Bradley Nelson

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El Cajon, CA 92020

Phone: 619-***-****

Email: abo0qx@r.postjobfree.com

Website: www.GladdeMusic.com

Experience

COMPOSER, PUBLISHER/ENGRAVER/WEB DESIGNER (1995 - Present)

Gladde Music Publications, San Diego, CA

Composer and Arranger

Engraver (Finale software)

Web Designer - created and maintains Gladde Music Publications at, an interactive website which displays score images and streams live recordings and midi files.

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR IN MUSIC COMPOSITION (

1990 - 98)

Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA

Private instruction in composition

Oversight of senior recitals for Theory-Composition majors

VISITING PROFESSOR OF CHURCH MUSIC (1993 - 94)

Bethel West Theological Seminary, San Diego, CA

Course on Music in Church Ministries

VISITING PROFESSOR OF MUSIC THEORY (1988)

Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA

Course in Rudiments of Music and Musicianship

MINISTER OF MUSIC (

1984 - 95)

College Avenue Baptist Church, San Diego, CA

Directed 150-voice choir in a large church. Administered seven vocal choirs, orchestra, and handbell choirs. Presented major choral/orchestral works in seasonal concerts.

VISITING PROFESSOR OF MUSIC THEORY (1982)

Indiana Central University, Indianapolis, IN

Course in music theory

COMPOSER (1979 - 80)

Indiana Artist Fellowship, Indianapolis, IN

Awarded grants for two years from the Indiana Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts

Received commissions from musical organizations throughout Indiana

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MUSIC COMPOSITION AND THEORY

(

1976 - 79)

Butler University, Indianapolis, IN

Taught composition, music theory, orchestration, counterpoint, form and analysis, choral arranging, electronic music, and history of music theory.

Director of Men's Choir

Director of Electronic Music Studio

DIRECTOR OF MUSIC (1976 - 1984)

Castleview Baptist Church, Indianapolis, IN

Directed 70-voice choir in large church. Administered graded-choir programs for choral, instrumental, and handbell ensembles. Presented major choral/orchestral works in seasonal concerts with members of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.

GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS (1974 - 76)

Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY

Fellowship in Conducting, 1976

Fellowship in Music Theory, 1975

Fellowship in Electronic Music, 1974

Education

DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS - COMPOSITION, CONDUCTING (1976)

Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY

MASTER OF MUSIC - COMPOSITION (1975)

Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY

BACHELOR OF MUSIC - COMPOSITION (1972)

University of Redlands, Redlands, CA

Additional Education

POST-DOCTORAL (1993)

University of California, San Diego, CA

Course in Finale music notation software

POST DOCTORAL (1986 - 87)

Westminster Choir College, Princeton, NJ

Attended Robert Shaw Choral Institute for two summers

POST-UNDERGRADUATE (1972 - 73)

San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

Private study in composition with composer David Ward-Steinman

Publishers

Carl Fischer, Inc., NY

Hinshaw Music, Inc., NC

Neil A. Kjos Music Co., CA

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, MN

Concordia Publishing House, MO

Alliance Music Publications, Inc., TX

Santa Barbara Music Publishing, CA

Gladde Music Publications, CA

Lawson-Gould Music Publishers (Warner Bros.), FL

Memberships

American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP)

American Choral Directors Association (ACDA)

Choral Conductors Guild (CCG)

College Music Society (CMS)

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia

References

Dr. Anna Hamre, Director of Choral Activities

California State University, Fresno

2380 E. Keats Ave. M/S MB77

Fresno, CA 93740-8024

Phone: 559-***-****

Email: abo0qx@r.postjobfree.com

Thomas Coker, Minister of Music

South Main Baptist Church

4100 Main Street

Houston, TX 77002-9693

Phone: 713-***-****

Email: abo0qx@r.postjobfree.com

Dr. Jeffrey Gemmell, Director of Choral Activities

Millersville University

P.O. Box 1002

Millersville, PA 17551

Phone: 717-***-****

Email: abo0qx@r.postjobfree.com

Vitae

Bradley Nelson is active as a composer, conductor, and teacher. He has held positions as a professor and church musician in New York, Indiana, and California. His teaching posts have included Butler University, Point Loma Nazarene University, Indiana Central University, and Grossmont College. While pursuing graduate studies, he held teaching fellowships at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Rochester.

Currently residing in San Diego, he most recently led a large church music program in San Diego, presenting concerts with choir and orchestra at his church and at Copley Symphony Hall. His music has been performed in Westminster Abbey, St. Peter's Basilica, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Chicago Symphony Hall, and San Diego's Copley Symphony Hall. In 1990, his choir presented concerts throughout Eastern Europe shortly after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of Communism. In addition to composing and guest conducting, he teaches composition. He is a skilled engraver and maintains a website for his online publishing company.

After studying composition at the University of Redlands (CA), Nelson received his Master and Doctoral degrees in composition and conducting from the Eastman School of Music (NY). His works for choir, band, orchestra, and chamber ensembles have been performed throughout the United States, Europe, England, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Korea, and Japan. He has received numerous commissions and awards for his compositions. Nelson studied composition with Samuel Adler, Joseph Schwantner, and Warren Benson at Eastman, as well as David Ward-Steinman and Wayne Bohrnstedt in California. He studied conducting with Robert Shaw, Gustav Meier, Robert DeCormier, and Donald Hunsberger

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