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

 

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Graduate Profile

Dr. Dave Sherwood
Graduation: 1985
Major: Biology and Art

Dave Sherwood was helping his brother pack when he came across an old paper from high school. Written when he was 17, it described what he thought his life would be like in 15 years.

He was shocked to find the paper actually described his current life.

Sherwood works as a doctor in the small mountain community of Ouray, Colo., where he lives with his wife and three children.