Thomas Neenan, Conductor
Thomas
Neenan is Music Director at The Parish of St. Matthew (Episcopal) in Pacific
Palisades, California; Music Director and Conductor of The St. Matthew’s
Chamber Orchestra, and Lecturer in Music History and Music Theory at California
Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena. He has been Music Director
of St. Matthew’s Parish since 1981 and Lecturer in Music at Caltech
since 1991.
Mr. Neenan holds degrees from California State University, Northridge, and from UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) where he was honored with an Outstanding Academic Achievement Award and was a prizewinner in the Atwater-Kent Performance Competition. He includes among his teachers David Britton, Thomas Harmon and Delores Stevens, Jean Langlais, and Ernst-Ulrich von Kameke. As a recital organist he has performed in the United States as well as in Germany, France, The Netherlands, Japan and Switzerland.
At Caltech Mr. Neenan teaches a full complement of music courses including a year-long survey of Music History, a year-long Music Theory sequence and a variety of special topics, including History of Opera, Major Figures in Music, Choral-Orchestral Literature, Chamber Music, and others.
In 2001 he was honored by the Associated Students of California Institute of Technology with an ASCIT Outstanding Teaching Award. He has been a featured speaker on the Los Angeles Philharmonic's "Upbeat Live" pre-concert presentations and for the Philharmonic’s Organ Recital Series.
With the St. Matthew Parish Choir and St. Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra he has premiered more than a dozen works, including those by Maria Newman, Mark Falcone, David Newman, Mary Lou Newmark, Sasha Matson, Thomas Pasatieri, Craig Phillips, Joseph Curiale, Roger Bourland, David Hurd, Gerald Near, Paul Chihara and John O’Reilly.
Mr. Neenan and the Choir of St. Matthew’s Parish toured Central during the summer of 2003 singing services and concerts in Budapest, Tabor (CZ), Prague, Leipzig (St. Thomas), Dresden (Frauenkirche) and Naumburg (St. Wenzel’s)and toured England, Wales and Ireland in July 2006.
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