Dr. Axel Theimer, a native of Austria, where he was a member of the Vienna Boys Choir, is now in his 39th year on the music faculty at St. Johns University and the College of St. Benedict. He received much of his training in Vienna, continued his studies at Saint Johns University and completed graduate degrees at the University of Minnesota - MFA in Choral Conducting and DMA in Vocal Performance.

He is an active recitalist, has presented master classes, workshops and seminars for state, regional, national and international music conventions and conferences and has conducted All State Choirs, Choral Festivals and Honor Choirs throughout the United States and the Far East.

At St. Johns and St. Bens he directs the CSB/SJU Chamber Choir and SJU Mens Chorus and teaches choral conducting, applied voice and vocal pedagogy.

In addition to his professional activities at SJU and CSB he is founder and music director of Kantorei (www.Kantorei.net), a Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul) choral ensemble, of Amadeus Chamber Symphony, a chamber orchestra for Central Minnesota musicians and audiences and is music director of the National Catholic Youth Choir (www.CatholicYouthChoir.org). He is on the faculty, and is currently Executive Director of The VoiceCare Network. (www.voicecarenetwork.org) In 2001, he received the MN - ACDA Choir Director of the Year Award and, in 2004, was inducted to the Minnesota Music Educators Associations MMEA Hall of Fame.

Original compositions and arrangements for Mens Chorus, Womens, Mixed and Childrens Choir are published by and available from Alliance Publications, Inc. Fish Creek, WI. (www.apimusic.org).

The Axel Theimer Choral Series

A Red, Red Rose AP-1574 SSAA
Ave Maria AP-1575 SSAA
Cantate Domino / O Bone Jesu AP-1928
TTBB a cap
Christmas Motet AP-1608 SAB a cap
From Tomorrow On AP-1589 SATB
Gaudeamus Igitur AP-1408 TTBB
Hodie Christus Natus Est AP-1573 TTB a cap
I Did Not Die AP-1576 SSA/Pno
Kyrie AP-1577 SSA/Org
Lullaby, Jesus, My Dear One AP-1845 Unis/Vln/Pno or SATB
Lullaby, Oh, Lullaby AP-1578
Unison Choir
Mass   AP-1605 SSAA   
Missa Brevis   AP-1613 TTBB
O Come, Let Us Adore Him   AP-1611 SATB+Solo a cap
O Magnum Mysterium   AP-1607 SATB/Brass Quintet   
Psalm 130   AP-1579 SATB
See the World through Childrens Eyes   AP-1580 SSA
The Birds   AP-1581 SSA/Baritone
The Eyes of All   AP-1582 SSAA
The Holly and the Ivy   AP-1407   TTBB
Tu Est Petrus   AP-1606 SATB/Brass 5
Two Poems by Carl Sandburg   AP-1610 SATB a cap
The Star-Spangled Banner   AP-1583 TTBB
Three Songs from Asia   AP-1841 SATB
Vere Languores Nostros   AP-1584 SSA + SATB/Organ
What Shall I Give   AP-1847 Unis/Pno or SATB
What Wondrous Love Is This   AP-1609 TTB

The Goshen College Chamber Choir has performed his music in four states. In the spring of 2001, his brass arrangement of Jesus, Lover of My Soul, was awarded first prize in the brass division of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals hymn composition competition. In addition to composing, Adam is an active song-leader and church musician. Morning Has Broken for mixed choir and trumpets is Adam’s first published work.

" A LONG, LOVING GAZE - CD AP-0103CD
" A LONG, LOVING GAZE - Unison AP-1451
" A NEW SONG - SATB, pno, gtr AP-1080

" BREATHE YOUR MYSTERY IN US - 2-pt Voc/Gtr/Pno AP-1086

" CAN YOU IMAGINE? Unison AP-1453

" CHANGE OUR HEARTS - Unison Choir/Gtr AP-1089

" CREATE A NEW HEART - Gtr/Voc AP-1082

" GENTLE ME, JESUS - Gtr/Unis-SATB-Pno
AP-1081

" HOPE IN THE LORD - Unison, Gtr AP-1088

" KEEP SINGIN' - Gtr-Voc/Pno AP-1083

" MASS of FORGIVENES AP-1087 SC

" MY LIFE (Ps. 23) - Unis/SATB Gtr/Pno
AP-1046

" RIVER OF WISDOM - Unison AP-1757

" TASTE THE FIRE AP-1079 2-pt Voc/Gtr/Pno
" TASTE THE FIRE CD
    " AP-027 CD Collection of Songs and Mass of Forgiveness
    " AP-028 CS Collection of Songs and Mass of Forgiveness

" THE CREATION - Gen. 1 (Musical Dramatic Presentation-SATB, Gtr, and Kybd AP-1022 (Set of Scores with CS)

" THE PASSION ACCDG TO JOHN (Dramatic Presentation for Good Friday) AP-816

" WAKE THE DAWN - Gtr/Voc AP-1085

The family lived in the Beskydy Mountains, in a region called Valassko (Wallachia). Slovakia was within walking distance. Because of this geographical proximity, the people of Valassko and western Slovakia had many things in common—mountains, dialects, songs, folk art, religious customs, schooling. Living in this rich environment had a profound influence on Godfrey Tomanek, the musician.

The folk songs were pure and sincere. Christmas trees were decorated with only home-made products. There were no piles of presents under the tree, but plenty of carols and singing, both in the churches and at home. Creches, some of them masterpieces of folk art, were displayed in almost every family, from Christmas Eve to February 2, the Feast of the Purification of Mary. That was the end of the season of the Nativity.

When twelve years old, Godfrey Tomanek went to Prague (Praha) for his studies—first, to the Academic Gymnasium for classical languages, and after World War II, to the State Conservatory of Music, in the organ and church music departments. His first organist position was at the Church of St. Thomas in Mala Strana (Lesser Town, Prague) when he was sixteen years of age.

Due to the political upheavals, Tomanek had to return to the USA in 1949. He lives in Conneticut having pursued a lifetime of service to the church as an organist-choir director besides being a piano technician. He remains an active composer now in his retirement years.

WINTER DANCE - Piano Solo
AP-537 $3.95