Many Voices,
One Vision.

 

Nebraska Choral
Arts Society
Dr. David Batter

Conductor, Masterworks

David Batter, conductor of the Nebraska Choral Arts Society Masterworks Chorus, is also the founding conductor of the Omaha Chamber Singers.  He serves as Director of Music and Liturgy at St. Columbkille Catholic Church in Papillion, NE, and chorusmaster for the Omaha Symphony.

Batter has held teaching positions at the elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels and as music director/choirmaster at several Roman Catholic parishes in the Omaha area.  As choirmaster at St. Cecilia Cathedral, he assisted in the formation of the St. Cecilia Schola Cantorum. 

He has sung in the choruses of the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Opera Omaha, was a soloist at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York City with the Robert Shaw Workshop Choir at Westminster Choir College, and was a chorister and section leader of the acclaimed Robert Shaw Festival Chorus at Carnegie Hall for ten years.

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Batter has served on the board of the Nebraska Choral Directors Association.  He served on the steering committee for the 2006 North Central American Choral Directors Association convention, where he was producer and chorusmaster for the collaborative Mozart “Requiem” concert.  (The concert included the NCAS Masterworks Chorus.)  The Nebraska Choral Directors Association named him Choral Director of the Year in 2007.

Batter received the Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Nebraska-Omaha and the Master of Music degree from Kent State University.  He completed coursework for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Iowa
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