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Dr. Julie Anne WieckAssociate Professor of Music |
Dr. Julie Anne Wieck is an Associate Professor of Music at Washington State University. She teaches studio voice and directs the opera and musical theatre productions. Before coming to WSU in the fall of 1996, she taught at the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana.
Dr. Wieck received her Bachelors in Music Education at University of South Dakota-Vermillion. After teaching public school for two years, she attended University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she received a Master of Music degree and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Vocal Performance. She has studied voice with Sylvia Plyler at University of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Donna Harler-Smith at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Sharon Papian at University of South Dakota-Vermillion.
On the stage, Dr. Wieck has performed leading roles in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Verdi’s Falstaff, Menotti’s The Telephone and Amahl and the Night Visitors,Weill’s Street Scene, Herbert’s Naughty Marietta, Floyd’s Susannah, Strauss’s Die Fledermaus and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel. She has also appeared as a soloist with several orchestras, in Bach’s B Minor Mass, Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, Poulenc’s Gloria, Verdi’s Requiem, Bizet’s Carmen, Tchaikovsky’s “Letter Scene” from Eugene Onegin and various operatic arias. She has traveled internationally, performing in Canada, Russia, Ukraine,Czech Republic, Austria and Hungary. Dr. Wieck has recently been researching and performing music by Ukrainian composers after spending her professional leave in Kyiv, Ukraine, collaborating with faculty and students at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory or National Music Academy of Ukraine.
Dr. Wieck is an active recitalist, adjudicator and clinician throughout the region and President of the Inland Empire Regional Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. She is also a frequent presenter as a member at National Association for Music Educators Conferences.