Dr. Will Nichols

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Faculty Profile: Dr. Will Nichols

Dr. Nichols conducts the Alma College Choir, the College Chorale and the Women's Glee Club. Under his leadership the Alma Choirs have become one of the nation's highly regarded collegiate choral programs.

He is a professional singer with an active career as a soloist in classical and popular styles. A bass-baritone, Will has sung with many of Michigan's major Symphony Orchestras (Grand Rapids, Midland, Saginaw, Interlochen) and Oratorio Societies (Michigan Bach Collegium, Central Michigan University, Calvin College, Kalamazoo College, Michigan Tech University). He shares in a Grammy Award won by the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus for the recording of the Penderecki Credo.

Nichols is a past president of the Michigan Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. He and his wife, Pamela, are the parents of Jennifer, Christian, Wilson, and Elizabeth.

The memory and spiritual ideals of the late Bishop Thomas Makarios remain alive in a figurative sculpture that was dedicated in May 2009 near the center of campus. The Bishop, professor of religious studies at Alma for 25 years, was founder of the American Diocese of the Malankara Orthodox Church of India and the first Metropolitan Bishop of Canada, United Kingdom and Europe, and South Africa....

Dr. Raymond Riley
Departments: Music

Dr. Raymond Riley, professor of music at Alma College since 1988, has enjoyed a long and multi-faceted musical career.

Appearing in numerous venues as a recitalist, lecturer, clinician and soloist throughout the Midwest, he believes his piano performance background has been invaluable in supporting his efforts to combine art and science and to foster creativity with technology.