Teacher

Daniel Johnson-Wilmot is a Professor Emeritus of Music in the Music Department at Viterbo University and currently serving as a Visiting Professor at Viterbo. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Music from St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota and a Master of Music in Voice from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the founder of the La Crosse BoyChoir and the Three Rivers Girls Chorus. He was a Regional Governor of the North Central Region of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and has served on the National Conference and the National Student Auditions Committees of NATS. He was elected Vice-President of Membership on the national board of NATS in 2014 and was appointed National Student Auditions Coordinator at the 2014 National Conference. He chaired the Wisconsin NATS Student Auditions for more than thirty years.

He has appeared as a soloist with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Pro Arte Quartet, Fox Valley Symphony, Waukesha Symphony, La Crosse Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra. With the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra he sang the bass and baritone solos in Orff’s Carmina Burana, Beethoven’s Ninth symphony, Haydn’s Creation, Verdi Requiem, and Handel’s Messiah. His voice students have won over three hundred and fifty awards in the National Association of Teacher of Singing State, Regional and National Auditions and are frequent award winners in the District and Regional Metropolitan Opera Auditions and first and second place winners in Schubert Club Bruce Carlson Scholarship Competition.

Daniel Johnson-Wilmot is a Professor Emeritus of Music in the Music Department at Viterbo University. He is a NATS member and serves NATS as the National Student Auditions Coordinator. His voice students are frequent award winners in the National Association of Teacher of Singing State, Regional and National Auditions, the District and Regional Metropolitan Opera Auditions, the Schubert Club Bruce Carlson Scholarship Competition and the Classical Singer Competition.