Rick Hoffenberg, D.M.A. 

Dr. Rick Hoffenberg is an Associate Professor and Director of Choral Activities at Marywood University. He is also Music Director of the Marywood – Wyoming Seminary Civic Orchestra. He previously held conducting positions at the University of Northern Iowa and Williams College, and has directed more than a dozen choral tours throughout the United States; he has also conducted high school festival concerts and workshops in the Eastern and Midwestern United States.

Rick has spent the past 27 summers at Chautauqua Opera, where he is a pianist, coach, and assistant conductor. He has also worked in various capacities for New York City Opera, BMG Classics/RCA Victor Red Seal, Columbia Artists Management, the Milken Archive, and Spoleto Festival USA. As a pianist, he has performed at Orchestra Hall in Chicago, the Music Institute of Chicago, Rockefeller Chapel in New York City, and Richardson Auditorium in Princeton, New Jersey. He was the state winner, division winner, and national finalist in the 1994 MTNA Wurlitzer Piano Competition. 

Rick holds degrees from Princeton University, Yale University, and Westminster Choir College, where his conducting teachers included Andrew Megill and the late Joseph Flummerfelt. He recently made his Carnegie Hall conducting debut (May 2026) with a performance of Bernstein's Chichester Psalms.