Nancy Cobb Lippens

Nancy Cobb Lippens, composer and conductor, began her position of Director of the School of Music at Indiana State University on July 13, 2009. Under her composing name of "Nancy Hill Cobb," Cobb Lippens has published compositions with companies such as Hinshaw, Santa Barbara, Alliance, Gentry, Bourne, and Leawood. Two major works published by Cobb are Threnody, for chorus and orchestra (Hinshaw, 2004) and The Seven Last Words, for chorus and chamber orchestra (1988, Leawood).

Prior to her position at ISU, Cobb Lippens was founding director of the Bower School of Music at Florida Gulf Coast University where she grew the department from zero to almost one hundred students in four years. Concurrently she held the position of Artistic Director and Conductor of the Fort Myers Symphonic Mastersingers. Other institutions at which she served were Dallas Baptist University, where she was program head of theory and composition and opera theater director, Oklahoma Baptist University, where she was conductor of the University Chorale and chair of the Theory and Composition Department, and Mercer University. From 1998-2002 she served as founder and conductor of the Sine Nomine Singers in Shawnee, Oklahoma and as the conductor of the Stillwater Chamber Singers in 2004-2005.. She also served as President of the Oklahoma Choral Directors Association and was named Director of Distinction by the organization in 1995.

She holds the Bachelor of Music with Honors in Theory and Composition from Oklahoma Baptist University, the Master of Music in Composition from Michigan State University, and the Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from the University of Oklahoma where she studied with Michael Hennagin. She also completed post-doctoral studies in choral conducting at the Eastman School of Music.

D.M.A. University of Oklahoma
M.M.Michigan State University
B.M. Oklahoma Baptist University.