Daniel Weeks, tenor, is a 1999 National Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Other awards include First Place in the 1999 National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artists Competition; Second Place in the D'Angelo Vocal Competition; and Second Place in the Opera Guild of Fort Worth's 1999 Marguerite McCammon Vocal Competition. His opera credits include Mozart's Cos" fan tutte, Puccini's Gianni Schicci, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea, and Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors. His oratorio experience includes Handel's Messiah; Britten's Serenade for Tenor, One Horne, and Strings; Mozart's Requiem; Bach's B Minor Mass, St. John's Passion and Christmas Oratorio;  Stravinsky's Les Noces; and Beethoven's Mass in C and Ninth Symphony. In March 1999 he was the soloist in the Tri-State premiere of the once lost Messe Solennelle of Berlioz, with the Northern Kentucky Symphony. In February 2000, Mr. Weeks will be the featured recitalist for the MHF's ON WINGS OF SONG at NYC's Kosciuszko Foundation. In April he will be co-presented by St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, IN and the MHF in recital and education programs.

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