panoramic voices staff

JULI ORLANDINI
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR

Juli is a fierce champion of community-building through the arts. Her life-long choral obsession led her to earn a bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Westminster Choir College. She has since taught general, vocal, and choral music at the primary and secondary levels, and has sung with myriad semi-professional and professional vocal ensembles in New York, Denver, and Austin, including C4, Kantorei, Anima, Panoramic Voices (Chamber Ensemble), Inversion, Austin Cantorum, Tinsel Singers, Texas Early Music Project, and the San Antonio Chamber Choir.

Juli served as the Director of Training Choirs with the Denver Children’s Choir, where a budding interest in arts administration grew into a full-blown passion. She has since completed her master’s at Johns Hopkins University (Museam Studies), served as the Children’s Choir Repertoire and Standards Chair on the Colorado ACDA board, and worked for such organizations as the the Clyfford Still Museum (Education Coordinator), Kantorei (Board Secretary; Communications Manager), and Bethany Lutheran Church (Communications Director/Children’s Youth Music Director), honing both her artistic and administrative leadership skills. Currently, Juli is a gigging musician and artist in Austin, TX, as well as the Operations Manager for the Texas Early Music Project and Art Director & Associate Conductor for Inversion.

Juli is particularly enthusiastic about helping arts organizations and other small non-profits find their voices, both artistically and administratively. She is an ardent believer in music’s unique power to build stronger, better communities through meaningful collaboration and high-quality performance opportunities. Juli is thrilled to share this vision with Panoramic Voices!

BENJAMIN DIA
ACCOMPANIST

Benjamin Dia is a pianist, arranger, and conductor. He made his debut as a collaborative pianist with the principal players of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra at the 1992 Asian Composers League Festival in the Cultural Center of the Philippines, premiering new works by emerging Asian composers. After graduating with a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from the University of the Philippines, he went to the United States to pursue his graduate studies at the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. Since then he has performed in music festivals and in venues such as The Asia Society of New York, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts, Oslo Konserthus, and in the Aberdeen International Youth Festival.