Tim Semanik

Timothy Semanik currently serves as music director for the Bradley  Symphony Orchestra, the Northwest Symphony Orchestra, and the Salt  Creek Chamber Orchestra. He was previously music director for the  Carleton College Orchestra, the University of Chicago Chamber Orches tra, the Northern Illinois University Philharmonic, and the Central Illi nois Youth Symphony. Mr. Semanik has appeared as guest conductor  with the Colorado Symphony and Chorus, the San Diego Symphony, the  Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, the Elgin Symphony, the El gin Master Chorale, the Chicago Youth Symphony, the Pacific Sympho ny Institute and Youth Orchestra, and the orchestras at Northwestern  University and the University of Michigan.  

Mr. Semanik is currently in his sixteenth season as music director of the  Savoyaires. Additional operatic credits include productions with Winter  Opera St. Louis, Festival Opera, Light Opera Works, Great Lakes Lyric  Opera, Ann Arbor Opera, Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company, Comic  

Opera Guild, Ann Arbor Civic Theater, Opera in the Ozarks, Bradley  University, Northwestern University, the University of Michigan, and  California State University, Fullerton. He has conducted numerous  choral ensembles including the Pacific Chorale, the Bradley Community  Chorus, the California State University Singers and Men’s Chorus and  has held music director positions for numerous church music programs,  including his current position at the First United Methodist Church of La  Grange.  

Mr. Semanik holds a doctoral degree in orchestral conducting from  Northwestern University, a master’s degree in orchestral conducting  from the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Arts in Music Edu cation and a Bachelor of Music in Music Performance from California  State University, Fullerton. He was a member of the conducting class at  the Tanglewood Music Center and a recipient of the Bruno Walter  Scholarship at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.