Music Director Emeritus
B. Neil Davis’s gifts for teaching, conducting, and singing have inspired and influenced musicians and listeners for over five decades. Mr. Davis earned his Masters Degree from Kent State University, receiving the Outstanding Music Education Alumni Award. As Supervisor of Music for the Lakewood Public Schools, Mr. Davis won the Distinguished Service Award from the Ohio Music Education Association and induction into the Lakewood Schools Teaching Hall of Fame. A student of the late Pauline Thesmacher, Mr. Davis has performed with the Robert Page Singers, taught at Cleveland State University, and currently teaches voice at both Lakewood High School and at The Beck Center for the Arts. In 2006, he received the Ohio Choral Directors Association Distinguished Service Award for his remarkable contributions to choral arts and to the lives of his students. Mr. Davis lives in Lakewood, Ohio with Nancy, his wife of 54 years.
Since 1985, Mr. Davis has served as Musical Director at the West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church, leading the West Shore Church Choir in special presentations of Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Poulenc’s Gloria, and other great works. In celebration of this twenty-second and final year at West Shore, the church is proud to have hosted an Artists Series featuring the West Shore Adult Choir performing with students, friends, and choral groups from Mr. Davis’s 50 year career.
The staff and Board of West Shore was proud to bestow upon Neil the title of Music Director Emeritus and also to continue this Artists Series as the B. Neil Davis Artists Series. Find out more about this by following its link.
