Biography

Community College of Rhode Island - Music

Director of choirs at the Community College of Rhode Island and Roger Williams University
Joseph
Amante y Zapata
Dr. Joseph J. Amante is professor of music at the Community College of Rhode Island and is adjunct professor for Roger Williams University Chorus beginning Fall 2018. He has been an accompanist for music instructors as well as a part-time keyboardist and vocal soloist at various churches throughout Rhode Island. Dr. Amante also music directs theater productions and has recently been a member of Contemporary Theater Company (Wakefield, RI). He is a violist with Rhode Island's Ocean State Pops Orchestra and South County Chamber Orchestra as well as a mandola player in L'Esperance Mandolin Ensemble.

Beyond Rhode Island, Amante has traveled with the CCRI choirs to Boston, for Boston Pro Musica, to New York’s Carnegie Hall, and to McGill University in Montreal. His CCRI choirs have premiered two choral works of New Spain, which Dr. Amante has transcribed.

Amante and his wife, Dr. Terry Deeney, a professor at URI, reside in South Kingstown, RI with their son and daughter.