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Bradley Nelson has been 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 has been devoted full-time to
composing and publishing for a number of years. Prior to
that, he led a large church music program in San Diego, presenting
concerts with choir and orchestra at his church and at Copley
Symphony Hall. He has conducted choral masterworks such as
Brahms' "Requiem", Mendelssohn's "Symphony No. 2" (Lobgesang),
Handel's "Messiah", and Rutter's "Gloria" and
"Requiem" as well as his own Christmas oratorio "The
Feast of Lights". His music has been
performed internationally in Westminster Abbey,
and throughout Italy in St.
Peter's Basilica, the Dom Cathedral
in Florence, and St. Mark's Cathedral
in Venice. In the United States his music has been
performed at the Kennedy Center in
Washington D.C., Chicago Symphony Hall, and
San Diego's Copley Symphony Hall. In 1990, his choir
performed throughout Eastern Europe shortly after the collapse of the
Berlin Wall and the disintegration of Communism. Concerts
were presented in Leipzig, Budapest, Prague, Bratislava, Zagreb, and
Vienna. In addition to composing and guest conducting, he
teaches composition. |
After studying composition at the University of Redlands (CA),
Nelson received his Masters 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 and in Canada, England,
Europe, the Baltic States, Russia, South Africa, New Zealand, Korea,
Japan, and Brazil. 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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