Jason Iannuzzi is serving in his fifteenth year as Director of Choruses at Lexington High School, where he conducts the Chamber Singers, Concert Choir and Madrigal Singers; oversees a large student-directed a cappella program; and teaches AP Music Theory. Mr. Iannuzzi holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education summa cum laude from Westminster Choir College and a Master of Music degree in Conducting from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a student of Robert Page. An experienced music and drama educator, Mr. Iannuzzi has taught students at the middle, high school and college levels in both public and private school settings for the past twenty years. He has served as Artistic Director for the Murrysville Festival Chorus and interim director for the Blazing Star Chorale, as well Assistant Conductor to the Bucks County Choral Society, leading that ensemble in a concert tour of Germany and the Czech Republic. As Assistant Conductor of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, Mr. Iannuzzi prepared the professional, symphonic chorus for performances with the Pittsburgh Symphony and world-renowned maestros including Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Leonard Slatkin, Mariss Jansons, Yan Pascal Tortelier and the late Richard Hickox.
Mr. Iannuzzi also has extensive experience as a director, vocal coach and musical director for opera and musical theater productions. He has served as chorus master and assistant conductor to both Westminster Choir College’s Opera Theatre and Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Music.
Under Mr. Iannuzzi's direction, Lexington High School choruses have presented a number of world premieres, the East Coast premiere of Michael Gandolfi's Winter Light, and the first complete high school performance of James Whitbourn's Annelies, and have collaborated with the Lexington and Concord Symphonies, Harvard University Choruses, New England Conservatory Choirs, Boston's Back Bay Chorale and renowned fiddler Eileen Ivers. His choirs have appeared in a number of important Boston-area venues, as well as on tour in Sweden, Finland, Estonia, China, Greece and Bulgaria. Lexington High School honors choruses have appeared twice in concert at New York’s storied Carnegie Hall.
Having acted as High School Repertoire and Resources Chair for the Eastern Region of the American Choral Directors Association from 2018 to 2020, Mr. Iannuzzi is currently serving as Treble Choirs R&R Chair for Massachusetts ACDA. He has presented at the National Convention for the National Association for Music Education, the Massachusetts chapter of ACDA and MICCA, and he has adjudicated honors auditions for Massachusetts Western Senior District Chorus and New Hampshire All-State Chorus. He was a contributor to Teaching Music Through Performance in Middle School Choir and Becoming Musical, both published by GIA. His choirs have appeared three times at the Massachusetts All-State Convention, as well as the Eastern Region Conference of the American Choral Directors Association. Mr. Iannuzzi has worked with outstanding high school musicians in Westminster’s High School Conservatory Chorale, Princeton High School’s instrumental music department, and Pittsburgh’s Junior Mendelssohn Choir. He was a 2009 nominee as Pennsylvania’s Educator of the Year. A native of New Hampshire, Mr. Iannuzzi currently resides in Lexington, MA with his wife, Allison (music teacher at Hastings Elementary School) and their three sons--Joshua, Luke and Noah.
Mr. Iannuzzi also has extensive experience as a director, vocal coach and musical director for opera and musical theater productions. He has served as chorus master and assistant conductor to both Westminster Choir College’s Opera Theatre and Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Music.
Under Mr. Iannuzzi's direction, Lexington High School choruses have presented a number of world premieres, the East Coast premiere of Michael Gandolfi's Winter Light, and the first complete high school performance of James Whitbourn's Annelies, and have collaborated with the Lexington and Concord Symphonies, Harvard University Choruses, New England Conservatory Choirs, Boston's Back Bay Chorale and renowned fiddler Eileen Ivers. His choirs have appeared in a number of important Boston-area venues, as well as on tour in Sweden, Finland, Estonia, China, Greece and Bulgaria. Lexington High School honors choruses have appeared twice in concert at New York’s storied Carnegie Hall.
Having acted as High School Repertoire and Resources Chair for the Eastern Region of the American Choral Directors Association from 2018 to 2020, Mr. Iannuzzi is currently serving as Treble Choirs R&R Chair for Massachusetts ACDA. He has presented at the National Convention for the National Association for Music Education, the Massachusetts chapter of ACDA and MICCA, and he has adjudicated honors auditions for Massachusetts Western Senior District Chorus and New Hampshire All-State Chorus. He was a contributor to Teaching Music Through Performance in Middle School Choir and Becoming Musical, both published by GIA. His choirs have appeared three times at the Massachusetts All-State Convention, as well as the Eastern Region Conference of the American Choral Directors Association. Mr. Iannuzzi has worked with outstanding high school musicians in Westminster’s High School Conservatory Chorale, Princeton High School’s instrumental music department, and Pittsburgh’s Junior Mendelssohn Choir. He was a 2009 nominee as Pennsylvania’s Educator of the Year. A native of New Hampshire, Mr. Iannuzzi currently resides in Lexington, MA with his wife, Allison (music teacher at Hastings Elementary School) and their three sons--Joshua, Luke and Noah.
Boston-based conductor, singer, and music educator, Sarah Labrie, is a Choral Director at Lexington High School in Lexington, MA. She was previously a Choral Director at Stoughton High School in Stoughton, MA for eight years. Ms. Labrie also serves as the Artistic Director of Quincy Choral Society. In Spring 2023 she was recognized for significant contributions to Arts and Culture as Artistic Director of Quincy Choral Society, and was awarded the prestigious Abigail Adams Award from the City of Quincy and Mayor Thomas P. Koch.
Outside of conducting and teaching, she actively sings with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and Boston Symphony Orchestra, Viatores Mundi (Croatia), Sarteano Musica Sacra Choir (Italy), Sarteano Reunion A Cappella Ensemble (Mexico), Vox Futura (Professional Recording Studio Choir), Labyrinth Choir, and in other numerous other choral performances throughout North America and Europe. She has also sung professionally in choirs with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Pops, Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Labrie's 2014 choral performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony with Westminster Choir and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra was nominated for a Grammy. Solo orchestral performances include Ralph Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music with the Farmington Valley Symphony, and the Pie Jesu from Maurice Duruflé's Requiem the Pioneer Valley Symphony. She is also a lead singer for The Boston Rock and Soul Revue, is a cantor at St. Leonard's of Port Maurice in the North End (Boston's oldest church built by Italian immigrants), and a regular chorister at Trinity Church (Copley). Sarah is in high demand as both a choral and solo musician.
Ms. Labrie graduated Summa Cum Laude from Westminster Choir College with a B.M. in Music Education, and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Messiah University with both an M.M. and C.A.G.S. in Choral Conducting. She has had the pleasure of studying conducting and rehearsal technique with Simon Carrington, Brian O'Connell, Dr. Joe Miller, Dr. Amanda Quist, Tom Shelton, Dr. Joy Meade, and Dr. Rachel Cornacchio. She studied voice with Dr. Rochelle Ellis and jazz voice with Ellen Cogen.
Ms. Labrie is the Treble Repertoire and Resources Chair for the Massachusetts chapter of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), and is an active member of the Massachusetts Music Educator Association (MMEA), the Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association (MICCA), and the National Association for Music Educators (NAfME.) She has been on the Executive Board of the Southeastern Massachusetts MMEA chapter for 5 years, and has managed and adjudicated at both the Senior and Junior levels for 7 years. In both 2021 and 2022, Ms. Labrie was chosen to conduct the Junior Mixed SEMSBA Festival Choir. In 2024 she will be conducting the MMEA Eastern District Junior Mixed Choir, and in 2025 she will be conducting the MMEA Southeastern District Junior Treble Choir.
Outside of conducting and teaching, she actively sings with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and Boston Symphony Orchestra, Viatores Mundi (Croatia), Sarteano Musica Sacra Choir (Italy), Sarteano Reunion A Cappella Ensemble (Mexico), Vox Futura (Professional Recording Studio Choir), Labyrinth Choir, and in other numerous other choral performances throughout North America and Europe. She has also sung professionally in choirs with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Pops, Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Labrie's 2014 choral performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony with Westminster Choir and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra was nominated for a Grammy. Solo orchestral performances include Ralph Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music with the Farmington Valley Symphony, and the Pie Jesu from Maurice Duruflé's Requiem the Pioneer Valley Symphony. She is also a lead singer for The Boston Rock and Soul Revue, is a cantor at St. Leonard's of Port Maurice in the North End (Boston's oldest church built by Italian immigrants), and a regular chorister at Trinity Church (Copley). Sarah is in high demand as both a choral and solo musician.
Ms. Labrie graduated Summa Cum Laude from Westminster Choir College with a B.M. in Music Education, and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Messiah University with both an M.M. and C.A.G.S. in Choral Conducting. She has had the pleasure of studying conducting and rehearsal technique with Simon Carrington, Brian O'Connell, Dr. Joe Miller, Dr. Amanda Quist, Tom Shelton, Dr. Joy Meade, and Dr. Rachel Cornacchio. She studied voice with Dr. Rochelle Ellis and jazz voice with Ellen Cogen.
Ms. Labrie is the Treble Repertoire and Resources Chair for the Massachusetts chapter of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), and is an active member of the Massachusetts Music Educator Association (MMEA), the Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association (MICCA), and the National Association for Music Educators (NAfME.) She has been on the Executive Board of the Southeastern Massachusetts MMEA chapter for 5 years, and has managed and adjudicated at both the Senior and Junior levels for 7 years. In both 2021 and 2022, Ms. Labrie was chosen to conduct the Junior Mixed SEMSBA Festival Choir. In 2024 she will be conducting the MMEA Eastern District Junior Mixed Choir, and in 2025 she will be conducting the MMEA Southeastern District Junior Treble Choir.
Paul Carlson, accompanist, has dedicated his performance career to presenting concerts with unique programming and dynamic audience lectures. He appears frequently as a solo recitalist and also as a collaborative musician. Freshness characterizes his programs, which strike a careful balance between the familiarity of great music of the standard repertoire, and the exciting discovery of new or neglected works. He performs frequently with the Lexington Symphony (Massachusetts), with whom he has played solo concertos under the batons of Jonathan McPhee, David Hoose, Patrick Botti, and Anthony Princiotti. His interest in engaging programming extends to the Opal Ensemble, with clarinetist Todd Brunel, and violist Anne Black, which presents new and neglected chamber works in a concert series in Arlington and Lexington, Massachusetts.
Dr. Carlson’s unique programming includes championing new music and the utilization of visual media. His "Armistice Day" program synchronized The Seige of Tripoli, a 19th-century American "battle piece" by Benjamin Carr with projections of the original programmatic text. He paired Sports et divertissements, a collection of miniatures by Erik Satie, with images of Satie’s verbal texts and the original accompanying art-deco illustrations. Music of living composers also forms an important part of many of his recitals, as in his premiers of works by Boston-area composers Hayg Boyadjian, John McDonald and Marti Epstein. Also a composer, Paul Carlson’s volume of original compositions for organ is available from GIA Publications. His Sicilienne fugitif for oboe and strings was premiered in May of 2012 by the Lexington Symphony Chamber Players.
Dedicated to music accessibility and audience engagement, Dr. Carlson often accompanies his recitals with short lectures. He has presented papers at American Musicological Society New England Chapter meetings as well as for local music clubs. The research component of his doctoral work at Boston University focused on the piano performance style of Claude Debussy, including extensive analysis of early sound recordings. In addition to frequent programming of Debussy, he has a special interest in other music originating in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially unfairly neglected works. Very much in this vein, he has recorded the First Piano Sonata by Charles Ives and the Preludes by Ruth Crawford Seeger. The CD is available online through all the major outlets.
Dr. Carlson received a Bachelor of Music degree from Gordon College, and Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from Boston University. His teachers include Tong-Il Han, Raymond Hanson, Maria-Clodes Jaguaribe, Boris Berman, Fred Broer, Saul Skersey and Marjorie Richie. He has taught at Gordon College and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. He has served as organist at Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Woburn for over twenty years. At present he lives in Westford, Massachusetts, and teaches at the Lexington Music School.
Dr. Carlson’s unique programming includes championing new music and the utilization of visual media. His "Armistice Day" program synchronized The Seige of Tripoli, a 19th-century American "battle piece" by Benjamin Carr with projections of the original programmatic text. He paired Sports et divertissements, a collection of miniatures by Erik Satie, with images of Satie’s verbal texts and the original accompanying art-deco illustrations. Music of living composers also forms an important part of many of his recitals, as in his premiers of works by Boston-area composers Hayg Boyadjian, John McDonald and Marti Epstein. Also a composer, Paul Carlson’s volume of original compositions for organ is available from GIA Publications. His Sicilienne fugitif for oboe and strings was premiered in May of 2012 by the Lexington Symphony Chamber Players.
Dedicated to music accessibility and audience engagement, Dr. Carlson often accompanies his recitals with short lectures. He has presented papers at American Musicological Society New England Chapter meetings as well as for local music clubs. The research component of his doctoral work at Boston University focused on the piano performance style of Claude Debussy, including extensive analysis of early sound recordings. In addition to frequent programming of Debussy, he has a special interest in other music originating in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially unfairly neglected works. Very much in this vein, he has recorded the First Piano Sonata by Charles Ives and the Preludes by Ruth Crawford Seeger. The CD is available online through all the major outlets.
Dr. Carlson received a Bachelor of Music degree from Gordon College, and Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from Boston University. His teachers include Tong-Il Han, Raymond Hanson, Maria-Clodes Jaguaribe, Boris Berman, Fred Broer, Saul Skersey and Marjorie Richie. He has taught at Gordon College and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. He has served as organist at Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Woburn for over twenty years. At present he lives in Westford, Massachusetts, and teaches at the Lexington Music School.
Vocal coach Annina Hsieh is a Boston-based soprano and educator. Praised for her sensitivity as a performer, Hsieh strives to connect with audiences in opera and recital settings, and was the 2019 winner of the Handel and Haydn Society’s Barbara E. Maze Award for Musical Excellence. She completed her Master of Music in Voice Performance at Cleveland Institute of Music, and her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance at Ithaca College. As a teacher, Hsieh works with students to develop and use their natural voice to express themselves through song. Hsieh believes that, above all, lessons should be tailored to each student’s learning style and musical goals. She works with beginning and advanced students of all ages and has taught students in classical, musical theater, jazz, folk, and pop repertoire.
