David Puderbaugh

David John Puderbaugh (* 1972 in Iowa ) is an American choir director, music teacher and scholar.

Puderbaugh studied music education at Drake University in Des Moines , Iowa , choral conducting at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and choral conducting and education at the University of Iowa . Timothy Stalter , David Rayl and Aimee Beckmann-Collier were among his teachers . He is Professor of Choral Literature and Conducting and Associate Choir Director at the University of Iowa and directs the Chamber Singers of Iowa City , with whom he has performed major choral works from the Classical and Romantic periods.

His interest in Estonian choral music brought him to the country in the late 1980s, where he witnessed the Singing Revolution . He later worked as a musical advisor on a Sky Films Incorporated film about the event ( The Singing Revolution , 2008). In Estonia, he conducted several world premieres of works by contemporary Estonian composers at the Eesti Muusika Päevad Festival , which were broadcast on radio and television.

Puderbaugh also published compositions by little-known Estonian composers in the United States and performed them. He also appears as a tenor soloist and is active as a music critic (including writing the Recorded Sound Reviews column for the Choral Journal ). He is u. a. Member of the National Collegiate Choral Organization , the College Music Society and the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies .

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