Jimmy Damore has been named an Artist in Residence for the Department of Music and Theatre at Albright College, where he will also serve as Director of Choral Activities, and work with Albright’s vocal performance students.
Damore is an educator, musician and theater artist who holds a B.A. with honors in performance studies from Brown University, where he received the T. Carpenter Elocution Award.
As an educator, Damore has taught middle and high school English and middle and elementary school music and choir in public and charter schools in southeastern Pennsylvania. He has also taught private voice and piano lessons and musical theater classes at the Yocum Institute for Arts Education.
A musician named “all state” by the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association and “all eastern” by the National Association for Music Education, Damore’s varied music credits include serving as director for musicals with Albright College, Prima Theatre, Gretna Theatre, Yocum, Reading Theater Project and Sycamore Stage among others. He has held the role of director of music at Nativity Evangelical Lutheran Church and Schwarzwald United Church of Christ, singing with Opus One Chamber Choir and collaborating with singers and instrumentalists in performances on the piano.
Damore also serves as production and company coordinator with Reading Theater Project and likes to grow his artistic capabilities by writing plays and prose, directing plays and musicals, and acting.
