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Mississippi College’s director of choral activities, Mark Nabholz is the recipient of a significant professional honor. The Clinton resident is serving as the new chief editor of publications for the National Collegiate Choral Organization.
In this role, Dr. Nabholz is the editor of the group’s peer review journal, “The Choral Scholar.” He will also oversee the group’s Choral Series that publishes new choral scores and historical editions each year. The Choral Series works in cooperation with the ECS Publishing Group in St. Louis, Missouri.
In addition, the talented Mississippian will serve on the NCCO Executive Board as an ex-officio member. Established in 2005, the organization includes hundreds of college and university choral conductors nationwide. Members of the professional group will gather for their biennial conference in 2021 at the University of Arizona.
Becoming the new chief editor is the latest honor for the award-winning music leader. His appointment became effective January 1.
Nabholz joined the Mississippi College faculty in August 2015. Mark served as the leader of choral activities with Presbyterian-affiliated Erskine College since 2011 before joining the MC Music Department. In 2014, he led the Erskine College Choraleers to Italy for a series of splendid concerts in Rome, Florence and Venice. He worked as the director of music at First Presbyterian Church of Augusta, Georgia from 1993 through 2004.
A Minnesota native, Nabholz teaches studio voice, undergraduate and graduate conducting courses and conducts two choirs at Baptist-affiliated Mississippi College.
His work as a conductor was seen by statewide TV audiences when Mississippi Public Broadcasting stations aired the MC Singers performing at the Festival of Lights concert. The program in December marked the fourth year in a row that MPB aired the Christmas event also reaching TV audiences in Alabama, Louisiana, and Tennessee. He also serves as conductor of the Choctaw Chorus on the Clinton campus.
MC’s music professor is active with the American Choral Directors Association. Nabholz also serves as the artistic director of the Mississippi Chorus. Based in metro Jackson, the Mississippi Chorus has collaborated with other fine musical organizations with a series of concerts in the region since 1989.
Nabholz earned his bachelor’s in music at Houghton College in New York in 1984. He received his master’s at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester in New York in 1987 in choral conducting. He received his doctoral of musical arts in choral conducting at the University of South Carolina in 2011.
When Mark joined the MC faculty with sterling credentials, his hiring was applauded by Angela Willoughby, chair of the Music Department.
“Dr. Nabholz brings a wealth of experience at the university level as well as a strong background in church service,” Willoughby said. “He is innovative and engaging with the understanding of the role of a Christian college like MC.”
