Axel Theimer

Axel Theimer (born March 10, 1946 in St. Johann in Tirol ) is an American composer, conductor, choir director, music teacher and singer of Austrian origin.

Theimer had piano lessons from the age of four. At the age of seven he became a member of the Vienna Boys' Choir , to which he belonged until he was fourteen. He then attended the secondary school of the Boys' Choir, where he took further singing and piano lessons and studied cello / double bass, and after graduating, began studying veterinary medicine at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna . There he first became a member and later head of the Chorus Viennensis , a male choir made up of former members of the Vienna Boys' Choir. With this and the Concentus musicus he led a. a. Bach's Mass in B minor and St. John's Passion . He was also a soloist in the choir of the Vienna State Opera .

In 1969 he became a member of the music department at Saint John's University in Minnesota, where he also completed a bachelor's degree. He then studied choral conducting with Thomas Lancaster and singing with Roy Schuessler at the University of Minnesota, and worked as choir director and teacher of teaching theory, piano, singing, conducting, choral education and vocal literature at Saint John's University and the College of St. Benedict . He also founded a mixed Chamber Choir , the Kantorei Choir Ensemble and the Amadeus Chamber Symphony, and is Artistic Director and Conductor of the National Catholic Youth Choir and Director of The VoiceCare Network . In 2004 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame for the Minnesota Music Educators Association . Theimer composed and arranged numerous choral works. With the guitarist O. Nick Raths he recorded two CDs with German and Austrian folk, children's and Christmas carols.

Choral works

A Red, Red Rose
Ave Maria
Cantate Domino / O Bone Jesu
Christmas motet
From Tomorrow On
Gaudeamus Igitur
Hodie Christ Natus Est
I Did Not Die
Kyrie
Lullaby, Jesus, My Dear One
Lullaby, oh, Lullaby
Mass
Missa Brevis
O Come, Let Us Adore Him
O magnum mystery
Psalm 130
See the World through Children's Eyes
The Birds
The eyes of all
The Holly and the Ivy
Tu Est Petrus
Two Poems by Carl Sandburg
The Star-Spangled Banner
Three Songs from Asia
Vere Languores Nostros
What Shall I Give
What Wondrous Love Is This

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personal data
SURNAME	Theimer, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American composer, conductor, choir director, music teacher and singer of Austrian origin
DATE OF BIRTH	March 10, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Johann in Tirol