Bob Demaree joined the UW-Platteville faculty in 1992. Bob Demaree conducts the Chamber Choir, the Coro D'Angeli treble choir, and the Singing Pioneers bass choir, and teaches conducting and choral literature. Annual choral area events include the High School Choral Festival, choir tour, and performances of major choral/orchestral works.
Since 1995, Demaree has had six separate choirs chosen to appear at state or regional ACDA or NAfME conferences a total of 17 times. He has participated in over a dozen commissioning projects with composers such as Ivo Antognini, Susan LaBarr, Eric Barnum, and Eric Whitacre. In October of 2009, he conducted the WMEA High SchoolMixed Honors Choir and then was asked to lead the WMEA High School Treble Honors Choir in October of 2017.
He was a founder, artistic director, and singer in the Heartland Singers from 2002 to 2012. From 2009-2018, Dr. Demaree served as the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Dubuque Chorale, one of the Midwest’s premier community choirs. In the fall of 2018, he co-founded the 36-voice Midwest Choral Artists.
In 2019, WCDA named Demaree recipient of its highest honor, the Morris D. Hayes Lifetime Achievement Award. He has been named a recipient of the Alliant Energy/Underkofler Award for Teaching Excellence, a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indiana University Singing Hoosiers, the Phi Kappa Phi Excellence in Teaching Award, the Excellence in Service to Students Award from the National Society of Leadership and Success and UWP's Outstanding Advisor to a Student Organization Award. He has served terms as President of the North Central Division of ACDA and of WCDA.
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Bob Demaree
