Michael J. Diorio, DMA
Church of the Redeemer
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
(610) 525-2486, x22
mdiorio@theredeemer.org

Dr. Michael Diorio currently serves as Interim Organist and Director of Music at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.  Here he oversees the five choirs dedicated to service through worship, concerts, and tours.  As an active recitalist, Dr. Diorio has performed extensively throughout the United States as well as in England, Germany, France, and Austria where he was presented with a citation by the Mayor of Innsbruck for an outstanding public performance at the Jesuiten Kirche. Recent playing engagements include the Strasbourg Cathedral in France, choir tours at Salisbury Cathedral, Wells Cathedral and Chichester Cathedral; other concerts performances with the American Boy Choir, and the National Convention of the Organ Historical Society.  

A New Jersey native, Dr. Diorio began organ lessons at the age of seventeen and later received his Bachelor of Music degree in organ performance from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, while studying under Professor Eugene Roan.  Upon completing his undergraduate study he entered the Institute of Sacred Music and the School of Music at Yale University, where he earned his Master of Music degree in organ with Dr. Martin Jean. While at Boston University Dr. Diorio was a pupil of Boston Symphony Organist James David Christie, where he received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in organ performance, summa cum laude.  In 2006 his edition of the Messa Hyemalis in A of Franz Xaver Richter (1709-1789) is published by the German publisher Carus-Verlag of Stuttgart.  The edition received its American premier at St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue by John Scott and the St Thomas Choir of Men & Boys and its European premier at the Strasbourg Cathedral in France, where Richter served as Kapellmeister from 1768-1789.

Presently, Dr. Diorio teaches as adjunct faculty member of the music department at The Lawrenceville Prep School in New Jersey. He is also working as an editor with Oxford University Press on the first edition of the Requiem by Richter.  Perviously, Dr. Diorio held the post as Organist and Choirmaster Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. 

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