Daniel Weeks maintains an active performing schedule while being a member of the voice faculty at the University of Louisville.  In this past operatic season he has sung the role of Reverend John Rankin in the Cincinnati Opera’s world premiere of Rise for Freedom: The John P. Parker Story, Father Confessor in Kentucky Opera’s production of Dialogues of the Carmelites, and Count Almaviva with the Belleayre Music Festival’s production of Il barbiere di Siviglia.  On the concert stage, he performed Handel’s Messiah  with the Pittsburgh Symphony, the world premiere of Lincoln at Ease, by Peter Schickele with the Louisville Orchestra, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, with the Akademicki Zespół Muzyczny in Gliwice, Poland, and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, at Carnegie Hall with John Rutter and Mid-America Productions.  In January, he and pianist Naomi Oliphant (see right), toured Poland and the Czech Republic with their recital entitled, “Women of Firsts,” while supporting the University of Louisville Opera Department’s joint production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, with the Szymanowsky Akademy of Katowice, Poland. 

    Mr. Weeks has sung with opera companies including the Cincinnati Opera, Florentine Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Kentucky Opera, Nevada Opera, and San Francisco’s Western Opera Theater among others.  As a concert performer, the symphonies he has performed with include;  the Houston Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony,  the Columbus Symphony, the Louisville Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Florida Orchestra, the Kentucky Symphony, the Xalapa Symphony (Mexico), and the National Youth Orchestra of Caracas, Venezuela.  In 1999, he was a national finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and the winner of the National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist Competition.  In 2000, the Marilyn Horne Foundation presented him in his New York debut recital.   For the next three years, he and pianist, Donna Loewy, traveled the country performing recitals and residencies for the foundation and for NFMC.  Mr. Weeks is committed to teaching and performing and is a passionate advocate for Art Song recitals.  He resides in Kentucky with his wife and two sons.