Byron D.

Byron is a Guatemalan-American conductor, baritone, and educator from Brooklyn, NY. He sings with the Marble Choir at Marble Collegiate Church, the competing choir Delaware Choral Scholars, and has sung with professional ensembles like Voices of Ascension and the Bard Festival Choral. He is also Conducting Apprentice with the Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia for their 152nd season.has participated in workshops including the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival at the Yale Summer School of Music, the Sarteano Choral Workshop, the Collaborative Piano Institute, and the Lift Every Voice Symposium. He holds an MM in Choral Conducting from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, where he maintained a private voice studio, and a BM in Voice Performance with a minor in Linguistics from the Ithaca College School of Music, Theatre, and Dance. He is also an alumnus of the Young People’s Chorus of New York City. He believe the voice is the most vulnerable and powerful instrument we have!