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- Artist-Lecturer in voice and conducting
- Women's Chorus
- Vocal Pedagogy
- Vocal Literature
- Vocal Diction
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azzati@moravian.edu
Eduardo Azzati, director & conductor, is a versatile
musician who divides his time between singing, teaching and conducting.
He gained popularity as a conductor and baritone soloist in his
homeland Argentina where he directed many choral and orchestral
ensembles and sang with important orchestras including the National
Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Azzati has held many positions as a conductor.
Among others Associate Conductor of the award winning National
Youth Choir of Argentina, Director of Choral Activities and Conductor
of award winning choirs at St. Agnes School, Director of Choral
Activities and Conductor at St. Andrew's School and Conductor
of Kantus Choral Group.
As a solo singer Mr. Azzati specializes in the oratorio
and art song repertories. He appears frequently in the Lehigh
Valley and beyond and has sung in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil,
France, Spain and Greece. The Morning Call remarked: "In Max Reger's
Der Einsiedler Eduardo Azzati was the excellent soloist. Never
has solitude and loneliness sounded so gorgeous." The same newspaper
said in a review of Bach's St. John's Passion: "Eduardo Azzati
was outstanding as Pilate."
Currently he is on the music faculty at Moravian
College where he is the 2005 recipient of the T. Edgar Shields
Prize for "excellence in studio teaching, contributions to music
scholarship and participation in professional musical activites,
and a quality relationship to music students." Mr. Azzati is Director
of Music at Yardley United Methodist Church, in Yardley, PA where
he directs children, youth, adult and handbell choirs. He is also
on the music faculty at Lehigh University. Mr. Azzati holds a
Bachelors Degree in music with a specialization in conducting
from Juan José Castro State Conservatory of Music, Buenos Aires,
Argentina, and a Master's Degree in Voice Performance and Pedagogy
from Westminster Choir College of Rider University, Princeton,
NJ.
