Mark Mangini, Music Director of the Greenwich Village Chamber Singers, has been one of New York’s most active choral conductors for over thirty years. After considering careers in both journalism and the theatre, Mr. Mangini began the serious study of music while an undergraduate at Amherst College. His teachers have included Iva Dee Hiatt, Fiora Contino, and Helmut Rilling in conducting, and Jon Humphrey, John Bullock, and Mara Waldman in voice.
Mr. Mangini is on the faculty of Kingsborough Community College of CUNY, and has conducted choruses at Hunter College of CUNY and Rutgers University. His repertoire spans music from the pre-Bach eras with historical instruments through numerous commissions of contemporary works, in addition to the more standard choral repertoire. He has been the Director of Music at Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights and the conductor of the Bach vespers series at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in New York City. Mr. Mangini is also the Music Director of the Choral Society of the Hamptons, for which he has received critical acclaim. He has led several joint performances with the Greenwich Village Chamber Singers and the Choral Society of the Hamptons, most notably the 2007 Lincoln Center performance with the Brooklyn Philharmonic of Lukas Foss’s monumental secular cantata, The Prairie. Mr. Mangini has prepared choruses for the Bel Canto Opera and the Encompass New Opera Theatre, and has served as a choral clinician for young choristers. A singer himself, he has taught voice privately throughout his career.
