NH
Nicolas Harding
  • Music Education
  • Class of 2016
  • Yerington, NV

Nicholas Harding participates in Symphonic Band tour

2015 Feb 20

The University Symphonic Band from Concordia University, Nebraska will perform at churches and schools throughout Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas during its annual tour. The band will perform March 5-14 on tour and at St. John Lutheran Church in its hometown of Seward, Nebraska, on March 22.

Symphonic Band members include:

Nicholas Harding, a senior from Yerington, Nev., euphonium

"I think the most meaningful part of the tour experiences for me--and hopefully the students--is the opportunity to make connections," said Assistant Professor of Music Andrew Schultz. "Our daily devotions connect us with God's word. Our daily musical performances connect us with a deeper and broader understanding of ourselves as musicians and the music we are performing. Our daily connections with our host families connect us to people we might have never had the opportunity to meet. All of those connections build us up as we continue to grow as individuals and as a group of people who are using our musical talents to share Christ's love."

Schultz conducts the 49-member ensemble, which is open to all Concordia students by audition each year.

The University Symphonic Band formed in 1906 and is the oldest continuing musical organization at Concordia. The ensemble places emphasis on sacred, multicultural and contemporary literature, as well as traditional concert band repertoire.

The band tours a part of the United States each year and toured internationally to China in the summer of 2007.

Schultz earned his Bachelor of Science in Education from Concordia Nebraska and a Master of Music in wind conducting from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts in music education at Boston University.