Sunday December 3, 2023
This event was video recorded and the individual songs can be watched here.
Thomas Mustachio has been at the helm of the Glen Ridge Choral Society since January 2009. Mr. Mustachio is now completing his fourteenth year as Minister of Music at Glen Ridge Congregational Church UCC, and Accompanist at Temple Emeth in Teaneck. As well as having a roster of private music students in New Jersey, Mr. Mustachio is also active as an accompanist and coach in New York City. For ten years, Mr. Mustachio was the Resident Music Director of Chanhassen Dinner Theatres in Minnesota, the largest professional dinner theatre in the country. One of his favorite opportunities was to partner with the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization of New York to create the score (vocal arrangements, dance arrangements and orchestrations) for the new stage version of Irving Berlin’s Easter Parade.
Diane Schaming is a native of Bernardsville, New Jersey. She has music degrees from Syracuse University and The Peabody Conservatory. Performance highlights include touring China with the Hendricks Chapel Choir, singing in the European premiere of American composer Luigi Zaninelli's opera Snow White at the Teatro Communale in Florence, Italy, and performing German Lieder in Graz, Austria. She is alto soloist at Temple Emanu-El in Westfield and Glen Ridge Congregational Church in Glen Ridge, where she lives with her husband and two children.
