Eric Nelson

Eric Nelson is an American choral conductor, clinician and composer.

Education Nelson received his training in voice and choral conducting at Houghton College, Westminster Choir College (master of music) and Indiana University School of Music (doctor of music, 1990).

Career Eric Nelson is the director of choral studies at Emory University, where he teaches graduate choral conducting and choral literature. He conducts Emory's 40-voice Concert Choir and its 180-voice University Chorus. In 2004, he received the "Crystal Apple" award for excellence in teaching at the university. He is also the artistic director of the Atlanta Master Chorale, a 60-voice adult chamber choir specialising in a Capella repertoire.

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Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heap'd for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on. "It is Well With My Soul": (SATB, piano accompaniment, released: March 2, 2005)