David Weiller
Professor David Weiller celebrates his twenty-fourth year as Director of Choral Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Under his leadership, the university choral ensembles have established an outstanding reputation through their annual concert tours and festival performances. UNLV choirs have appeared at western division conventions of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and the Music Educators National Conference (MENC), as well as state music educator conferences in Nevada, California and Utah. Concert tours have taken the choirs throughout the western states as well as Hawaii, New York, Canada and Mexico.
Professor Weiller currently conducts the University Concert Singers and Chamber Chorale and co-directs the University Children’s Chorale. He teaches related courses in choral studies and supervises student teachers as they prepare for careers in music education. Many of his former students are now successful music teachers throughout the country.
Professor Weiller maintains a busy schedule as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator, and he plays an active role in furthering quality choral performances throughout the Clark County School District. He is a past recipient of the UNLV William Morris Award for Excellence in Teaching and the UNLV Alumni Association's Distinguished Faculty Award. He has conducted over fifty musical theatre productions during his tenure at UNLV and as a principal conductor for the College Light Opera Company at Highfield Theatre on Cape Cod, and he has appeared as a guest conductor of the Las Vegas Philharmonic and the Nevada Symphony Orchestra in major works for chorus and orchestra. He currently serves as Nevada state president for the American Choral Directors Association.
David Weiller holds degrees from Occidental College in Los Angeles and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While completing further studies in music education at California State University, Fullerton, he participated in Helmuth Rilling's master classes at the Oregon Bach Festival. As a “life-long learner,” Professor Weiller has done intensive summer training at Westminster Choir College, the University of Oklahoma and the University of Nevada, Reno. Recent studies include training in Dalcroze Eurhythmics at Carnegie Mellon University. His teaching mentors include Harold A. Decker, Thomas Somerville, Drinda Frenzel, and James A. Young.
