Choir director receives award from students

By Kassia Micek

WOODLANDS, TX — The students at Lone Star College-Montgomery
have spoken.

Among the professors they see every day, students chose
Dominick DiOrio, LSC-Montgomery assistant professor of music and
choir director, to receive the 2012 Student’s Star award, which
students nominate faculty for and an administrative team names.

“I’m just so thrilled,” DiOrio said. “… It means one thing to be
recognized by the faculty or your peers, but to be recognized by
students is another thing.”

DiOrio has been teaching at LSC-Montgomery two years, after
three years of student teaching at Yale University as a graduate
student.

“Music is such a great field to study because it connects people
across cultures,” DiOrio said about his career field.

Although he and all four of his siblings went through piano
lessons with their mother, DiOrio is the only one who chose it as a
career, but it wasn’t until high school that he realized his love
for music.

“I wanted to pass that love on to people through teaching,”
DiOrio said. “If you’re passionate about something, you bring that
to others.”

And that’s exactly what his students get.