Dr. Nick Strimple
Dr. Nick Strimple, a professor, author, composer and internationally recognized expert on music in the Holocaust, will speak publicly at Gustavus Adolphus College Thursday, Feb. 11.
Strimple will first deliver the homily at the College’s daily chapel service at 10 a.m. in Christ Chapel. Later in the day he will deliver a lecture addressing music as a central part of the culture of the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1944. The lecture will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. in Wallenberg Auditorium, located in the Alfred Nobel Hall of Science. Both speaking appearances are free and open to the public.
Strimple is an Associate Professor of Choral and Sacred Music in the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, and Director of Music at Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church. He is the author of two critically acclaimed books, Choral Music in the Twentieth Century (2002) and Choral Music in the Nineteenth Century (2008).
He has conducted some of the world’s most prominent ensembles including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra and Chorus of the Polish National Opera, the Philharmonia Orchestra (London), the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak Radio Orchestra, and others.
An established composer, Strimple has written concert and liturgical works and has received commissions from the Vienna International Organ Festival, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Diva Complex, Jorge Mester, and others.
He has delivered his music in the Holocaust lecture at distinguished institutions such as Yale University, Oxford University, Wellesley College, and the University of Miami.
Strimple’s appearance at Gustavus is being sponsored by the Saint Peter Choral Society.
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