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Dr. Wieck has to support Dr. Wieck received her Bachelors in Music also directed WSU productions of Tintypes, Fresh, Fragrant, the arts Education at University of South Dakota- The Secret Garden, Company and this past and Always Her Favorite in our Vermillion. After teaching public school for summer’s She Loves Me. Currently she is community two years, she attended University of preparing Sondheim’s Into the Woods for Nebraska-Lincoln, where she received a Mom’s Weekend at WSU. 800.743.3544 Master of Music degree and a Doctor of Besides her experience conducting in the 208.743.3544 Coleman Oil Musical Arts degree in Vocal Performance. Company public schools, Dr. Wieck has held several Gayla Lamb Dyna Mart She has studied voice with Sylvia Plyler Owner Stores church choir positions, as well Assistant at University of Cincinnati Conservatory 812 Main Street Conductor of the Evansville Symphony Fueling Our Community of Music, Donna Harler-Smith at University Lewiston, Idaho 83501 Chorus. Ms. Wieck is an active recitalist of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Sharon Papian at and adjudicator throughout the region and University of South Dakota-Vermillion. a member of the National Association of On the stage, Ms. Wieck has performed Teachers of Singing and Music Educators leading roles in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, National Conference. 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, and various operatic arias. Since coming to WSU, she has performed with the Washington Idaho Symphony and Chorale as the soprano soloist in Poulenc’s Gloria, Verdi’s Requiem and Bizet’s Carmen. In April she will be Our Business Supporters The Idaho-Washington Concert Chorale Altos Basses Kathy Anderson Alice Barbut Leo Ames Allen Alstad Nancy Beebe Cheryl Blackburn Erol Barbut Walter Asbe Marilyn Bingham Susan Bohm Gary Bingham Miles Dresser The Wild Ivy Tecla Blood Donna Brandmeyer Kevin Brackney Ryan Johnson Nance Ceccarelli Janet Brandt Tom Brandt John Jordan We’ll make your gift giving easy this year. Beth Day Debbie Brudie Patrick Douglas Kirk McMichael Heather Dixon Elinor Butcher Bill Dugger Rich Miller Remember… “It’s all in the details.” Meredyth Goodwin Judy Campbell John Haugen Jim Mueller Monique C. 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