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Music Faculty By:
Department:
Choral Conducting
  • Adjunct Professor of Music, Jacobs School of Music

Education:

  • D.M. , Providence College, 1985
  • M.A. , Harvard, 1948
  • B.S. , Johns Hopkins University, 1946

Background:

Currently a Graduate Choral Mentor, Thomas Dunn received a diploma in Orchestral Conducting from the Amsterdam Conservatory in 1955. His teachers include Virgil Fox and E. Power Biggs (organ); Mme. Renee Longy, Nicholas Nabokov, and Walter Piston (theory); Ifor Jones, Anton van der Horst and Robert Shaw (conducting); and Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord).

Professor Dunn has worked as the conductor of the Festival Orchestra of New York, the Cantata Singers of New York, and as the conductor laureate of the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston. He served as the editor in chief of E.C. Schirmer Music Publishers and received the Handel and Haydn Society Medal in 2002.

Professor Dunn was a professor at Boston University, University of Pennsylvania, Westminster Choir College, Ithaca College, Peabody Conservatory, and Stanford University. His recordings can be found on the RCA Victor, Decca, and Sine Qua Non Records labels.


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