William A. Wyman, Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Nebraska Wesleyan University where he has conducted the Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir for 31 years. He completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at Bethany College, W. Va., and Master's and Doctor of Musical Arts degree in voice at West Virginia University. He has also studied at Ohio State University and Westminster Choir College.

His principal voice teachers include David Lloyd, Thomas Hayward, and Jon Crain; he has studied choral conducting with Robert Shaw, Wilhelm Ehmann and Eric Ericson. Prior to coming to Nebraska Wesleyan, Dr. Wyman taught at Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio; Wester Virginia University; Bethany College; and North Hills High Schoo, Pittsburgh, Pa.

In 1983-1984, he received a prestigious appointment as Fulbright Scholar in Vocal Music lecturing in Seoul, Korea, at Seoul national University. He was invited to Nagasaki, Japan as guest conductor of the Nagasaki Orchestra and Chorus. His choirs have been critically acclaimed in such cultural centers as Vienna and Salzburg, Austria; St. Petersburg, Russia; Prague, Czechoslovakia; Ontario; Hong Kong, Tokyo and Nagasaki, Japan; Philadelphia; Washington, D.C.; Rochester and New York City; Chicago; Los Angeles; St. Louis; Milwaukee, and Dallas. In April 1995, Wyman made his New York debut conducting a performance of Haydn's "The Creation" at Avery Fisher hall with the 330-voice Lincoln at Lincoln Center Choir and the Westside Orchestra. He returned in 2001 to conduct a program of American compositions performed by five community choirs and the Westside Orchestra. Dr. Wyman is a life member of the American Choral Directors' Association, having served as a National Committee Chair and Convention Program Chair. In 1996 he served as Convention Chair for the North Central Division. He is also a membr of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Music Educators National Conference and the Organization of American Kodály Educators.

In 1996 the Nebraska Choral Directors' Association selected Dr. Wyman as the outstanding choral director of the year. In 1997 he received an Alumni Achievement Award in Music from Bethany College. In 1999 his faculty peers elected him to membership in the honor society Phi Kappa Phi. He was elected to the Nebraska Music Education Hall of Fame in the fall of 2004, and received the Mayor's Arts Award for Arts Leadership in June, 2005.

Dr. Wyman is active as a clinician and guest conductor. He has served as a grants reviewer for the Nebraska Arts Council and South Dakota Arts Council. In addition to the University Choir, he also conducts the Nebraska Wesleyan Chamber Singers, the Lincoln Civic Choir and the St. Paul United Methodist Chancel Choir. A native of Philadelphia, he is listed in Who's Who in the Midwest in American Music and other Who's Who publications. He is married to Tamara Riley Wyman. They have a fourteen-year-old daughter, Rylie Kathryn.