Billy Janiszewski

Billy is a Director, Teacher, Tenor, Guitarist, and Songwriter in the greater New York area. In 2014, Billy founded Tapestry, a not-for-profit choir, of which he is the Artistic Director. Tapestry currently operates in residence at The Church of Saint Thomas More in Manhattan. He also serves as the Program and Music Director of Basilica Voices, a children’s choir established at The Basilica of Saint Patrick’s Old Cathedral in Lower Manhattan. From 2008-2009, he served as the Assistant Director of The Vernon Chorale in Vernon, Connecticut. As a teacher, Billy has spent time instructing Choir, Music Theory, Songwriting, Guitar, and Voice at Highbridge Voices and Sacred Heart School in The Bronx, as well as at The Cape Music Institute in Cape Town, South Africa. He has performed as a Tenor with The New York Choral Society, The New York Choral Society Chamber Singers, where he has also been featured as a soloist, The Vernon Chorale, and as a Cantor at Saint Mark the Evangelist Church in West Hartford, Connecticut. He has accompanied Highbridge Voices and The New York Choral Society Chamber Singers as a guitarist, and was the guitar accompanist at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Storrs, Connecticut. In addition, Billy is an experienced songwriter and has released six albums of original music, both as a soloist and with various bands. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from the University of Connecticut.