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Composers BureauTony DohertyBiography
His works include numerous sacred and secular choral compositions, including commissions and/or first performances by St. Thomas Apostle Choir, Washington DC (where he was designated Composer to the Choir under director James Walsh), the College of New Rochelle Glee Club, the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the Contra Costa Children's Chorus, and the Kensington Symphony. Other vocal works include songs as well as performing editions of liturgical chants and other medieval and Renaissance music. His orchestral and chamber works have been performed by the Arlekin String Quartet and the Warsaw Symphony. The Oakland Chamber Orchestra commissioned and performed his arrangements of selections from Scott Joplin's Treemonisha. He has conducted choirs at churches in the Washington DC area, Central Florida (where he was also Musical Director of the Opera Arts Association), and the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as opera and musical theater. His wife, novelist Patricia Doherty, is the author of the Dismas Shaunessey Mystery series. |
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Anthony Doherty graduated with a major in composition from the Catholic University of America, where his teachers included G. Thaddeus Jones, Conrad Bernier, and Robert Ricks, and received a master's degree in music history from Princeton University. He has also taught at both institutions. He studied medieval liturgy and chant manuscripts in Italy on a Fulbright Scholarship, served on the staff of the Library of Congress's Music Division, and contributed articles on music and musicians to the New Catholic Encyclopedia.