Where is Henry Alviani?

By Henry Alviani

   Dr. Henry A. Alviani, former Director of Choral Music and Drama at Big Bear High School, was recently promoted to Associate Professor and was granted tenure at Clarion University of Pennsylvania, where he serves as head of Choral and Vocal Music Studies.  While at Big Bear, Alviani directed the choral music, the band for one year, and the drama program.  He also was the founding director of the Bear Valley Masterworks Chorale which performed an annual sing-along Messiah with guest readers such as Lew Ayres and Shirley Jones.

   In the past five years several of Alviani’s  choral compositions have been published by Alliance Publications of Sinsinawa, WI, including a set of arrangements of Chippewa melodies, the set of Psalm settings that were performed in Big Bear,  and a choral setting of the English ballad “Sweet William’s Ghost.”  His five-movement choral suite NAMAN Memory Altar, based on a series of poems written by a Clarion art instructor who served as a US Army illustrator in Saigon in the early 1970s, was premiered last May.  His vocal technique manual, originally titled Gearheads, Jocks, and Your Voice, was released last June under the title VoiceWorks by Alfred Publishing, Inc.

   Alviani’s daughter Bekah, who was born in Big Bear, is now a freshman choral music education major at Clarion University.  His wife Cyndi is the Director of Christian Education and Youth Ministries at St. Luke Lutheran Church in Cabot, PA.

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