ACDA Member Receives Fissinger Prize

Indiana State University Director of the School of Music and ICDA member Nancy Cobb Lippens is the 2011 recipient of the Edwin Fissinger Choral Composition Prize.

North Dakota State University Music honors the legacy of its long-time choral conductor, Edwin Fissinger, through this annual choral composition competition. Cobb Lippens, who publishes her music under the pen name Nancy Hill Cobb, composed the chosen piece, “When Music Sounds.”

The work will be premiered by the North Dakota State Concert Choir at 2 p.m. Oct. 2 in the Festival Concert Hall on the NDSU campus in Fargo. Cobb Lippens hopes the award means the piece will have multiple performances in the future.

This marks the second straight year Cobb Lippens has had one of her compositions premiered by another Midwestern university’s music department. In 2010, a chamber ensemble from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point came to Indiana State for the first public performance of “Suite for Reeds.”