Overview
Joe Lerangis performs regularly as a conductor and tenor internationally and across the United States. As the Priscilla E. Browning Director of Choral Music at Cornell, they conduct the university's two flagship choirs, the Chorus and the Glee Club, lead domestic and international tours, conduct music for university-wide events, and generally oversee the choral program. Previously, Joe has worked as Director of Choral Activities at Colgate University, Director of Music at Spiritus Christi Church in Rochester, NY, and Assistant Conductor of both the Yale Glee Club and the Yale Camerata. They have guest conducted choirs around the United States, and given clinics with vocal ensembles of all styles and sizes. As a conductor of instrumental music, Joe was a fellow at the Miami Music Festival and the Cortona Sessions for New Music, and conducted the Yale Philharmonia, New Music New Haven, Lviv Philharmonic, Györ Philharmonic, Cornell Wind Symphony, and Cornell Symphony Orchestra. Joe has studied Mongolian music for over a decade, and has received fellowships from the J. William Fulbright Foundation and the American Center for Mongolian Studies to support their work. In 2017, they reached the final round of Mongolia’s nationally-televised pop idol competition, winning the Judge’s Choice Award and the Soyol Elch-Tugeegch Duuchin award from the Mongolian Ministry of Culture for their performance of Mongolian songs. While at Yale, Joe received both the Robert Shaw Prize in Conducting and the Friedmann Thesis Prize. A champion of new music, they regularly commission and premier new works, and they have conducted several international premieres of Mongolian repertoire in particular. Joe is a co-founder of New Muses Project, and holds previous degrees from Yale School of Music, the Eastman School of Music, Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies (Hopkins-Nanjing Center), Kenyon College, and most proudly, the Bronx High School of Science.
