Music Director

David Puderbaugh has served as Music Director of Chamber Singers of Iowa City since 2002. During his tenure, the choir has performed notable masterworks, including Haydn's The Creation, Handel's Messiah, Orff's Carmina Burana, Beethoven's Mass in C Major, and Verdi’s Messa da Requiem. Puderbaugh is Assistant Director of Choral Activities at The University of Iowa, where he teaches graduate choral literature and undergraduate choral conducting, conducts the UI Camerata chorus, and assists in the administration of the choral program.

A native Iowan, Puderbaugh holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Drake University, a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting and Pedagogy from The University of Iowa. His teachers include Timothy Stalter, David Rayl, and Aimee Beckmann-Collier.

Puderbaugh's research interest centers on Estonian choral music, a fascination that resulted in a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct dissertation research on Estonia's national song festivals during the Soviet occupation. His thesis work also garnered him The University of Iowa's inaugural Marcus Bach Fellowship. Puderbaugh is interested in bringing the Baltic region's vast choral treasury to the United States through performance as well as the creation of performing and critical editions.

Puderbaugh is also an active tenor soloist, performing in the U.S. and in Estonia. In Estonia, Dr. Puderbaugh premiered works by contemporary Estonian composers in the 2005 new music festival “Eesti Muusika Päevad,” and more recently appeared in performances of Vecchi’s L’Amfiparnaso, sponsored by the Estonian national concert series Eesti Kontsert.

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