Dan Johnson-Wilmot is a Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor of Music at Viterbo University in his fifty-third year in the Music Department. He was chosen as a Master Teacher for the NATS Intern program in 2019. In 2024, Dan received the Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award from Viterbo University and a Lifetime Achievement Award from NATS at the National Conference in Knoxville. As a soloist he has performed with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Pro Arte Quartet, Fox Valley Symphony, Waukesha Symphony, La Crosse Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra. With the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra, he sang the solos in Orff’s Carmina Burana, Beethoven’s Ninth symphony, Haydn’s Creation, Verdi’s Requiem, and Handel’s Messiah. His students have won over four hundred fifty awards in the NATS State, Regional and National Auditions and first and second place winners in Schubert Club Bruce Carlson Scholarship Competition. Former students of his sing in major opera houses in Europe and the United States and on Broadway.