Joe Lerangís

DIRECTOR OF CHORAL PROGRAMS

Joe Lerangís has appeared as a conductor and tenor both internationally and across the United States. They are Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Music at Cornell, where they oversee the university's choral programs and conduct the Cornell University Glee Club and Chorus. 

Prior to Cornell, Joe's main appointments include serving as Director of Choral Activities at Colgate University, Director of Music at Spiritus Christi Church in Rochester, NY, and Assistant Conductor of both the Yale Glee Club and the Yale Camerata. Previously, Joe spent several years in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, where they completed a Fulbright fellowship and founded and developed the first music department in a general education secondary school in Mongolia to offer youth choir, orchestra, and band programs. In 2017, they reached the final round of Mongolia’s nationally televised pop idol competition, winning the Judge’s Choice Award and an award from the Mongolian Ministry of Culture. Joe has studied choral conducting with William Weinert, Marguerite Brooks, Jeffrey Douma, and André J. Thomas, and orchestral conducting with Donald Schleicher, Mark Gibson, Brad Lubman, Larry Rachleff, and Carl St. Clair. They hold previous degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies, Nanjing University, Kenyon College, and the Bronx High School of Science.