Bio

About

JASON IANNUZZI, conductor

An artist who is passionate about the power of music to transform audiences and performers alike, Jason Iannuzzi has a robust background of choral conducting, vocal coaching, music direction, and extensive knowledge of the choral-orchestral repertoire.

Mr. Iannuzzi has served as Artistic Director for the Murrysville Festival Chorus and interim director for the Blazing Star Chorale, as well Assistant Conductor to the Bucks County Choral Society, leading that ensemble in a concert tour of Germany and the Czech Republic. As Assistant Conductor of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, Mr. Iannuzzi prepared the professional, symphonic chorus for performances with the Pittsburgh Symphony and world-renowned maestros including Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Leonard Slatkin, Mariss Jansons, Yan Pascal Tortelier and the late Richard Hickox.

Mr. Iannuzzi also has extensive experience as a director, vocal coach and musical director for opera and musical theater productions. He has served as chorus master and assistant conductor to both Westminster Choir College’s Opera Theatre and Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Music.

A widely respected and experienced music and drama educator, Mr. Iannuzzi has taught students at all levels in both public and private school settings for the past 25 years. He currently leads the thriving and regionally regarded choral program at Lexington High School, consisting of four curricular choirs, nine student-led a cappella groups, and over 250 singers. The breadth and sophistication of choral/orchestral repertoire and the performances by his LHS choruses rival many fine college programs. Under his direction, LHS choruses have presented several world premieres, the East Coast premiere of Michael Gandolfi’s Winter Light, and the first complete high school performance of James Whitbourn’s Annelies.

Mr. Iannuzzi’s choruses have collaborated with the Lexington and Concord Symphonies, Harvard University Choruses, New England Conservatory Choirs, Boston’s Back Bay Chorale, and renowned fiddler Eileen Ivers. His choirs have appeared in concert in Sweden, Finland, Estonia, China, Greece, and Bulgaria, and are preparing for their second appearance at Carnegie Hall. Their performances have been hailed as “extraordinary” and praised for their “exquisite music making” and “incredible demonstration of solidarity.”

Mr. Iannuzzi holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education summa cum laude from Westminster Choir College and a Master of Music degree in Conducting from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a student of Robert Page. He has sung professionally as a member of symphonic choruses for some 25 years.

Having acted as High School Repertoire and Resources Chair for the Eastern Region of the American Choral Directors Association from 2018 to 2020, Mr. Iannuzzi is currently serving as Treble Choirs R&R Chair for Massachusetts ACDA. He has presented at the National Convention for the National Association for Music Education, the Massachusetts chapter of ACDA and MICCA, and he has adjudicated honors auditions for Massachusetts Western Senior District Chorus and New Hampshire All-State Chorus. He was a contributor to Teaching Music Through Performance in Middle School Choir and Becoming Musical, both published by GIA. His choirs have appeared three times at the Massachusetts All-State Convention, as well as the Eastern Region Conference of the American Choral Directors Association. Mr. Iannuzzi has worked with outstanding high school musicians in Westminster’s High School Conservatory Chorale, Princeton High School’s instrumental music department, and Pittsburgh’s Junior Mendelssohn Choir. He was a 2009 nominee as Pennsylvania’s Educator of the Year.