale – Martha Swisher, cond.) | Lawrence, WI (Lawrence University Cantala – Phillip Swan, cond.)

The Fullness of Peace (2008) for baritone and string quartet
Performances in San Jose, Palo Alto, Windsor, and San Francisco, CA by the Ives Quartet and baritones Eugene Brancoveanu and Austin Kness | radio broadcast on KRCB | Excerpts arr. for piano and baritone in Ithaca, NY (Tyler Herman, baritone; Emily Green, piano)

A Dedication (2009; published 2009 by E.C. Schirmer) for SA chorus and piano
Performances in Gettysburg, PA (Gettysburg College Children’s Choir – Sharon Davis Gratto, cond.) | Northampton, MA (2011 Commencement Choir of Mount Holyoke College – Kimberly Dunn Adams, cond.) | Princeton, NJ (Princeton Girlchoir Ensemble – Steve Kim, cond.) | Hartland, WI (7th Grade Treble Choir of Lake Country School – Jacob Notch, cond.) | West Point, NY (West Point Glee Club – Constance Chase, cond.) | West Chester, PA (West Chester University Women’s Chorus – David DeVenney, cond.) | Amherst, MA (Amherst College Chorus – Gregory Brown, cond.)

Three Moods (2009) for trumpet and piano
Performance of excerpts in Eugene, OR at the 2009 Oregon Bach Festival Composers’ Symposium (Brian McWhorter, trumpet; Kathryn Christensen, piano) | San Francisco, CA (Tucker Jessup, trumpet; Regina Schaffer, piano) | Gettysburg, PA (Zachary Hartzell, trumpet; Timothy Braband, piano)

Love, thricewise (2009; published 2016 by Galaxy Music) for SATB chorus a cappella
Performances in Costa Mesa, CA (John Alexander Singers – Robert Istad, cond.) | Tours, France [at the Florilège Competition] and Madison, WI (University of Wisconsin-Madison Concert Choir – Beverly Taylor, cond.) | Fullerton, CA (John Alexander Singers – John Alexander, cond.) | Kalamazoo, MI and Chicago, IL (Western Michigan University Chorale – Kimberly Dunn Adams, cond.) | Greeley, CO (University of Northern Colorado Chamber Choir – Jill Burgett, cond.) | New York, NY [excerpt] (Central Bucks West Varsity Singers – Joseph Ohrt, cond.) | Swarthmore, PA (Swarthmore College Garnet Singers – Joseph Gregorio, cond.) | Boston, MA (New England Conservatory Concert Choir – Jonathan Richter, cond.) | San Francisco and Oakland, CA (International Orange Chorale of San Francisco – Zane Fiala, cond.) | Farmville, Williamsburg, and Richmond, VA (Piedmont Singers of Central Virgina – Helena von Rueden, cond.) | Carrboro, NC (Cantari – Stephen A. Futrell, cond.) | Ithaca, NY (Cayuga Vocal Ensemble – Melissa Rooklidge, cond.)

City Trees (2010) for SSAA chorus a cappella
Performances in Washington, DC by The Capital Hearings and Lafayette, CA by Acalanes High School Bella Voce (Bruce Lengacher, cond.) | Ann Arbor, MI by the University of Michigan Women’s Glee Club (Paolo Debuque, cond.)

A Strange Sweetness (2011) for SATB chorus a cappella
Performances in Walla Walla, WA (Whitman College Chamber Singers – Jeremy Mims, cond.) | Palo Alto, CA and Alameda, CA (Soli Deo Gloria – Allen Simon, cond.) | Brookline, MA; New Canaan, CT; and Madison, NJ (Ensemble Companio – Joseph Gregorio, cond.) | New York, NY (All Souls’ Choir – Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez, cond.) | Swarthmore, PA (Swarthmore College Garnet Singers – Joseph Gregorio, cond.)

Music for Springtime (2011; published 2016 by Imagine Music Publishing) for woodwind quintet
Performances in West Chester, PA and Oxford, OH (2012 annual conference, International Double Reed Society) by Quintsylvania Winds | Tahlequah, OK (Relevents Wind Quintet) | Provo, UT (Orpheus Winds Quintet) | Ann Arbor, MI [excerpt] (Merryl Monsard, flute; Melissa Bosma, oboe; Spencer Prewitt, clarinet; Eric Rutherford, bassoon; Caroline Steiger, horn

To Mary (2011) for baritone and piano
Performance in West Chester, PA by Brian Chu, baritone and Gregory Fiorentino, piano

Look back on time with kindly eyes (2011) for 12-part (SATB x 3) chorus a cappella
Performances in Brooklyn and New York, NY by Choral Chameleon (Vince Peterson, cond.) and Hanford, WA by the Mid-Columbia Mastersingers (Justin Raffa, cond.)

O magnum mysterium (2011) for SATB chorus a cappella
Performances in New York, NY and Brooklyn, NY (Choral Chameleon / Chameleonic – Vince Peterson, cond.) | Swarthmore, PA (Swarthmore College Chamber Choir – Joseph Gregorio, cond.) | San Francisco, Sonoma, San Rafael, and Healdsburg, CA (North Star Vocal Artists – Sanford Dole, cond.) | Pomona, CA (Kellogg Chamber Singers – Iris Levine, cond.) | Glen Ellen, CA and Sonoma, CA (Valley of the Moon Chamber Ensemble – Beth Carter, cond.) | Hamburg, Germany (Vokalensemble Lux Aeterna – Christoph Schlechter, cond.)

The Maid of Culmore (2012; published 2017 by Walton Music) arranged for SATB chorus a cappella
Performances and broadcasts in New Canaan, CT; Bayonne, NJ; Ithaca, NY; Millersville, PA; Schenectady, NY; Gettysburg, PA; and Wellfleet, MA (Ensemble Companio – Joseph Gregorio, cond.) | Boston, MA (Tufts University Chamber Singers – Jamie Kirsch, cond.) | Cork, Dublin, and Galway, Ireland (Tufts University Chorale – Jamie Kirsch, cond.) | Swarthmore, PA (Swarthmore College Chamber Choir – Joseph Gregorio, cond.) | Madison, WI (University of Wisconsin-Madison Concert Choir – Beverly Taylor, cond.) | Sacramento and Folsom, CA (Sacramento Master Singers – Ralph Hughes, cond.) | Oyster Bay, NY and Seaford, NY (eVoco Voice Collective – David Fryling, cond.) | Athens, GA (University of Georgia Hodgson Singers – Daniel Bara, cond.) | Parkersburg, WV (Parkersburg Choral Society – Luke Zyla, cond.) | Pittsburgh, PA (North Penn High School Chamber Singers – Matthew Klenk, cond.)

Wine Songs (2012) for SATB chorus and harp or piano
Performances in New York, NY (Choral Chameleon – Vince Peterson, cond.; Michelle Gott, harp | West Village Chorale – Colin Britt, cond.) and Swarthmore, PA (Swarthmore College Garnet Singers – Joseph Gregorio, cond.; Elizabeth Steiner, harp)

O vos omnes (2012) for SATB chorus a cappella
Performances in State College, PA (Penn State Concert Choir – Christopher Kiver, cond.) | Brooklyn, NY; Wilton, CT; and Philadelphia, PA (Ensemble Companio – Joseph Gregorio, cond.) | Madison, WI (University of Wisconsin-Madison Concert Choir – Beverly Taylor, cond.)

Frog went a-courtin’ (2012) arranged for SATB chorus a cappella
Performances in Brookline, MA; New Canaan, CT; Madison, NJ; Millersville, PA; Schenectady, NY; Gettysburg, PA; and Wellfleet, MA (Ensemble Companio – Joseph Gregorio, cond.) | Boston, MA (Tufts University Concert Choir – Jamie Kirsch, cond.; Chorus Pro Musica – Jamie Kirsch, cond.) | Mount Union, PA (2015 PMEA District IV Chorus – Mark A. Boyle, cond.) | Boston, MA (New England Conservatory Youth Camerata – Jonathan Richter, cond.) | Minot, ND (2019 Northwest International Festival of Music Honor Choir – Joseph Gregorio, cond.)

An Exhortation (2013) for SAB chorus and piano
Performances in Gettysburg, PA by the combined choirs of the Gettysburg Children’s Choir Festival (Brent Talbot, cond.) and Guilford, CT by the CT-ACDA Middle School Honor Choir (Jonathan Richter, cond.)

When Music Sounds (2013) for TTBB chorus and piano; also arranged for SSAA chorus and piano (2013), SATB chorus and piano (2014), and SATB chorus and chamber ensemble (2014)
Performances in State College, PA, at the 2014 ACDA Eastern Division Conference (Baltimore, MD), and the 2014 Intercollegiate Men’s Chorus National Seminar (New Brunswick, NJ) by the Penn State Glee Club (Christopher Kiver, cond.) | Swarthmore, PA (Swarthmore College Chorus – Joseph Gregorio, cond.) | Norfolk, CT (Norfolk Chamber Music Festival Chorus & Orchestra – Minji Kim, cond.) | Pittsburgh, PA (Duquesne University Men’s Chorale – Brendan Barker, cond.) | Claremont, CA (Claremont Concert Choir – Charles W. Kamm, cond.) | Dublin, NH (Walden School Low Chorus – Sarah Riskind, cond.)

Advent Reflections (2013; published 2017 by E.C. Schirmer) for SATB chorus and harp
Performances in Lewisburg, PA and Scranton, PA by the Bucknell University Rooke Chapel Choir (William Payn, cond.) and Elizabeth Asmus, harp

Four Miniatures (2014) for clarinet and English horn
Performance in West Chester, PA by Duo del Sol (Karen Dannessa, clarinet, and Henry Grabb, English horn)

Thy Eternal Summer (2014) for SATB chorus a cappella
Performances in Claremont, CA by the Claremont College Chamber Choir (Charles Kamm, cond.) and Swarthmore, PA by the Swarthmore College Chorus (Joseph Gregorio, cond.)

The Hall (2014) for SSA chorus and piano
Performances in University Park, PA (Concordia Singers – Lou Ann Shafer, cond.; Timothy Shafer, piano) and at the 2015 ACDA National Conference in Salt Lake City, UT (Concordia Singers – Sarah Shafer, cond.; Joanne Yang, piano) | Newark, NJ (2018 NJMEA All-State Treble Chorus – Mark A. Boyle, cond; Stefanie Watson, piano)

To My Brother (2015) for TTBB chorus a cappella
Performances throughout the United States and abroad by Cantus and in Toronto, ON (Canadian Men’s Chorus – Greg Rainville, cond.) | Bloomington, MN (MPLS (imPulse) – Samuel Grace, cond.) | Valencia, CA (CalArts Vocal Ensembles – Tanner Pfeiffer, cond.) | Commerce, TX (Texas A & M University-Commerce Men’s Chorus – Randall Hooper, cond.)

Prelude (2015) for piano solo
Performance in San Francisco, CA by Scott Foglesong

Two Friends Like Fireflies (2015) for SSAA chorus a cappella
Performances in Fresno, CA (Soli Deo Gloria Women’s Chorale – Julie Carter, cond.) and Appleton, WI (Cantala – Phillip Swan, cond.) | San Luis Obispo, CA (Canzona Women’s Ensemble – Jill Anderson, cond.)

Go Out With Joy (2016) for SATB chorus a cappella
Performances in Dayton, OH by the University of Dayton Chorale (Robert Jones, cond.)

Prayers (2018) for SATB chorus a cappella
Performances in Laurelhurst, West Seattle, and Olympia, WA by The Esoterics (Eric Banks, cond.)

Red Azalea (2019) for SSAA chorus and piano
Performances in Pittsburgh, PA by the Duquesne University Pappert Women’s Chorale (Caron Daley, cond.) and Notre Dame, IN by the Saint Mary’s College Women’s Choir (Nancy Menk, cond.)

Much of Gregorio’s choral music can be heard here.

arranged alphabetically by title of work recorded and in reverse chronological order by date of release

Alleluia

Live (2010) | Concerto Della Donna (Iwan Edwards, cond.)

City Trees

Opening Statement (2013) | The Capital Hearings (Dileep Srihari, dir.)

Dona nobis pacem (TTBB version)

When I Was a Young Man: More Classics for Men’s Chorus (2009) | Washington Men’s Camerata (Frank Albinder, cond.)

Vespers 2009 | Millikin University Men’s Choir (Ted Hesse, cond.)

My Spirit Sings of Wondrous Things (2008) | Choirs of St. Olaf College

Hear The Voice (2007) | Rutgers University Glee Club (Patrick Gardner, cond.)

Holiday Delights (2007) | Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus (Joseph J. Buches, cond.)

Pacem (2005) | Cornell University Glee Club (Scott Tucker, cond.)

Four Miniatures

Windward (2015) | Duo Del Sol (Karen Dannessa, clarinet; Henry Grabb, English horn)

Love, thricewise

Imagined Corners (2015) | University of Wisconsin-Madison Concert Choir (Beverly Taylor, cond.)

American Voices (2014) | John Alexander Singers (John Alexander, cond.)

Sudden Light

Sudden Light (2016) | Rutgers University Glee Club (Patrick Gardner, cond.)

To My Brother

To My Brother (2015) | Cantus

When Music Sounds (TTBB & piano version)

When Music Sounds (2016) | Penn State Glee Club (Christopher Kiver, cond.)

A Christmas Diptych, released in E.C. Schirmer’s Spring 2008 New Issue, was chosen as one of Creator Magazine’s 2009 “Select 20″ anthems.

Dona nobis pacem
Released in E.C. Schirmer’s Fall 2007 New Issue, Dona nobis pacem received four very favorable reviews:

• one by Gregory Hall in the journal of the Contemporary Record Society (full review reprinted here):
“[...] Gregorio approaches his task with the intelligence and integrity of a pre-twentieth-century composer. His is largely instinctual music; while beautifully crafted, it has nothing of the contrived about it. Its consistency as well, in an era of eclecticism that touches all music, is most admirable. [...] His feeling for modal diatonic harmony is completely natural…and because consonance and dissonance are in many ways unified in this work, Gregorio points us graciously towards new realms of harmonic development.”

• one by Alan Lewis in the November 2007 issue of the Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians:
“In a year when peace seems ever-more elusive, an ambitious setting of the three words, ‘Dona nobis pacem’ by the young composer Joseph Gregorio is particularly appealing. [...] Even in its mixed-voices version, the piece conjures up for me overtones of the Biebl Ave Maria; the harmony is lush, the lines elegant, the overarching shape (gradual growth from low and quiet to very high and very loud, then a brief dying-away) clear. [...]“

• one in the November 2008 issue of Creator Magazine, which chose Dona nobis pacem as one of its 2008 “Select 20″ anthems:
“What a great piece of choral music. [...] a wonderful addition to the repertoire. Well done. Highly recommended.”

• and a review in the Winter 2007-08 issue of The Choral Room.

Frog went a-courtin’ was described by Alice Parker as “a charming arrangement…wonderful fun!”  It was also praised in the Boston Globe by Matthew Guerrieri as “skillfully refracting the tune into a cappella elaborations while efficiently underlining the pageant of Frog and Mouse’s wedding and their sudden, circle-of-life demise.”

Look back on time with kindly eyes was praised by Lauren Alfano, writing for icareifyoulisten.com, as a “particularly exciting” piece on Choral Chameleon‘s November 2011 concert, Tempus.

Love, thricewise, recorded by the John Alexander Singers on their 2014 album American Voices, was described in the March 2015 issue of the Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians as having set Witter Bynner’s text “perfectly” and as the reviewer’s favorite cut on the album.

Out the window (from Two Meditations) received a favorable review by Thomas Deneuville. Deneuville describes the piece as “a beautiful landscape in sfumato.”

Set me as a seal
Released in E.C. Schirmer’s Fall 2010 New Issue, Set me as a seal has received several excellent reviews. It was described by Alan Lewis in the March 2011 issue of the Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians as a “lovely setting of this time-honored wedding text.” It was also selected one of Creator Magazine’s “Select 20″ anthems of 2011, praised there as “simply put, gorgeous…”. The Winter 2010-11 issue of The Choral Room likewise hailed it as “the perfect cathedral anthem. [...] Gregorio sets this popular text…with great effect.”  In the November 2012 issue of the Iowa Choral Directors Association’s Sounding Board, Thomas Holm wrote that it “deserves to be added to the repertoire. The architecture is balanced, the musical line is compelling from beginning to end, and there is a perfect tension between linear counterpoint and vertical harmony.”

Wine Songs, premiered by Choral Chameleon in March 2012, earned praise for Gregorio’s compositional voice in an examiner.com review by Seth Gilman.  Gilman writes, “Overall, the effect of this set was of an admirable compositional restraint and parsimony. What Mr. Gregorio had to say in conceit and material was said with specificity, brevity, and wit; nothing was obscured by the temptation of a lesser composer to satisfy too many perceived priorities or impulses.”

Biography

A native of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Joseph Gregorio is equally at home composing and conducting.  Gregorio’s compositions have been commissioned by numerous performers, ensembles, and organizations including Cantus, the American Choral Directors Association, The Esoterics, and the Ives Collective.  His music 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, Jordan Hall, the National Cathedral, and the Basilica di San Marco in Venice. Gregorio was  selected as a 2015 grantee by the Ann Stookey Fund for New Music; he was also named the 2011-2012 composer-in-residence of New York City ensemble Choral Chameleon.  His music is published by Areté Music Imprints, E. C. Schirmer Music Company, Walton Music, and Imagine Music Publishing, 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 Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus, the Penn State Glee Club, the Rutgers University Glee Club, the Cornell University Glee Club, The Capital Hearings, and Duo Del Sol.

Gregorio is also active as a conductor.  He served as director of choirs at Swarthmore College from 2013-2023. From 2011-2016 he directed 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 2004-2006 as the assistant conductor of the San Francisco Conservatory Chorus, and was assistant conductor of the San Francisco Bach Choir from 2005-2007.

Gregorio has studied composition with Steven Stucky, David Conte, Richard Brodhead, and Matthew Greenbaum, and undertaken additional study with Alice Parker.  He was a Presidential Fellow at Temple University, where he earned a D.M.A. in music composition.  Gregorio also 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 with Marguerite Brooks and Simon Carrington, and received the Edward Stanley Seder, Richard French, and Hugh Giles prizes in choral conducting; while at Cornell, he was the recipient of the Ellen Gussman Adelson scholarship in music.  Gregorio has participated in the Oregon Bach Festival’s Composers’ Symposium and the summer program of the European American Musical Alliance.  He 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.

Awards

Grantee, 2015 Ann Stookey Fund for New Music
Third place, 2013 American Prize competiton (choral composition, student category)
Winner, 2012-13 POLYPHONOS Competition (national composer category)
Winner, 2010 Yale Glee Club Emerging Composers’ Competition
Winner, 2009-10 Pacific Chorale Young Composers’ Competition
Winner, 2007 San Francisco Conservatory Jim Highsmith Competition for orchestral composition
Third place, 2006 Diana Barnhart American Song Competition
First place, 2005 San Francisco Conservatory Art Song Composition Competition
Top Honors, 2002 Waging Peace Through Singing Project

Publishers

Areté Music Imprints

E.C. Schirmer Music Co.

Walton Music

Imagine Music Publishing

Links

Ensemble Companio

Swarthmore College Choirs

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joseph@josephgregoriomusic.com

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To see, hear, and purchase Gregorio’s scores, please visit
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