James Wilson

• Viterbo Universtiy Music Department is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (50 + years)
• Artist-faculty with extensive performing and teaching experience
• Graduates are employed as teachers in schools and studios (elementary, secondary, and university), sing professionally for opera houses in the U.S. and abroad, own their own businesses, and more
• Graduates receive assistantships for elite graduate programs not limited to the Julliard School, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music, Boston Conservatory of Music, University of Minnesota, Ball State University, and Cincinnati College - Conservatory of Music
• International and regional touring for choral ensembles
• Performance opportunities include two main stage productions, a chamber opera series, two show choirs, three repertoire choirs, student recitals, and competitions
• Project-based learning as hallmark of classroom and studio experience
• State-of-the-art facilities and technologies for teaching, rehearsing, performing, and recording
• Students have opportunity to work with nationally/internationally acclaimed visiting artists including Cynthia Lawrence, Scott McCoy, John De Haan, Karen Brunssen, Brian Horne, Steven Smith, Ken Bozeman, Edrie Means Weekley, Mitra Sadeghpour, Tanya Kruse Ruck, Mary Saunders Barton, and Norman Spivey
• Talent scholarships available to music majors
• Vocal training in either classical or contemporary commercial styles of singing

Dr. James Wilson is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Department at Viterbo University where he directs the Concert Choir, 9th Street Singers, and Viterbo Choral Arts. Wilson also teaches conducting, choral methods, diction, and serves as the artistic director for the annual A Viterbo Christmas performances.

Prior to his coming to Viterbo, Wilson served as Professor of Music and Director of Choirs at Wesley College, a private liberal arts college located in Dover, Delaware. For ten years he served as Artistic Director of the Delaware Choral Society, an organization of 100 singers with whom he performed works such as Handel’s Messiah, Orff’s Carmina Burana, and Haydn’s The Creation. In 2014, Wilson founded and directed the music nonprofit organization The Kent Chamber Choir, Delaware’s premier all-auditioned community choral ensemble.

As a baritone soloist, Wilson has performed with Brandywine Baroque, Melomanié, the Manchester Choral Society of New Hampshire, the Braintree Choral Society, the Masterworks Chorale of Boston, The Marsh Chapel Choir at Boston University, the Choral Society of Greensboro, North Carolina and the Voices of Omaha, Nebraska. Most recently he has performed in a series of multimedia performances of Franz Schubert’s Winterreise, produced in collaboration with Wesley adjunct art professor Joshua Nobiling and pianist David Richardson.

Wilson’s education includes a B.A. in voice performance from The Hartt School, a M.A. in choral conducting from Boston University, and a D.M.A. in choral conducting from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His teachers and mentors include Ann Howard Jones, Peter Eklund, and Paul Head.

James Wilson, D.M.A. (pronouns he/him)

Associate Professor of Music

Chair, Department of Music

Director of Choral Studies

Fine Arts Center, Room 407

Phone: 336-549-4226

music@viterbo.edu