Nancy Cobb Lippens receives Fissinger Prize

Indiana State University Director of the School of Music 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 text of the piece is about music and how it affects human beings,” Cobb Lippens said. “It has a very accessible harmonic structure, yet is challenging to perform.”