Richard Nance

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

Nance holds bachelors and master's degrees from West Texas A&M (then West Texas State University) and the Doctor of Musical Arts 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.

Prior to moving to Washington, he taught for seven years at Amarillo College in Amarillo, Texas. Nance joined the faculty of Pacific Lutheran University originally as associate director of choral activities in 1992. For fifteen years he conducted the University Chorale, University Singers and Choral Union. Under Nance’s direction, all three of these choirs were chosen to sing at ACDA conventions (1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006), and the Choral Union twice toured to Europe. Upon Kathryn Lehmann’s departure from PLU in 2006, Nance was named Director of Choral Activities and conductor of the Choir of the West. He led the choir’s tour to Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary in 2007, and the tour to Germany and France in 2011. That tour featured performances at the Harmonie Festival in Lindenholzhausen, Germany, a world competition that takes place once every six years. Under Nance’s direction the Choir of the West appeared at the 2009 Northwest MENC Conference, and the choir has been selected to appear at the 2012 Northwestern Division Conference of the American Choral Directors Association., 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. Under Nance's direction the Choir of the West has become recognized as one of the best collegiate choirs in the nation. The Choir of the West won First place in the Anton Bruckner choral festival in the summer of 2015, and in the 2015 - 2016 school year the choir will sing the St. Matthews passion with Soprano Angela Meade as well as perform at the NCCO conference with Simon Carrington as a guest director and mentor.

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