Recording Secretary
Thomas Weis
Showing his vocal versatility, Dr. Thomas J. Weis has appeared as leading man in Kiss Me Kate and The Music Man with The Heartland Festival in Platteville, Wisconsin, Grandpa Moss in Skylight Opera Theater’s production of The Tender Land, which aired on Wisconsin PBS in January 2003, and as Bass Soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Milwaukee Symphony. Thomas has performed leading and secondary roles with a wealth of operatic, oratorio and symphonic, and musical theatre companies in the Midwest and across the country. Thomas has sung as Bass Soloist in Bach’s Magnificat, Haydn’s The Creation, Verdi’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, Brahms’ Requiem, and more.
Rena Archwemety Beyer from The Capital Times, in a classical review of Dvorak’s Stabat Mater wrote, “Weis gave a moving bass solo in ‘Fac ut ardeat cor meum’. From his strong entrance with the brass section to the emotion he conveyed, his interpretation of the text was outstanding”.
Mr. Weis embodied the title role of Figaro in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Opera program’s Le Nozze di Figaro of W.A. Mozart. In the Opera Review for the Wisconsin State Journal, Jay Rath stated “As Figaro, Thomas Weis has a voice that is warm and mellow but with an edge like good black coffee”.
Thomas has been an active voice teacher and performer at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin for the past seventeen years, offering recitals, master classes, and numerous faculty collaborations. Dr. Weis is a member of NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing), and serves on the Wisconsin NATS board. Dr. Weis has recently accepted the added role of vocal coordinator and was the director of the Carroll University Men’s Chorus, which he founded the fall semester of 2014.
Thomas obtained a Doctorate of Musical Arts - Vocal Performance degree and an Opera Production minor from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied with Paul Rowe, William Farlow, and a plethora of internationally acclaimed faculty. His Masters of Music degree in Vocal Performance was earned from the University of Arizona under the tutelage of Dr. Lawrence Day, an early student of Berton Coffin. Undergraduate work was completed at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, where Thomas also auditioned and performed as an apprentice actor in the renowned Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival.
You can contact Thomas directly by clicking this link: tweiscu@gmail.com
Rena Archwemety Beyer from The Capital Times, in a classical review of Dvorak’s Stabat Mater wrote, “Weis gave a moving bass solo in ‘Fac ut ardeat cor meum’. From his strong entrance with the brass section to the emotion he conveyed, his interpretation of the text was outstanding”.
Mr. Weis embodied the title role of Figaro in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Opera program’s Le Nozze di Figaro of W.A. Mozart. In the Opera Review for the Wisconsin State Journal, Jay Rath stated “As Figaro, Thomas Weis has a voice that is warm and mellow but with an edge like good black coffee”.
Thomas has been an active voice teacher and performer at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin for the past seventeen years, offering recitals, master classes, and numerous faculty collaborations. Dr. Weis is a member of NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing), and serves on the Wisconsin NATS board. Dr. Weis has recently accepted the added role of vocal coordinator and was the director of the Carroll University Men’s Chorus, which he founded the fall semester of 2014.
Thomas obtained a Doctorate of Musical Arts - Vocal Performance degree and an Opera Production minor from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied with Paul Rowe, William Farlow, and a plethora of internationally acclaimed faculty. His Masters of Music degree in Vocal Performance was earned from the University of Arizona under the tutelage of Dr. Lawrence Day, an early student of Berton Coffin. Undergraduate work was completed at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, where Thomas also auditioned and performed as an apprentice actor in the renowned Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival.
You can contact Thomas directly by clicking this link: tweiscu@gmail.com
