Nathan Lansing started at the University of Mary in August of 2005. Nathan's professional experience includes high school choral director (1995-1998); summer Jazz Camp faculty (1996-2000 & 2003-present); arranger, composer, lyricist, adjudicator and clinician; teaching History of Jazz at Central Washington University (2002-2003); public school substitute teacher (2003-2004); and director of Jazz Choir, music theory tutor, and music librarian at Edmonds Community College (2004-2005).

Community and Professional Interests

• Judge and clinician at local and regional music competitions
• Attending local community and school concerts

Statement on Student Leadership
Nathan's opinion that such a simple and worthwhile concept needs no elaborate explanation – within music, it is leading by example and possessing the same love of learning and the subject that you hope to engender in your students.

Education

    Associate of Arts and Sciences,
        Edmonds Community College, Lynwood, WA
    Bachelor of Music in Education and Traffic Safety
        Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
    Master of Music in Choral Conducting,
       Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
  
Professional Memberships

• Music Educators National Conference (MENC)
• American Choral Directors Association (ACDA)
• International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE)

Performances

• Mr. Bluff in Mozart’s The Impresario at CWU
• El Gallo in the Historic Everett Theater’s The Fantasticks
• Calvin/Chorus in Woodinville Repertory’s Guys and Dolls
• Voice of Audrey Two in Edmonds CC’s Little Shop of Horrors
• Soundsation Vocal Jazz 
• Central Washington University Vocal Jazz One
• Chamber Choir 
• Seattle Jazz Singers

Undergraduate Courses Taught

• Concert Choir
• Chamber Choir
• Vocal Jazz One
• Music Theory I, II & V
• Choral Conducting
• Sight Singing/Ear Training III & IV
• Applied Vocal Jazz Lessons

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