Founding Director of Music
Phone: (239)590-7374
E-Mail: ncobb@fgcu.edu
Office: Music Mod. Room 7

Nancy Cobb-Lippens, composer and conductor, is Director  of the Bower School of Music. She also holds the rank of Professor of Music at the university. Under her composing name of "Nancy Hill Cobb," Cobb-Lippens has published numerous compositions with companies such as Hinshaw, Santa Barbara, Alliance, Gentry, Bourne, and Leawood. Her compositions include works for piano, orchestra, band, solo voice, and chorus. Two major works published by Cobb are Threnody, for chorus and orchestra (Hinshaw, 2004). The Seven Last Words, for chorus and chamber orchestra (1988, Leawood).

Cobb-Lippens is also Artistic Director and Conductor of the Fort Myers Symphonic Mastersingers, www.mastersingersfm.com. 

Prior to joining the faculty at FGCU,  Cobb-Lippens was Program Head of Theory and Composition and Opera Theatre Director at Dallas Baptist University. Concurrently she served as Artistic Director of the Stillwater Chamber Singers in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Other institutions at which she served were Oklahoma Baptist University, where she was Conductor of the University Chorale and Chairman of the Theory and Composition Department, and Mercer University.

Cobb-Lippens has conducted numerous honor choruses in the southwest and is in demand as a clinician and adjudicator.    She served as Guest Conductor with the Irving Chorale, Canterbury Choral Society and the Singing Women of Texas. From 1998-2002 she served as Founder and Conductor of the Sine Nomine Singers in Shawnee, Oklahoma. She also served as President of the Oklahoma Choral Directors Association and was named Director of Distinction by the organization in 1995.

Each year Cobb-Lippens serves as a Table Leader for the Advanced Placement Music Theory Reading sponsored by the Educational Testing Service. Also for ETS she served on the national committee which revised the Major Field Test in Music, an assessment instrument used by many colleges and universities throughout the United States. 

She holds the Bachelor of Music with Honors in Theory and Composition from Oklahoma Baptist University, the Master of Music in Composition from Michigan State University, and the Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from the University of Oklahoma where she studied with Michael Hennagin. She also completed post-doctoral studies in choral conducting at the Eastman School of Music.