Donald Neuen

Donald Neuen is an American choral conductor, composer, arranger, editor, and educator who currently serves as Distinguished Professor of Conducting and Director of Choral Activities at the University of California, Los Angeles. He conducts the UCLA Chorale while teaching courses in conducting and directing one of the most respected graduate programs in choral conducting. Before his tenure at UCLA, he was part of the faculty at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. He currently also serves as the Artistic Director and Conductor for the Angeles Chorale and the Director of the Cathedral Choir at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California. He is heavily influenced by Robert Shaw, who he studied under and was in 1970 commissioned to create the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus in Atlanta. Since then, he has served as the Assistant Conductor and the Director of Choral Activities for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Neuen has also served on the faculties of the University of Wisconsin, University of Tennessee, Ball State University, and Georgia State University. His students have gone on to lead major choruses throughout the United States. He has released videos in the Choral Excellence Series as well as a collegiate choral conducting textbook, Choral Concepts.

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