Nina Gilbert’s musical background ranges from Kenya, East Africa, where she translated Schubert's Mass in G into Swahili while serving as a Peace Corps volunteer (1978-80); to New York, where she served as associate conductor of the New York Choral Society, working in Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center (1995-96).
Recent guest appearances include the Young Men’s Honor Chorus for the Young People’s Chorus of New York City and the Bucks County Music Educators Association district high school chorus, both in 2006; the Colorado Men’s All-State Honor Chorus in 1998; touring Australia in 1999 with performances and workshops in Melbourne (Monash University) and Brisbane; and headlining the 1999 Minnesota state chapter convention of the American Choral Directors Association, conducting an honor choir and delivering the keynote address (e-mail me if you’d really like a copy of “Chinese Spies, Raw Termites, Miracle Whip and Multicultural Choral Music”).
She has taught at Lafayette, Hamilton, Ferrum, and Wabash colleges and the University of California-Irvine School of the Arts, plus summer sessions at the Hartt School (University of Hartford, Connecticut) and Westminster Choir College (Rider University, New Jersey).
She has about twenty-five choral arrangements and editions in print, and serves as Associate Editor of the Choral Journal, Associate Editor for Treble Clef Music Press, and Coordinator of Curriculum and Communications for the Amati Music Festival. Her newest publishing project is a yet-to-be-named online journal for the National Collegiate Choral Orgnization, for which she is Founding Editor.
She offers commentaries on choral topics on National Public Radio’s Performance Today. For July 4, 2006, she appeared on WHYY’s Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane and Radio America’s G. Gordon Liddy Show, as an expert on the Star-Spangled Banner.
Updated July 4, 2006.