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About

Nancy Hill Cobb

Nancy Hill Cobb is an American composer who has spent a large part of her career as a music faculty member and administrator in American universities. Currently Professor of Music at the University of Northern Iowa, Cobb spent a varying number of years as a conductor and composer at Mercer University, Oklahoma Baptist University, Dallas Baptist University, Florida Gulf Coast University and Indiana State University. She holds the D.M.A. in composition from the University of Oklahoma, the M.M. in composition from Michigan State University and the B.M. in theory and composition from Oklahoma Baptist University. Her principal teachers were Claude Bass, H. Owen Reed, Carlisle Floyd and Michael Hennagin.

Cobb was given a Special Distinction Award for her 1998 entry into the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers’ Rudolph Nissim Composition Contest for her choral/orchestral work Threnody. She has also been an ASCAP Standard Award winner since 1996.

Cobb’s works are performed nationally and internationally with recent performances held in Denmark, Japan, Germany, and New Zealand.

News & Announcements

Shades and Illumination

Posted February 2, 2023

Shades and Illumination for orchestra, commissioned by Orchestra Iowa and conducted by Music Director Timothy Hankewish will premiere in the Paramount Theater, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on May 20, 2023.

The Suffragist Premiere

Posted February 2, 2023

The Suffragist, with a cast headlined by Nancy Opel, Cathryn Wake and MaKayla McDonald, premiered at the Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center July 16-18, 2021.

Threnody - Listen to the Recording

Posted May 18, 2019

Newly added to the website is the University of Northern Iowa Combined Chorus and Orchestra, John Wiles Conductor, recording of Threnody from April 13, 2018.

"I Dream a World" premiered by Metropolitan Chorale

Posted May 4, 2019

Recently Added Works

And Death Shall Have No Dominion

Duration: 4:00

Year of Creation/Publication: 2017

Christ the Lord is Risen Today

Duration: 4:18

Year of Creation/Publication: 2018

Titania's Lullaby

Duration: 2:50

Year of Creation/Publication: 2010

Recent Performances

Threnody

Friday, September 22, 2017

Performers: UNI Concert Chorale, University Singers and Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: John Wiles

Laudate Dominum

Saturday, May 28, 2016

Performers: Max Noah Singers and Bob Jones University Singers

Conductor: Dr. Jennifer Flory & Dr. Eliezer Yanson

Gloria

Saturday, May 7, 2016

Performers: Pleasant Valley: Treble Clef Chorus

Conductor: Meg Byrne