Daniel Szelogowski

I have been a musician all my life; I always enjoyed singing (though my
stage fright as a child was terrible compared to now) and
did choir all throughout elementary and middle
school up until about 8th grade after moving to Wisconsin the previous
year.
Throughout these years I had accumulated multiple
different instruments, but guitar was the one that had stuck the most
when I got a
full-size electric guitar for my 15th birthday, and
have been playing since and now own bass, electric, acoustic, classical,
and 12
string guitars. By my sophomore year of high school I
had gotten back into choir and fell in love with it, especially since
it helped
me to get over my performance anxiety, also playing
guitar for some of our concerts. By junior year I had joined the a
capella choir,
and senior year I did solo & ensemble festival
and also joined 7th Heaven, the jazz choir, on top of a capella and
mixed choir. After
struggling to decide on an education major to do for
college, I decided music with a choral emphasis would be the most
enjoyable path
for me, and was highly encouraged to pursue such by
my high school choir director Mrs. Jan Knutson.


As it stands I am currently a member
of the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater Chamber
Singers under the direction of Dr. Robert Gehrenbeck, a participant in
sNATS/NATS
and have competed state-wide among other vocalists,
and am also learning piano. After passing the audition for my major, I
was also awarded
a $2000 scholarship for my musical abilities and
potential as a singer. I currently study voice under Professor Brian
Leeper, who has
immensely changed the way I sing and further
encouraged
my passion for singing. In November of 2017 I was
also given the opportunity to perform with singer/songwriter Judy
Collins as a member of her
ensemble for Amazing Grace and Song for Sarajevo. In
April of 2018, the UWW Chamber Singers, Concert Choir, and Symphony
Orchestra
combined to perform Ralph Vaughan William' "Toward
the Unkown Region" where we had performed with the highly-praised guest
conductor David Hoose,
who also conducted the Chamber Singers for our
performnce of Edward Elgar's "O Wild West Wind". In December of 2018,
the UWW Chamber Singers, Concert Choir,
and Symphony Orchestra performed Ralph Vaughan
Williams' "Fantasia on Christmas Carols", and the following March of
2019 we performed 3 world premieres
of choral works by fellow Chamber Singers student
Adam Taylor, and professor Dr. Christian Ellenwood of UWW. After these
pieces were performed, the
UWW Chamber Singers and Concert Choir combined with
the University of Northern Iowa and Moody Bible Institute's choirs,
combined with the Lake Geneva
Symphony Orchestra to perform the entirety of
Beethoven's 9th Symphony -- a project that had been started in 2010
where a Beethoven symphony was performed
by the orchestra each year, with this being the very
last in the series. I have also begun working on compositions of my
own, which will be added soon.