Anthony J. Maglione
conductor/composer/tenor/producer
Anthony J. Maglione
conductor/composer/tenor/producer
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Conductor/Composer/Producer Anthony J. Maglione is the Director of Choral Studies at the University of Houston, and Director of the Houston Symphony Chorus. He is a graduate of Westminster Choir College of Rider University, East Carolina University, and the University of California, Los Angeles.
Prior to his tenure in Houston, Maglione
Conductor/Composer/Producer Anthony J. Maglione is the Director of Choral Studies at the University of Houston, and Director of the Houston Symphony Chorus. He is a graduate of Westminster Choir College of Rider University, East Carolina University, and the University of California, Los Angeles.
Prior to his tenure in Houston, Maglione was Professor of Music and Director of Choral Studies at William Jewell College where he held the Robert H. McKee Chair of Music. Under his direction, William Jewell College choral ensembles performed at regional and national conferences, were twice named Runner Up (2nd Place) for the American Prize in Choral Performance College/University Division, and released two commercial recordings on Centaur and Albany records. From 2015 to 2025, he was Director of Music and Choirmaster at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Kansas City. In addition to his responsibilities in Kansas City, he served on the summer faculty of Westminster Choir College from 2008 to 2024.
An active composer, Maglione’s choral works are growing in popularity and are published on James Jordan’s “Evoking Sound” choral series through GIA Publications as well as “The Amanda Quist Signature Choral Series” on Gentry Publications. His music has appeared at state-, regional-, and national-level conventions, on TV, in video games, and has been recorded on Albany Records, Centaur Records, GIA Choral Works, and Gothic Records. In 2016, he was awarded the William Jewell College Spencer Family Sabbatical, a year-long fully funded sabbatical to compose a large-scale cantata, “The Wedding of Solomon,” which premiered at the 2018 American Guild of Organists National Convention. The Miami University Men’s Glee Club premiered Maglione’s “On Life” the at the 2019 National ACDA Conference. In early 2020, Verdigris Ensemble premiered his extended dramatic work “Dust Bowl” as part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Elevator Project in Dallas, Texas. “Dust Bowl” was recently revised and performed again at the Wyly Theatre in Dallas through a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts and several other organizations. Maglione was serving as Composer-In-Residence with Te Deum, a professional choir based in Kansas City from 2023-2025.
As a producer, Maglione lends his ears to recording projects around the country and recently received national attention through his production work with Sam Brukhman and Verdigris Ensemble on “Betty’s Notebook” by composer Nicholas Reeves. This ground-breaking programmable art music is the first of its kind and the first to be sold usingblockchain technology.
As a tenor, Maglione has appeared with Artefact Ensemble, Kansas City Baroque Consortium, Kantorei KC, The Same Stream, The St. Tikhon Choir, Sunflower Baroque, Spire Chamber Ensemble, and made his debut with Portland-based Capella Romana on the 2021–2022 season.
A sought-after clinician and frequent guest conductor, Maglione regularly teaches workshops and has conducted All-State and honor choirs in California, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.
GIA Publications, Inc.
Recent Review Highlights
GIA Publications, Inc.
For Anthony's works published on James Jordan's "Evoking Sound" choral series, please click below.
Salvation To All That Will is Nigh
(2020)
SATB, CT solo, piano
GIA Publications G-10353
Ave Maris Stella
(2019)
SATB div. a cap.
GIA Publications G-9885
Set Me As A Seal Upon Thine Heart
(2012)
SATB div., flute
GIA Publications G-8583
Out of the Dept
For Anthony's works published on James Jordan's "Evoking Sound" choral series, please click below.
Salvation To All That Will is Nigh
(2020)
SATB, CT solo, piano
GIA Publications G-10353
Ave Maris Stella
(2019)
SATB div. a cap.
GIA Publications G-9885
Set Me As A Seal Upon Thine Heart
(2012)
SATB div., flute
GIA Publications G-8583
Out of the Depths
(2009)
SATB div., Soprano Solo, organ, brass quintet, percussion
GIA Publications G-7818
Oh Thou Great Power, In Whom I Move (2008)
SATB div. a cap., clarinet
GIA Publications G-7698
The One and the Many
(2008)
SATB div. piano, viola
GIA Publications G-7407
She
(2006)
SSAATTBB div. a cap.
GIA Publications G - 7355
O Master, Let Me Walk With Thee
(2006)
SATB, org.
GIA Publications G-7343
Recent Review Highlights
Recent Review Highlights
Recent Review Highlights
- Conducting -
"The audience responded with enthusiastic applause. Maglione had to be dragged out to take more than one bow. This was a thoroughly enjoyable evening. Haydn played with a small ensemble is always a good time, and the first half featured works completely unknown to me. Hearing the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra conducted wit
- Conducting -
"The audience responded with enthusiastic applause. Maglione had to be dragged out to take more than one bow. This was a thoroughly enjoyable evening. Haydn played with a small ensemble is always a good time, and the first half featured works completely unknown to me. Hearing the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra conducted with such gripping authority was immensely satisfying." - KC Arts Beat
"William Jewell College may be a small school in a modest-sized town but music there is big time and their choir is world-class.…This is a flat-out gorgeous program with light, zippy Pärt; a sumptuously dark "Lord, Now Lettest" by Nicholas Reeves; and pinpoint dynamic control in Albert Becker's spiritually rapt "Ich bin die Auferstehung" all hitting you right off the bat.…If you'd fancy meeting up with one of America's very best college choirs, look no further." - American Record Guide
"I wasn’t familiar with the William Jewell College Concert Choir (based in Liberty, Missouri), but throughout the disc’s first four numbers–beginning with a superb rendering of Arvo Pärt’s oft-recorded Bogoroditse Devo–it was easy to be impressed, not only with the sound, ensemble, and responsiveness of the choir, but with the choice of music..." - classicstoday.com
- Composition -
“The first half of the concert concluded with a newly commissioned work, ‘I Am Silent’ by Anthony Maglione. Based on a poem by Rumi, it was a lovely complement to the other works on the program. Maglione combined the unique sound of the baroque instruments with vocal writing to perfectly express Rumi’s intense mysticism. The work at times was sparse and others gently propulsive and minimalist. It was a totally unique sound that makes me look forward to hearing more of Maglione’s music.” - Patrick Neas, KC Arts Beat
“The clarinet solo explores both high and low registers of the instrument, and stands in stark relief to the choir’s rhythmic simplicity by way of virtuosic runs and elegant ornaments. The piece builds to a thrilling moment in which the clarinet and choir join in rich chains of suspensions that are indicative of Maglione’s lush and lyrical compositional style.” - Lee Nelson, Melisma
“With its recorded accompaniment of student voices and sonorous chimes, Anthony J. Maglione’s “No More!” aroused memories of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s pioneering electronic collage “Gesang der Jünglinge” from the 1950s. From Maglione’s opening sonic collage the Pro Arte Voices quickly merged into an insistent choral ostinato that used the text “no more!” to protest the ever-increasing number of deaths by gun violence. A forceful, dramatic piece, “No More!” raised its fist against the lives destroyed each year by gun violence.” - Ken Herman, San Diego Story
"First was the setting of “Ave Maris Stella” by Anthony Maglione. Mr. Maglione, who is also director of choral studies at William Jewell College, paid great attention and devotion to the original hymn by having only the male voices sing the first verse in its original form. At the second verse, the female voices sang the plainsong while the men accompanied with a drone sound. The roles were reversed for the third verse. In each case, the drone was altered slightly. By the fourth and fifth verses, Mr. Maglione added modern harmonies while hints of the original plainsong were heard. These harmonies were wonderful to hear with soft dissonances accenting the plainsong in a most remarkable way. A lovely, high descant sounded ethereal. The sixth verse returned to plainsong with drone and the seventh verse a further return to the original plainsong.
Maglione had given us a short history of harmony. The Middle Ages witnessed an era of experimentation in music, first with drones as a rudimentary harmony, then expanding into parallel fifths and finally, polyphony. Even the musical notation we use today came into being at this time. Maglione’s ingenious, reverent treatment was delightful to hear and beautifully sung." - Paul Pattison, KC Arts Beat