David Neiweem

Professor

Neiweem was born in Chicago, and was educated both there and in his mother's native Europe. He attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (Mus.B.), where he studied singing with Joan Caplan and Richard Miller, and organ playing with Garth Peacock. He completed further studies in Stuttgart (Germany) at the Hochschule fuer Musik und darstellende Kunst, where he studied singing with Bruce Abel and song interpretation with Konrad Richter. His graduate work was completed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.Mus., M.Mus, D.M.A.).

Trained both as a singer and keyboard player, he has maintained an active schedule in both areas throughout his career. He made his professional debut as a baritone in 1973 in the famed Stuttgart Liederhalle. He has since gone on to sing opera, oratorio and art song throughout Germany, Austria, France, Canada and the United States.

Especially known for performances of new music, he has recorded twentieth century works for the Süddeutscher Rundfunk, Österreichischer Rundfunk in Europe, and the U.S. for National Public Radio and American Public Radio. In the summer of 1998, he was invited to present the David Neiweem Singers in a program of American music for the Summer Cultural Festival in Brno, Czech Republic. The summer of 2004 brings him back to Europe for a tour of Austria, where he will conduct performances of Mozart's Requiem, and Haydn's Theresienmesse, as well as several performances of American music.

Maestro Neiweem has sung in and directed choirs throughout his career as well. He was associated twice with the distinguished Chicago Symphony Chorus, first when still in high school as one of its youngest singers, and later at the invitation of the late Margaret Hillis, founder and conductor laureate, as an intern and conducting student. He has conducted countless festivals and performances of community, college and university choral and orchestral organizations in the U.S., Canada, Austria and Germany, and he has prepared choirs for many orchestral performances, including the Beethoven Ninth, Orff's Carmina Burana, Holst's The Planets, and Berlioz' L'enfance du Christ. As Music Director and Conductor of several Choral Societies, Neiweem has enjoyed the privilege of leading performances of many of the greatest large works for chorus and orchestra.

He has judged solo and choral singing throughout Canada and the U.S. in competitions ranging from New England Festival competitions the National Association of Teachers of Singing Artist Auditions. Neiweem has taught seminars and given master classes on opera, Schubert songs and German Romantic Songs for many years, at the Institut für europäische Studien in Vienna, Austria, and for two summers at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. He has also served on the artist-faculty of the New York State Summer School fort the Performing Arts in Saratoga, New York, and the Summer High School Music Clinic in Madison, Wisconsin

At UVM, Professor Neiweem conducts the University Concert Choir, the Catamount Singers (Chamber Choir), and teaches singing and conducting.