Nyline, Frederick
- Title
- Professor of Music
- Office:
- Jenson-Noble 168
- Phone:
- +1.563.387.1202
- Email:
- nylinefr@luther.edu
- Degree:
- M.A., University of Minnesota
- Interests:
- Concert Band, Varsity Band, Wind and Percussion Ensemble, conducting
Frederick Nyline, professor of music at Luther College, conducts the Luther College Concert Band, Varsity Band, and the Wind and Percussion Ensemble. He also teaches advanced instrumental conducting. Before joining the Luther faculty in 1973, Nyline served on the faculty of the University of Minnesota as associate director of bands and director of the University Men’s Chorus. He has been a guest faculty member at the University of Illinois and director of bands in the Austin, Minn., school system. Most recently he has served as guest conductor for the Musashino Academia Musicae Wind Ensemble in Tokyo, Japan, five times for three months at a time during the past fourteen years.
Nyline has served as festival director, guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Pacific Rim, including such locations as Alaska, Hawaii, Japan, Okinawa, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines. Under Nyline’s direction, the Concert Band has performed at numerous state and national music conventions, has participated in yearly Midwest tours, two European tours, two extended tours of the West Coast and Hawaii and three tours of Japan and China. The Band will once again tour Japan in May 2010.