Steven Lorenz is currently Director of Vocal Music at South Lyon High School and South Lyon East High School in the South Lyon Community School District. He directs five curricular choral ensembles, an extra-curricular vocal jazz ensemble, and teaches advanced placement music theory. During the summer, Mr. Lorenz is on the conducting faculty at the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp.

 

Mr. Lorenz holds degrees from Carleton College (B.A.) and Michigan State University (M.M.), and has studied conducting with Jonathan Reed, Lawrence Burnett, and Jerry Rubino. Choirs prepared by Mr. Lorenz have appeared under the batons of Enrique Diemecke, Arie Lipsky, and David Rayl.

 

Mr. Lorenz is an active member of the American Choral Directors Association and former District Manager for the Michigan School Vocal Music Association. He is the former Assistant Conductor of both Measure for Measure and the University Musical Society Choral Union.

Dr. Leonard Riccinto - Founding Conductor

Until his untimely death on December 11, 2006, Dr. Leonard L. Riccinto served as Professor of Music at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He directed the University and Chamber Choirs, supervised student teachers, and taught choral conducting and secondary school vocal methods. He has directed Measure for Measure from its founding in 1988.

Dr. Riccinto earned his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the University of Michigan School of Music. He was awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts degree by Michigan State University in 1985. He is also a veteran of twenty years of public school teaching at the secondary level, holding positions in the Grosse Pointe and Battle Creek school systems in Michigan.

He was past president of the American Choral Directors Association - Michigan, and a member of the Michigan School Vocal Music Association. Dr. Riccinto was also the director of the Plymouth Oratorio Society, and served as a guest clinician and adjudicator.

On January 13, 2007, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to male choral singing in America, Dr. Leonard Riccinto was posthumously awarded the 2007 Marshall Bartholomew Award by the Intercollegiate Men's Choruses, a national association of male choruses.