Dennis Frederick Neufeld
1950
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Dennis Neufeld, a tenor, has
maintained a voice studio in Yucaipa, California, since 1973, the year he
graduated from Loma Linda University with a B.A. in conducting and voice.
Neufeld took additional graduate study in music at Redlands University, where
he studied conducting under Jon Robertson and presented a graduate recital in
conducting in 1985. He participated in
Herbert Blomstedt Orchestral Conducting Workshops at
LLU in 1972 and 1974 and in 1977 attended both the Blomstedt
workshop and a choral conducting workshop under Sir David Willcocks.
He has held several
conducting posts, including assistant conductor with the Brentwood/Westwood
Symphony in 1977 and conductor of the Nova Schola Cantorum in Loma Linda for three years between 1975 and
1980; the La Scala Lyric Opera Company in Glendale,
California, in 1982-1983; and the LLU Fine Arts Festival Piano Orchestra from
1992-1994. He has also been a soloist and choir conductor in Adventist,
Presbyterian, Baptist, and United Methodist churches from the 1970s to the
present.
In 1983 Neufeld served as
assistant director and in 1984 as director of the Redlands Boys Choir. From
1985 to 1990, he was a substitute teacher in the Redlands and the Yucaipa
unified school districts and in the 1994-1995 school year directed the 7th
and 8th grade choir at Loma Linda Junior Academy. He taught music
and drama at Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School in San Bernardino in
2000-2001. Since 2005 he has directed the band and taught voice and woodwinds
at Mesa Grande Academy.
Neufeld has worked as a
professional portrait and commercial photographer based in Yucaipa since 1982.
Until 1991 he worked as a photographer of children and from 1991 to 1993 in
Media Services at LLU. He was a lighting consultant for photography in the Loma
Linda Health Services Office of Advancement, a position he held from 2002-2010.
Since 1997 Neufeld has been
managing director, associate instructor, and author for Spirit of Truth
Ministries. He also operated AngelSongs Ministries, a
Neufeld Family Music Ministry, from 1999 to 2010.
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Sources: Information
provided by Dennis Neufeld, 2007, 2012.