At Caltech, Neenan taught a full complement of music courses including a year-long survey of music history, a year-long music theory sequence and a variety of special topics, including music appreciation, jazz history, “The Orchestra: Its History and Conductors,” history of opera, major figures in music, choral-orchestral literature, chamber music, and others. He was honored by the Associated Students of California Institute of Technology with an ASCIT Outstanding Teaching Award.

Over the course of more than 200 concerts with The Chamber Orchestra at St. Matthew’s, he commissioned and/or premiered more than 25 works, including those by Christopher Tin, Richard Danielpour, Ethan Helm, David Conte, Dante De Silva, Miklós Rózsa, Maria Newman, Mary Lou Newmark, David Newman, Thomas Pasatieri, Tarik O’Regan, John O’Reilly, Roger Bourland, Dwayne Milburn, Gerald Near, Paul Chihara, and Ross Wright.

He has been a featured speaker on the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Upbeat Live pre-concert talks and Organ Recital Series for over 25 years.

He has been a featured speaker on the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Upbeat Live pre-concert talks, including tthose preceding the Organ Recital series, for over 25 years.

Neenan holds degrees from California State University, Northridge, and from UCLA, where he was honored with an Outstanding Academic Achievement Award and was a prizewinner in the Atwater-Kent Performance Competition. He includes among his teachers David Britton, Thomas Harmon, Delores Stevens, Jean Langlais, and Ernst-Ulrich von Kameke. As a recital organist he has performed in the United States as well as in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Japan, and Switzerland.

He enjoys traveling with his wife, Robin, playing golf, scuba diving, and cooking.