A native of Aberdeen, South Dakota, Julie Anne Wieck is an Associate Professor of Music at Washington State University. She teaches studio voice, diction, opera workshop and vocal literature. Before coming to WSU in the fall of 1996, she taught at the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana.

Dr. Wieck received her Bachelors in Music Education at University of South Dakota-Vermillion. After teaching public school for two years, she attended University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she received a Master of Music degree and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Vocal Performance. She has studied voice with Sylvia Plyler at University of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Donna Harler-Smith at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Sharon Papian at University of South Dakota-Vermillion.

On the stage, Ms. Wieck has performed leading roles in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Verdi's Falstaff, Menotti's The Telephone and Amahl and the Night Visitors, Weill's Street Scene, Herbert's Naughty Marietta, Floyd's Susannah, Strauss's Die Fledermaus and Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel.. She has also appeared as a soloist with several orchestras, in Bach's B Minor Mass, Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream, Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, and various operatic arias. Since coming to WSU, she has performed with the Washington Idaho Symphony Orchestra and Chorale as the soprano soloist in Poulenc's Gloria, Verdi's Requiem and Bizet's Carmen. In April she will be singing Tchaikovsky's "Letter Scene" from Eugene Onegin with the Washington Idaho Symphony Orchestra.

As director of the WSU Opera Workshop program, Dr. Wieck has presented full productions of Carlisle Floyd's Susannah, Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, and Strauss's Die Fledermaus. Dr. Wieck has also directed WSU productions of Tintypes, The Secret Garden, Company and this past summer's She Loves Me. Currently she is preparing Sondheim's Into the Woods for Mom's Weekend at WSU.

Besides her experience conducting in the public schools, Dr. Wieck has held several church choir positions, as well Assistant Conductor of the Evansville Symphony Chorus. Ms. Wieck is an active recitalist and adjudicator throughout the region and a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and Music Educators National Conference.