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Home Purpose Biography MUSIC CATALOGUE Orders Publishers Musings Commissions Mechanical License Choral Links Contact Me Domestic Performances International Performances Video Performances *Add me to your E-mail list for occasional news from Gladde Music Publications	Bradley Nelson  is 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 positions have included Butler University, Indiana Central University, Point Loma Nazarene 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 devoted his 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 Basilica in Venice.  Recently, his music was performed for the first time in the Middle East in Oman. In the United States his music has been performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Chicago Symphony Hall, New York City's Carnegie Hall, and San Diego's Copley Symphony Hall.  In 1990, his choir performed "Christ, the Precious Living Stone" and "A New Kyrie" 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), Brad 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, Scandanavia, the Baltic States, Russia, Oman, South Africa, New Zealand, India, Korea, and Japan.  He has received numerous commissions and awards for his compositions.  Brad 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. ~ Click here for a local San Diego bio ~ Click here for an online or printable Resúme
Conducting a concert.... Premiere of the orchestrated version of "The Feast Of Lights" Backstage with "Mozart" and "Handel".... Performing Mozart's edition of Handel's Messiah in Copley Symphony Hall, San Diego                      With family....(when the kids still obeyed!?)