Kirby Weimer

Kirby is a recent addition to Center Stage Opera and brings with him over 30 years of singing experience. He has sung with choral groups in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Florida and overseas. Among the many choral works he has performed are J.S. Bach’s Mass in B minor, Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, Beethoven’ Ninth Symphony, Orff’s Carmina Burana, and Mendelssohn’s Elijah. He has twice toured Europe with the chorus from Penn State University. He has performed in Bellini’s Norma and played the dual roles of Montano and Ludovico in Verdi’s Otello.  He has also performed the role of Melchior in Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors.  Most recently he was Raimondo in Donizetti’s Lucia Di Lammermoor.  Light opera is also in his repertoire. He has performed numerous Gilbert and Sullivan characters as well as Jesus in Haugen’s Song of Mark.  Kirby is the featured soloist for the York Symphony Chorus and Chamber Singers.
                                                                       
Kirby completed his undergraduate work at Penn State University and graduate work at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana. An ordained Lutheran minister, Kirby has served as a chaplain in the US Army and currently is the Director of Educational Services at Paradise School for Boys, Abbottstown, PA.