Music Director
John Curtis is proud to be the musical director of Choral Arts of Luzerne County. He also directs the Performing Arts program at Misericordia University and serves as director of Choral Activities.
Dr. Curtis holds degrees in piano and conducting from the New England Conservatory of Music, Temple University, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has performed as a pianist and accompanist throughout the northeastern United States, and his choirs have toured Europe and sung in Carnegie Hall. He has led choral workshops for the American Guild of Organists, the Massachusetts Music Teachers’ Association, and the Appalachian Mountain Club, and has served as adjudicator for numerous high school choral festivals and for Eisteddfods in Edwardsville, Pennsylvania.
Recent activities have included directing choral festivals in Wyoming, Monroe, and Luzerne counties, conducting the Robert Dale Chorale in the 2000 Scranton Bach Festival, and directing the Chorale and Madrigal Singers of Wyoming Seminary. He has been the musical director for two Gilbert and Sullivan operettas produced by the Little Theater of Wilkes-Barre: H.M.S. Pinafore, for which he won a NEPTA award for “Best Musical Director," and The Pirates of Penzance. He also served as musical director for the Misericordia Players' productions of The Fantasticks and Pippin.