Nils Neubert

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Tenor Nils Neubert, DMA, was born and raised in Hamburg, Germany, and is active as a performer, language and interpretation coach, educator, scholar, and administrator in the United States and abroad. He serves on the faculties of the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, and has coached frequently at the Music Academy of the West.

Recent projects include Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos and Elektra with the Metropolitan Opera, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Musica Sacra and the New York Philharmonic, Mahler’s second and Beethoven’s Ninth symphonies, and Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Oratorio Society of New York, Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel with the Aspen Music Festival and School, and Weber’s Der Freischütz with the Wolf Trap Opera Company. He has also coached for Heartbeat Opera (Fidelio), Liederkranz Opera Theatre (Das Rheingold, Der Vampyr, Zemire und Azor), The Juilliard School (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Der Schauspieldirektor, Wozzeck-Bruchstücke) and Manhattan School of Music (Die Zauberflöte, Der Kaiser von Atlantis).

Publications as author/contributor include chapters, articles, translations, reviews, liner notes, and educational sound materials in the fields of musicology, music education, language diction, voice pedagogy, musical performance/interpretation/analysis, and exile studies with Bärenreiter, Brill, Henle, Nimbus Records, Oxford University Press, Rowman & Littlefield, the Journal of Singing, Music Education Research, and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society Journal. His dissertation on the song composer Max Kowalski (1882–1956) was nominated for the CUNY Graduate Center’s Barry S. Brook Award; he earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the Juilliard School and Teachers College, Columbia University, respectively.

Nils Neubert holds a full-time appointment at the Manhattan School of Music, where he serves as Faculty Coordinator for Affiliated Studies in Vocal Arts and Collaborative Piano. In 2025, he completes a decade of service as a board member, past officer, and past president of NATS-NYC. He resides in New York City with his wife, pianist Yuri Kim Neubert.