Donald Neuen
Donald Neuen is an American choral conductor, composer, arranger, editor, and educator who was formerly the Distinguished Professor of Conducting and Director of Choral Activities at the University of California, Los Angeles.UCLA Music Department, Donald Neuen, {{cite web |url=http://www.music.ucla.edu/People/Faculty%20bios/DNeuen.html |title=Donald Neuen bio |accessdate=2008-04-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216192619/http://www.music.ucla.edu/People/Faculty%20bios/DNeuen.html |archivedate=2008-02-16 }} He conducted the UCLA Chorale while teaching courses in conducting and directing one of the most respected graduate programs in choral conducting in the United States. He was 80 years old when he retired.{{Cite web|url=http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/a-grand-finale-for-conductor-extraordinaire-donald-neuen|title=A grand finale for conductor extraordinaire Donald Neuen|access-date=2014-11-02|archive-date=2014-09-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140926030417/http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/a-grand-finale-for-conductor-extraordinaire-donald-neuen|url-status=live}}
Early life and education
Raised in what Neuen described as "the small, enormously musical, Swiss-Mennonite community of Berne, Indiana,"{{citation needed|date=March 2015}}, Neuen studied under and was heavily influenced by Robert Shaw (the former Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, founder of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus in Georgia,{{citation needed|date=March 2015}} and famous for his Robert Shaw Chorale).
Career
Neuen served as the Assistant Conductor and the Director of Choral Activities for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}}
Neuen led the Los Angeles-based Angeles Chorale as Artistic Director for 13 years, from 1996 to 2009.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}} He was the former director of the Cathedral Choir at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}} Before his tenure at UCLA, Neuen was a member of the faculty of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}}
Neuen has also served on the faculties of the University of Wisconsin, University of Tennessee, Ball State University, and Georgia State University.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}} His students have gone on to lead major choruses and orchestras throughout the world.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}} He has released videos in the Choral Excellence Series as well as a collegiate choral conducting textbook, Choral Concepts.{{Cite web|url=http://www.singers.com/instructional/donaldneuen.html|title=Donald Neuen choral director biography and CD recordings|access-date=2008-04-24|archive-date=2008-05-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514003412/http://www.singers.com/instructional/donaldneuen.html|url-status=live}}
Neuen is a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity.[http://delta-omicron.org/index00.html Delta Omicron] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100127130549/http://delta-omicron.org/index00.html |date=January 27, 2010 }}
References
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- http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/a-grand-finale-for-conductor-extraordinaire-donald-neuen
- http://www.performingartslive.com/Events/Royce-Hall-at-UCLA-The-Faith-of-Beethoven-672014
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