Artistic Leadership

Mr. Neumann is currently in his twentieth year of teaching and is starting his fourteenth year as a member of the Toro Performing Arts Department. At MVHS, Mr. Neumann teaches beginning, intermediate, and advanced treble choirs, intermediate and advanced mixed choirs, and administers the dual enrollment piano program as a part of the music conservatory. Currently, he serves as the department chair for performing arts, a position he has held since 2025. 

He earned his Bachelor of Music Education degree from Central Michigan University in 2006. While at CMU, he sang with the Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, and, in 2004, toured with the CMU festival chorus to Carnegie Hall to perform Vaughan William’s Dona Nobis Pacem under the direction of Dr. Nina Nash-Robertson. He also served as an accompanist for solo vocalists and instrumentalists in recitals and master classes as well as accompanying all of the major choral ensembles on the campus of CMU. 

Since arriving in Arizona in 2007, Mr. Neumann has served as a public school music teacher. He holds professional affiliations with the Arizona Music Educators Association and the Arizona Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. He has served the AzMEA as a sightreading adjudicator for both the regional and all state choral auditions as well as the Vice President of All State Jazz and Show Activities. He has served AzACDA as the Cantaremos Honors Choir Chair and as Junior High/Middle School R & S Chair and currently serves the Western Division of ACDA as the R & R Co-Chair for High School Choirs.

Mr. Neumann completed his Master of Music Education Degree from Arizona State University, graduating magna cum laude. Newly awarded in December 2025, Mr. Neumann is now recognized as a National Board Certified Teacher, an honor held by only 4% of teachers nationally.

He has served various churches as assistant choir director, principal accompanist, handbell choir director, and organist. In addition, he runs a private studio for voice and piano where he also has had the privilege of teaching the Presto Program for Let’s Play Music. 

Mr. Neumann currently resides in Mesa with his wife and four children.