Faculty List

Dr. Will Nichols

Dr. Will Nichols

Secrest Professor of Music and Director of Choirs
Joined Alma College Faculty in 1983
EDDY 111
(989) 463-7221
Office Hours: MWF: 11 - 12, T/TH 4-5
Homepage: http://www.alma.edu/choirs

Dr. Nichols is the conductor of the three Alma College Choirs. The Glee Club, College Chorale and the Alma Choir have a combined membership of more than 150 Alma students.

The Choirs perform together each year at Homecoming (October), the Festival of Carols (December) and the Masterworks Concert with the Alma Symphony Orchestra (April). The Alma Choir travels across the United States each February and overseas every other year. In May 2012 the Alma Choir will spend two weeks in Ireland where there will participate in the Cork International Choral Festival. In 2010 the Choir returned to the highlands of Scotland and an in May 2008 the Choir spent traveled and sang in Italy including a one-week residency in Rome with the Coro Polifonico Roma Tre.

Education

  • D.M.A. Michigan State University, 1984
  • M.M., Michigan State University

Research Interests

Musical composition: Dr. Nichols composes original anthems for choruses and new settings of Christmas Carols. He, and collaborator Anthony Patterson, have published their music with Alliance Music and G.I.A.

Selected Creative Works

 

Alma College was born on Oct. 14, 1886. George F. Hunting was appointed the College’s first president and professor of moral and mental science. The College’s founding was made possible by Ammi W. Wright, a lumberman, businessman and civic leader who gave 30 acres of land and more than $300,000 to found and sustain the institution in its early years.

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Graduate Profile

Susan Kattula

Susan Kattula
Graduation: 2003
Major: Psychology and Exercise and Health Science

Helping children rehabilitate from illness is a career for the truly compassionate. With her enthusiasm for helping others, Alma College alumna Susan Kattula fits the bill.

After graduating from Alma in 2003, Kattula, who studied psychology and exercise and health science, attended Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., where she earned a master’s degree in occupational therapy.

She worked for a pediatric clinic in Chicago before moving back to St. Louis to accept a position at a specialty pediatric hospital, where she primarily sees outpatient and day treatment children.

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