Joseph Amante y Zapata, DMA
Director of Choral Activities, CCRI
Phone.....825-2409
Office......3166
Campus...Knight
Email.....  amante@ccri.edu

 


 


CCRI choirs 2002-2009


 


Edgardo


 

Emiliano Zapata, great-grand uncle


 

    

Dr. Joseph J. Amante y Zapata holds a B.A. in Church Music from Point Loma Nazarene University, an M.M. in Choral Conducting from New England Conservatory of Music, and a D.M.A. in Choral Music from the University of Southern California.  He has studied with John Glenn Paton, Joseph Flummerfelt, Lorna Cooke deVaron, Rodney Eichenberger, Gustav Meier, the late Daniel Pinkham and the late Leonard Bernstein at Seranak, Tanglewood Music Center.

Originally from California, Dr. Amante directed several church music programs and community choirs in both San Diego and Los Angeles, one choir appearing on the CBS show 48 Hours.  He taught high school and elementary school music in Los Angeles, and served as music director for a popular 100+ member chorus known in Hollywood circles.

 

Dr. Amante directed a parish choir and several community choirs in Massachusetts—The Westford Chorus, The Towne Singers, a group he founded, and The Merrimack Valley Chorale.  Dr. Amante performed the bass solo of Mozart’s Requiem with the Westford Chorus, the baritone solo in Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols for both the Westford Chorus and Fall River Symphony, and bass solo in the Brahms’ Liebeslieder for the Chaminade Club (RI) and CCRI.

 

Currently, Dr. Amante is assistant professor of music and Director of Choral Activities at Community College of Rhode Island.  His choirs have performed Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Handel’s Messiah, Fauré’s Requiem, Duruflé’s Requiem, Mozart’s c-minor Mass and Solemn Vespers, Corigliano’s Fern Hill, Rutter’s Magnificat, Britten's Ceremony of Carols, Ellington’s Sacred Concerts and premiered Michael Kregler's Dona nobis pacem (2009).

 


Joseph Amante y Zapata  CCRI, 400 East Avenue, rm. 3166, Warwick  RI  02886-1807  401.825.2409
amante@ccri.edu


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Old Stuff...

 

2007 ACDA National Convention pics

 

2005 summer recording pics

 

2005 Choir pics

 

December 11-12, 2004, Mozart Mass in c-minor with Westford Chorus

 

October 16, 2004, Higher Education Day

 

April 23-26, 2004, CCRI tour to Canada and choral international festival

October 1, 2003, URI Diversity Week lecture

September 21, 2003, Vivaldi's Gloria

2002&2003 Beethoven 9th at MENC