92NY Community Chorus Winter Recital

Tony DiTaranto is a music educator, choral conductor, tenor, and IT support professional based in Queens, NY. He has performed in numerous operas, musicals, choirs, and barbershop quartets. He taught music at public schools in NYC and Westchester and led a community choir at Theater for the New City. He now co-owns a small business named “Pixel Noise” that provides enterprise IT support services locally and produces livestreams and podcasts. He serves on the faculty of the 92NY School of Music where he leads a contemporary classical choir. He also sings with the eVoco Voice Collective (evoco.vc)

Tony earned an M.A. in Music & Music Education from Teachers College, Columbia University (TC) and a B.S.Ed. in Music Education from Hofstra University. At Hofstra, he accepted the Dorothy Hoag Memorial Award for excellence in musical performance and became a licensed music teacher in New York and Connecticut. At TC, he led a graduate student vocal ensemble and taught applied voice lessons. He has sung with the Trinity Wall St. Downtown Voices (trinitywallstreet.org/downtownvoices). He has also studied and performed at the Manhattan School of Music, and Westminster Choir College.

Tony has studied vocal and applied music pedagogy with Dr. Jeanne Goffi-Fynn, conducting with Dr. David Fryling, and vocal technique with Gregory Mercer and Peter Van Derrick.