Dr. David Mennicke
Professor of Music
College of Arts and Sciences
Dr. David L. Mennicke is in his 18th year as Director of Choral Studies at Concordia University, St. Paul, where he is also Music Department Chair. Under his direction, The Concordia choirs have performed at eight state and regional music conventions and five times with the Minnesota Orchestra. In May 2000, the Christus Chorus sang at Gaude Mater, Poland's annual international festival of sacred music (one of only two U.S. choirs so invited). In May 2004, the Christus Chorus performed by invitation for the Pentecost Vespers at the St. Thomas Kirche in Leipzig, Germany. They performed in the November 2006 concerts in honor of F. Melius Christiansen at Minneapolis' Orchestra Hall, along with the college choirs of St. Olaf, Concordia (Moorhead), Augsburg, and Gustavus Adolphus.
A 1983 summa cum laude graduate of St. Olaf College, he taught 7-12 grade music in Benson, MN. His Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees are from the University of Arizona. He has been the Director of the Adult and Youth Choirs at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Minneapolis since 1996.
The American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) of Minnesota named him "Outstanding Young Director of the Year" in 1992 and recipient of their "Creative Programming Award" in 1996. He was the guest conductor of the 1999-2000 Minnesota ACDA/MMEA All-State Children's Choir and guest conductor of the National Lutheran Choir in 1998 and 2006. He has been guest conductor and/or clinician for over 150 choral/vocal festivals. A tenor soloist, he is a member of the Grammy Award-winning Oregon Bach Festival Chorus and a section leader in the Minnesota Chorale. He has choral arrangements and articles published by Concordia, Morningstar, ALCM, and AGEHR.
David resides in St. Paul, near the Concordia campus, with this wife, Katherine, and their three daughters, Susanna, MaryLynn, and Christine.
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