David Michael McNeil
Adjunct Faculty
Newman Performing Arts Center, 2344 East Iliff Ave. Denver, CO 80210
Professional Biography
Conductor and educator Dr. David McNeil has been active in the Denver area since 2018, when he joined the faculty of the CCU School of Music in Lakewood as Director of Choral Studies. Other current professional engagements include serving as the Artistic Director of the Vittoria Ensemble, a Denver-based chamber choir specializing in early music; and as Choir Director at Rockland Community Church in Golden, Colorado. McNeil regularly leads performances by CCU ensembles across the Front Range, Colorado, and the United States, and is an active choral clinician and guest conductor.
Other appointments have included assistant director of the Yale Glee Club and co-conductor of the Yale Marquand Chapel Choir, and principal assistant conductor of the Yale Camerata. His DMA thesis research focused on the musical-political interpretation of Henry Purcell's anthems. He has studied conducting with Dominick DiOrio, Walter Huff, Betsy Burleigh, Jeffrey Douma, Marguerite Brooks, David Hill, and Masaaki Suzuki, and has prepared choruses for Marin Alsop, Marguerite Brooks, Jeffrey Douma, Arthur Fagen, and William Boughton. McNeil's other musical interests include new music, music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the practice of continuo realization.
An experienced k-12 educator, McNeil taught for five years at a private school in the northern suburbs of Chicago, where chaired the Fine Arts department, taught junior and senior high school choir, band, and drama, as well as elementary general music and choir.
McNeil and his wife, Chelsey, along with their six children, reside in Wheat Ridge.
Degrees:
DMA, Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music
MM, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
BA, Trinity International University
Other appointments have included assistant director of the Yale Glee Club and co-conductor of the Yale Marquand Chapel Choir, and principal assistant conductor of the Yale Camerata. His DMA thesis research focused on the musical-political interpretation of Henry Purcell's anthems. He has studied conducting with Dominick DiOrio, Walter Huff, Betsy Burleigh, Jeffrey Douma, Marguerite Brooks, David Hill, and Masaaki Suzuki, and has prepared choruses for Marin Alsop, Marguerite Brooks, Jeffrey Douma, Arthur Fagen, and William Boughton. McNeil's other musical interests include new music, music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the practice of continuo realization.
An experienced k-12 educator, McNeil taught for five years at a private school in the northern suburbs of Chicago, where chaired the Fine Arts department, taught junior and senior high school choir, band, and drama, as well as elementary general music and choir.
McNeil and his wife, Chelsey, along with their six children, reside in Wheat Ridge.
Degrees:
DMA, Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music
MM, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
BA, Trinity International University
