Richard Nance

Dr. Richard Nance is an American musician. He is currently associate professor of music and conductor of The Choir of the West at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington USA.

Education

Nance holds bachelors and masters degrees from West Texas A&M (then West Texas State University) and the DMA degree from Arizona State University. Dr. Nance has studied conducting with Hugh Sanders, Douglas McEwen and David Stocker, and studied composition with Joseph Nelson and Randall Shinn.cite book | year=2000 | title=Set Me As A Seal | pages="About the Composer" | publisher=Walton Music | language=English | id=]

Career

Prior to coming to Washington, he taught for seven years at Amarillo College in Amarillo, Texas.cite web | title=Richard Nance | url=http://www.waltonmusic.com/CompBios/rnbio.php | accessdate = 2006-12-15] Nance joined the faculty of Pacific Lutheran University originally as associate director of choral activities in 1992, where he directed the University Chorale, University Singers and Choral Union and taught music education courses and private composition. In January 2007, he was appointed director of choral activities and conductor of The Choir of the West at PLU.

He is an active member of the American Choral Directors Association, presently serving as state president for Washington and as the Choral Review Editor for the Choral Journal. Three choirs under his direction have appeared at ACDA reigonal conventions. Dr. Nance also serves as director of music at St. Mary's Episcopal Church of Lakewood, Washington, and is active as a clinician and adjudicator.

In 2002, Nance conducted the PLU Choral Union tour of Europe and at the World Harp Congress in Geneva, Switzerland, where his "Mass for the New Millennium" was a featured work.cite web | title=Richard Nance | url=http://www.plu.edu/~choir/choral-activities/richard-nance.html | accessdate = 2006-12-23]

Works

Dr. Nance has written a number of compositions for the choirs of Pacific Lutheran University, Arizona State University, high school choirs and church choirs. His works are published by Walton Music and Hinshaw Music, and are performed widely throughout the United States.

et Me As A Seal

"Set Me As A Seal" was Nance's second publication with Walton Music. It was composed for the wedding of Richard Sparks and Kathryn Wold, July 6, 1996. It is set for an SATB (also available in SSAAcite web | title=Nance's works
url=http://www.waltonmusic.com/cgi-bin/Database_search/db_search.cgi | accessdate = 2006-12-21] ) chorus with piano (or organ) and French Horn. The text, taken from Song of Solomon, is as follows:

"Set me as a seal upon your heart, for love is a strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it"."

Other

Nance was selected by the American Choral Directors Association to write the Raymond W. Brock memorial composition for 2002 (Psalm 36, published by Walton Music) and was also commissioned by the Washington Music Educators Association to compose a piece for the 2002 All-State Choir.

References

External links

* [http://www.plu.edu/~nancelr/ Richard Nance, Conductor and Composer]