John Wack has been a professional Music Minister in churches in California and Colorado since 1978. He moved to Wisconsin in 1998 to be Music Minister at Faith Community Church of Fort Atkinson, WI. He received his BA in vocal performance from Corban College (Salem, OR) and his MA in Voice and Choral Conducting from San Jose State University in San Jose, CA where he studied conducting with Dr. Charlene Archibeque. He has done doctoral work at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he studied conducting with Drs. Linn Whitten and Lawrence Kaptein and vocal pedagogy with Barbara Doscher.

John has been with the Festival Choir since 1998 in the capacity of singer, bass section leader and soloist. Before coming to Wisconsin he was a principal soloist and assistant conductor with the Colorado Chorale of Denver and the San Jose State Alumni Chorale. While at the University of Colorado he was baritone soloist in Stravinsky’s Les Noce. He performed with the San Jose Symphony Chorus for eleven years and has been soloist with the Sinfonia Orchestra of San Francisco, the Littleton (Colorado) Orchestra, and in the Vail Summer Music Festival production of Turandot with the Rochester (NY) Philharmonic.