Musical Director
Mark Mangini, Music Director and conductor of the Choral Society of the Hamptons and the Greenwich Village Singers, has been one of New York’s most active choral conductors for 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. Since then, 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 faculties of Kingsborough Community College and Hunter College of CUNY, and has taught at 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 conducted an all-Mozart program at the 2005 Music Festival of the Hamptons, and in the summer of 2007, led the Greenwich Village Singers, the Choral Society of the Hamptons, and the Brooklyn Philharmonic in two gala performances of Lukas Foss’s monumental secular cantata The Prairie. He recently prepared the chorus for the Encompass Opera Theatre’s New York production of Virgil Thomson’s Four Saints in Three Acts, and was the guest choral clinician for the Hampton Music Educators Association’s 2009 conference. Mr. Mangini also performs as a professional singer and has taught voice privately throughout his career. He is the grandson of the late Alfred A. Scheffer, the Amagansett architect whose work can be seen on the South Fork
