David Puderbaugh
Assistant Professor
Asst. Director of Choral Activities
david-puderbaugh@uiowa.edu

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David Puderbaugh

David Puderbaugh is assistant director of Choral Activities at The University of Iowa, where he conducts Camerata, teaches graduate choral literature, and assists in administration of the choral program. A native Iowan, Dr. Puderbaugh holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa), a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting and Pedagogy from The University of Iowa. His teachers include Timothy Stalter, David Rayl, and Aimee Beckmann-Collier. Dr. Puderbaugh also is Music Director of Chamber Singers of Iowa City, an ensemble that focuses on choral/orchestral repertory, having recently performed Beethoven’s Mass in C Major, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s The Creation, and Orff’s Carmina Burana.

Dr. Puderbaugh’s current research interest centers on Estonian choral music, a fascination that resulted in a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct dissertation research on that country’s national song festivals during the Soviet occupation. His thesis work also garnered him The University of Iowa’s inaugural Marcus Bach Fellowship. Dr. Puderbaugh is interested in bringing the Baltic region’s vast choral treasury to the United States through performance as well as the creation of performing and critical editions.

In addition to his conducting and scholarly activities, Dr. Puderbaugh is an active tenor soloist, performing in the Midwest and in Estonia. His recent solo credits include Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s The Creation, Mozart’s C Minor Mass, and Schütz’s St. John Passion (Evangelist). In Estonia, Dr. Puderbaugh premiered several works by contemporary Estonian composers in the 2005 new music festival Eesti Muusika Päevad, broadcast on national radio and television, and in April 2006 he returned to Estonia, appearing in performances of Orazio Vecchi’s madrigal comedy L’Amfiparnaso, sponsored by the national concert series Eesti Kontsert.

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