Musical Staff
- Joseph D'Eugenio, Artistic Director and Conductor
- Allan Conway, Pianist
- Paul
Fletcher, Principal and Bass Vocal Coach
Joseph D'Eugenio
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Joseph D’Eugenio, conductor and Artistic Director, began his career as a pianist. He received a Bachelor of Music degree from the Hartt School of Music in piano performance and has studied with pianists Paul Rutman, Luiz de Moura Castro, Watson Morrison, and May Yeung. Throughout the years, Mr. D’Eugenio has served as a professional accompanist for voice and instrumental recitals as well as for several choral organizations and events, including the CONCORA Summer Workshops. Mr. D’Eugenio has maintained a private studio for more than 15 years, and has taught on the faculty of the Bethwood Suzuki School in Woodbridge. In 2003-2004, he served as an Adjunct Instructor of Music at Naugatuck Valley Community College and conducted the Naugatuck Valley Community College Choir.
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Mr. D’Eugenio received a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Connecticut where he studied choral conducting with Peter Bagley, and orchestral conducting with Peter Sacco and Jeffrey Renshaw. He has pursued additional conducting studies at the Dennis Keene Festival and with Richard Coffey, Artistic Director of CONCORA (Connecticut Choral Artists). Mr. D’Eugenio founded and conducted the Grace Notes Women’s Choir from 1994-1998.
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Mr. D’Eugenio has worked as an organist and choir director at several churches throughout Connecticut. Currently, he is the organist and choir director at the First Congregational Church of Cheshire, where he conducts the Senior and Youth Choirs in addition to overseeing an extensive music program. Previously, Mr. D’Eugenio worked as an organist and choir director at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Norwalk, where he founded and directed the Vespera Choral Music Series.
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Mr. D’Eugenio has been Conductor and Artistic Director of the Greater Middletown Chorale since 1998. Under his direction, the Chorale has performed throughout Connecticut and has established a repertoire of large choral works with orchestra that include Mozart’s Requiem, Schubert’s Mass in A-Flat, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Bach’s Ein feste Burg, Brahms’ Schicksalslied, and Cherubini’s Requiem in C Minor. In May 2004, the Chorale joined forces with the Naugatuck Valley Community College Choir for performances of Haydn’s Mass in Time of War and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with pianist Allan Conway. In July 2004, the Chorale sang for Governor M. Jodi Rell’s inauguration ceremony, and was invited to sing again for the opening of the holiday open house at the Governor’s Residence in December. The Chorale has sung live on the Brad Davis Radio Show, and recently made its Bushnell Theatre debut in a performance of “Dear Friends: Music of Final Fantasy” with Grammy-award winning composer and conductor, Arnie Roth.
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Allan Conway is in constant demand as a pianist and accompanist, with extensive experience in the choral, vocal, operatic and instrumental literature. His commanding technical facility at the keyboard, ease and familiarity with a wide array of repertoire, sensitive interpretations, and keen sense of musical collaboration inform his many and varied performances.
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At the University of Connecticut at Storrs, Mr Conway is accompanist for the Choral Ensembles. He is Music Director, rehearsal and performance pianist for UCONN Opera Theater. In the vocal area, he assists with Performance classes, Literature and Diction classes, and works with numerous individual singers for lessons, coachings, Master Classes, recitals, competitions and auditions. He accompanies the many auditions for prospective voice students, and works frequently with student and faculty instrumentalists in recital, recording, and for juries. On occasion he has played with the University Orchestra.
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In 1999, Mr Conway toured throughout Italy with Cappella Cantorum. He has been accompanist at numerous High School choral festivals and performed with many singers in venues throughout the region and across the country, including a 1997 performance of the Durufle Requiem at Carnegie Hall. He has served as accompanist for the Greater Middletown Chorale since 1998.
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Mr Conway received his Bachelor of Music Degree in Piano Performance from the Hartt School of Music, where he studied with Raymond Hanson. He was recipient of the prestigious Harold Bauer Memorial Scholarship. More recently, he has studied with Richard Wm Donohue of Cromwell, CT. He has performed extensively in recital, as well as soloist with orchestra.
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Active in the liturgical field also, Mr Conway has served numerous churches from an early age. He is presently Music Director and Organist of Christ Lutheran Church in Middletown, CT; as well as Organist and Choir Director at Emanuel Synagogue in West Hartford, CT, a position he has held since 1977. He is also organist for GodSong, a sacred chamber choir based in Manchester, CT, where he resides.
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Baritone Paul Laurence Fletcher’s singing has been described by The Hartford Courant as being “…at once youthful, virile, impassioned and seductive…” and by The Greenwich News as “…a flowingly graceful voice with an earnest, convincing, and rich quality.”
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Mr. Fletcher is active in a diverse repertoire that includes many major works and he appears with leading ensembles and theaters throughout Connecticut and in neighboring states. His performances as a featured soloist with such groups as Orchestra New England, The American Classical Orchestra, New Haven Symphony, Yale Collegium Musicum, Pro Arte Singers, and many others have been enthusiastically praised for their expressive depth and power as well as for distinctive vocal beauty and stylistic poise. His background in choral music is extensive and stylistically wide-ranging as well, from avid high school and amateur choral activities through collegiate and graduate studies to professional ensemble singing. He has appeared regularly with the Chorale as a guest soloist and ensemble member since December of 2000, and was appointed as Principal Vocal Coach in 2004.
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Recent solo engagements include performances of the title role in Mendelssohn’s Elijah with The Stonington Choral Society, Brahms’ Ein deutches Requiem, Mozart’s Solemn Vespers and Dvorak’s Mass in D with The Greater Middletown Chorale, Beethoven’s Mass in C with Con Brio Choral Society, Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem with Con Brio and Mystic River Chorale, Haydn’s Mass in Time of War with Eastern Connecticut Symphony, Messiah and Durufle’s Requiem with The United Chorale, and Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs with the St. Theresa Concert Choir.
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Mr. Fletcher is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and has performed leading and supporting roles in productions at Lambs’ Theatre (Times Square), Theatre 315 (New York City), Downtown Cabaret Theatre, Theatre on the Green, Hartford Stage, The Shubert Opera, Opera Theatre of Connecticut and other regional theaters, with Tony (West Side Story), Macheath (Threepenny Opera), Lancelot (Camelot), Emile deBecque (South Pacific) and Don Quixote (Man of La Mancha) among his credits.
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He is an honors graduate of Abilene Christian University (Bachelor of Music Education) and won a full graduate opera scholarship to The Hartt School, where he took top prizes for operatic and art song performance while earning his Master of Music Degree in Voice.
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