Dr. Hank Aliviani

Our studio welcomes Dr. Alviani back from sabbatical, teaching all levels of private voice, beginning through intermediate piano, as well as composition.

Burbank, California, native Hank Alviani is Associate Professor of Music at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, commencing in August 2014. He holds a BA in Music Education from Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles; the MM in Choral Conducting from California State University Fullerton; and the DMA from Arizona State University. He also was a Master Class conducting student of Helmuth Rilling at the Oregon Bach Festival. He has directed all types of choral ensembles and taught private studio and class voice, music theory, music history, and supervised student teachers.

After teaching junior and senior high school choral music in Southern California for twelve years, he has taught at the college level in Texas, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania since 1993. His vocal technique manual VoiceWorks was published by Alfred Publishing and released in 2007.

He has composed many pieces for chorus and several of his choral compositions are available from Alliance Publications, Inc., of Fish Creek, WI. He has performed with the Pittsburgh Opera Chorus, has been guest conductor for several Pennsylvania County, District, and Region Honor Choruses, and was a member of ACDA, NCCO, and NATS. He served as Faculty Advisor for Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia which awarded him the Orpheus Award in May 2006 for his contributions to music in America.

In his free time, he enjoys traveling, having visited 22 foreign countries on four continents, including his time as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia, South America. He also enjoys fishing and has caught three 34" fish: a musky, a lake trout, and a king salmon. His daughter Rebekah is also a college professor at Brevard College in North Carolina where she teaches photography.