Dr. George Tepping
Contact information - Telephone 715/845-6279 ext 101
Email: director@wausauconservatory.org
- Instructional duties: Executive Director of the Conservatory and Artist/Instructor of voice,
- Degrees: Bachelor of Music in vocal performance - Ohio State University; Master of Music in vocal performance - Ohio State University; Doctor of Music Arts degree in vocal performance/pedagogy - University of Iowa.; Honorary degree as Cantor - K.K. B'nai Yeshrun ( Ohio).
- Professional affiliations: National Association of Teachers of Singing, National Opera Association, and College Music Society
Master Adjudicator for the Wisconsin School Music Association, - Performances: Sixteen years as a Spiel Tenor and tenor soloist with numerous European opera companies and American symphonies with performances of over sixty different opera and oratorio roles
He was previously Executive Vice President and Operational Director of the American Institute of Musical Studies - Graz, Austria; and Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Opera for Miami University. Voice student of Herald Stark, Irma Cooper, and William Whitesides. Advanced coaching with Joan Dornemann (Met Opera), Marguerite Meyerowitz (Met Opera), Craig Rutenberg (Met Opera), David Lutz (Vienna State Opera) and Heinz Sosnitza (Essen/Frankfurt Operas). Tepping has served as Musical Director for the Wausau Community Theatre productions of Carousel and Fiddler on the Roof and in the spring of 1997, he served as Musical Director for the WCM/WCT combined production of Hansel and Gretel and Amahl and the Night Visitors in 2001. During the summers 1999 and 2004, he served as a jury judge for the International Meistersinger Vocal Competition in Graz, Austria. Adjudicates at many district and state festivals in addition to being a regular choral clinician. He has taught voice for over thirty-five years. He has held the position of Executive Director/voice instructor since January 1991.