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NOTUS vocal ensemble to perform this weekend

Jacobs School of Music’s NOTUS: Contemporary Vocal Ensemble will perform in its final concert of the year at 8 p.m. Friday in Auer Hall.

Repertoire includes: “A Vietnamese Requiem” by P.Q. Phan, “Lay a garland” composed by Robert Pearsall, “After-Glow” by IU Masters student Corey Rubin and “Stravinsky Refracted” by director Dominick DiOrio.

DiOrio is a conductor and assistant professor of choral conducting at the music school, according to a Jacobs press release. He directs NOTUS, an auditioned chorus specializing in music from the past 50 years.

In addition to teaching courses in score reading, choral literature and undergraduate and graduate conducting, he also mentors graduate choral conducting majors.

DiOrio earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting from the Yale School of Music. He studied with Marguerite Brooks and Jeffrey Douma., among others.

He currently serves as ?treasurer on the executive board for the National Collegiate Choral Organization and on the advisory boards for the Choral Arts Initiative, the Princeton Pro Musica and the Young New Yorkers’ Chorus.

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