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Dr. James Maroney |
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Dr. James Maroney, Associate Professor of Music, conducts the Concert Choir, Pop/Jazz Singers, and A Cappella Ensemble, in addition to teaching voice and ear training.
As a conductor, Dr. Maroney has led a variety of vocal and instrumental ensembles in professional, school, and church settings. Prior to his arrival at ESU, he was Assistant Director of Choral Activities at Western Carolina University, and before that founded and directed the Connecticut-based choir Harmonia. Since Dr. Maroney’s arrival at ESU in Fall 2001, the choral ensembles have grown considerably in stature, and the two select groups – A Cappella Ensemble and Pop/Jazz Singers – have toured every spring to places such as Washington (DC), Boston, the Ohio Jazz Festival, Toronto, and overseas tours of Europe and China. Dr. Maroney recently secured several grants toward the commission and world-premiere performance of a work by noted composer David Lantz for the ESU Concert Choir. In February 2008 he was conductor for the Carbon County Festival Chorus, and in November 2009 he will conduct the Monroe County Festival Chorus. Dr. Maroney is a choral adjudicator for North American Music Festivals and Fiesta-Val, and served as President of the Pennsylvania Collegiate Choral Association from 2005 to 2008. He has also served as a music reviewer for Choral Journal.
As a tenor, Dr. Maroney has concertized extensively in the eastern US in recital and oratorio, in addition to performing over 20 operatic roles, and performs annually in recital at ESU. In Fall 2007, as a grant recipient of the President’s Research Fund, Dr. Maroney gave several lecture-recital performances of Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Copland’s Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson. He is one of the foremost authorities on music for voice and classical guitar, having authored a book on the subject - Music for Voice and Classical Guitar, 1945-1996 (McFarland & Co.) - as well as an article in the September 2003 issue of Journal of Singing. In 2006 Dr. Maroney was awarded a grant through the Pennsylvania Faculty Professional Development Council to perform concerts of that genre at various colleges in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. In Spring 2001, while on the music faculty at Western Carolina University, he received a grant to give several lecture-recital performances in the Southeast of Schubert's song cycle Die schöne Müllerin.
Dr. Maroney holds degrees from Columbia University, Hartt School, Ithaca College, and Western Connecticut State University. |