James A. John, Queens College Choral Society and Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble

James A. John is an active conductor, writer, teacher and scholar. He is Associate Professor at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College—CUNY, as well as Artistic Director of the Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble in New York City. He has served as Guest Lecturer in conducting at Freiburg’s Hochschule für Musik, and has guest conducted and presented workshops throughout the United States and abroad. As Music Director of the Queens College Choral Society he has conducted many of the works in the choral-orchestral canon, and recently led performances of Brahms’s Requiem and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis in Japan with the Tokyo Oratorio Society.
John is Editor of the American Choral Review, published by Chorus America, and is releasing a forthcoming book on Johannes Brahms’s Nänie, Op. 82 with Edwin Mellen Press. He holds a DMA in conducting from the Eastman School of Music and received the 2002 Julius Herford Dissertation Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research from the American Choral Directors Association.