Dr. Johengen has garnered a reputation as an exceptionally skilled and versatile musician, achieving considerable success as a choral conductor, teacher, singer, and
composer. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in voice performance from the Eastman School of Music, and was awarded the school’s prestigious Performer’s
Certificate. At Ithaca College he received master's degrees in choral conducting and voice performance, as well as a bachelor’s degree in oboe.
He currently serves on the voice faculty of the Ithaca College School of Music; he has also held academic appointments at Nazareth College of Rochester, the Crane
School of Music of SUNY Potsdam, the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, Hamilton College, and Syracuse University. He maintains an active private voice studio
and has worked with students of all ages.
An experienced choral musician, Dr. Johengen has conducted professional, civic and church choral groups throughout New York State; currently he serves as Music
Director of the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble, an elite 18-voice chamber choir in Ithaca. During the summers of 2000 to 2007 he served as faculty member at the Berkshire
Choral Festival. He was the Founding Music Director of the Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus, and led them in numerous concerts, recordings, and premieres during
his eleven-year tenure. He has led workshops in choral and church music throughout the country, and is in demand as a conductor of high school festival choirs.
A tenor, Dr. Johengen’s performances have consistently been hailed as expressive, intelligent, and technically assured. He has shared the stage with such artists as
baritones Max von Egmond and Kurt Ollmann, lutenist Paul O’Dette, and conductors Robert Page, Phillip Brunelle, Gilbert Varga, Andrews Sill, and Shinik Hahm. His
diverse repertoire spans Monteverdi and Bach to Lou Harrison and Arvo Pärt. He has soloed with the Milwaukee, Hartford, Green Bay, and Syracuse Symphonies,
Rochester Philharmonic, opera companies in Syracuse and Rochester, and in such venues as Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Halls and the Boston Early
Music Festival.
A specialist in music of the Baroque, he is a frequent soloist with the historical instrument ensemble The Publick Musick, with whom he has performed over a dozen of
Bach’s cantatas as well as the St. John Passion and sacred music of Monteverdi. He has appeared with The Publick Musick at the Boston Early Music Festival in Bach’s
Coffee Cantata and two of his Lutheran Masses. A frequent guest with regional and collegiate oratorio societies, he has been heard in numerous works of Purcell, Bach,
Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Honegger, among others. He has sung Britten’s War Requiem at the Eastman School of Music and at Lawrence University; the
latter performance was broadcast on Wisconsin Public Radio.
On the operatic stage, he has appeared as Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, as Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, as Beppe in I Pagliacci, and in leading roles in several Gilbert
and Sullivan operettas. An active chamber musician, he performs frequently with Sweet, Fair & Wise, a trio with guitarist Doug Rubio and flautist Jill Rubio. The trio was
invited to perform at the 2004 Convention of the National Association of Teachers of Singing in New Orleans and at the 2004 St. Lawrence Music Festival.
Dr. Johengen's singing has received accolades and awards in several national and international competitions, including those of the Concert Artists Guild, The National
Opera Association, and the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
He is also an award-winning composer of choral and sacred music, with over two dozen published works and several significant commissions.
composer. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in voice performance from the Eastman School of Music, and was awarded the school’s prestigious Performer’s
Certificate. At Ithaca College he received master's degrees in choral conducting and voice performance, as well as a bachelor’s degree in oboe.
He currently serves on the voice faculty of the Ithaca College School of Music; he has also held academic appointments at Nazareth College of Rochester, the Crane
School of Music of SUNY Potsdam, the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, Hamilton College, and Syracuse University. He maintains an active private voice studio
and has worked with students of all ages.
An experienced choral musician, Dr. Johengen has conducted professional, civic and church choral groups throughout New York State; currently he serves as Music
Director of the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble, an elite 18-voice chamber choir in Ithaca. During the summers of 2000 to 2007 he served as faculty member at the Berkshire
Choral Festival. He was the Founding Music Director of the Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus, and led them in numerous concerts, recordings, and premieres during
his eleven-year tenure. He has led workshops in choral and church music throughout the country, and is in demand as a conductor of high school festival choirs.
A tenor, Dr. Johengen’s performances have consistently been hailed as expressive, intelligent, and technically assured. He has shared the stage with such artists as
baritones Max von Egmond and Kurt Ollmann, lutenist Paul O’Dette, and conductors Robert Page, Phillip Brunelle, Gilbert Varga, Andrews Sill, and Shinik Hahm. His
diverse repertoire spans Monteverdi and Bach to Lou Harrison and Arvo Pärt. He has soloed with the Milwaukee, Hartford, Green Bay, and Syracuse Symphonies,
Rochester Philharmonic, opera companies in Syracuse and Rochester, and in such venues as Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Halls and the Boston Early
Music Festival.
A specialist in music of the Baroque, he is a frequent soloist with the historical instrument ensemble The Publick Musick, with whom he has performed over a dozen of
Bach’s cantatas as well as the St. John Passion and sacred music of Monteverdi. He has appeared with The Publick Musick at the Boston Early Music Festival in Bach’s
Coffee Cantata and two of his Lutheran Masses. A frequent guest with regional and collegiate oratorio societies, he has been heard in numerous works of Purcell, Bach,
Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Honegger, among others. He has sung Britten’s War Requiem at the Eastman School of Music and at Lawrence University; the
latter performance was broadcast on Wisconsin Public Radio.
On the operatic stage, he has appeared as Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, as Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, as Beppe in I Pagliacci, and in leading roles in several Gilbert
and Sullivan operettas. An active chamber musician, he performs frequently with Sweet, Fair & Wise, a trio with guitarist Doug Rubio and flautist Jill Rubio. The trio was
invited to perform at the 2004 Convention of the National Association of Teachers of Singing in New Orleans and at the 2004 St. Lawrence Music Festival.
Dr. Johengen's singing has received accolades and awards in several national and international competitions, including those of the Concert Artists Guild, The National
Opera Association, and the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
He is also an award-winning composer of choral and sacred music, with over two dozen published works and several significant commissions.
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