Nils Neubert

Tenor Nils Neubert was born and raised in Hamburg, Germany, and is active as a performer, coach, and educator in the United States and abroad. He teaches German diction at the Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music and served as German coach at the Music Academy of the West for seven summers (2016–2022). He joined the Glimmerglass Festival and the Wolf Trap Opera Company in that same capacity during 2020 and 2022, respectively, and the music staff of the Metropolitan Opera in 2022. Previously, he also taught at the Mannes College of Music, William Paterson University, Kaufman Music Center, and the Music Conservatory of Westchester, as well as the Summit Music Festival and Potomac Vocal Institute (USA), the International Academy of Music (Italy), and the Puigcerdà and Burgos International Music Festivals (Spain). He has led residencies, workshops, and master classes with organizations and opera companies in North America and Europe and has published original writings, translations, reviews, and educational sound materials in the fields of musicology, music education, language diction, voice pedagogy, musical performance/interpretation/analysis, and exile studies.

Nils Neubert holds degrees from the Juilliard School (BM), Teachers College, Columbia University (MA), and the CUNY Graduate Center (DMA). He also trained at the Internationale Sommerakademie Mozarteum, Bel Canto at Caramoor, the Scuola Leonardo Da Vinci, the UMass Amherst Arts Extension Service, the FernUniversität Hagen, and the Harvard Extension School and is an alumnus of the Walnut Hill School for the Arts and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. He is a student of Dr. Robert C. White, Jr., and is married to pianist Yuri Kim.