1. Donald Nally is the current director of Choral studies at Westminster Choir College, and conductor of the professional new-music choir, The Crossing, based in Philadelphia.
14 Facts About Donald Nally
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Donald Nally has been chorus master of Lyric Opera of Chicago, Welsh National Opera, Opera Philadelphia, and the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy.
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Donald Nally has been nominated ten times for the Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance, winning in 2018,2019,2023, and 2025.
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Donald Nally has won numerous awards and is recognized as one of the leading commissioners of new music in the United States.
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Donald Nally was born in Hilltown, Pennsylvania, and educated at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Westminster Choir College, and the University of Illinois.
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Donald Nally has been Artist in Residence at Washington and Lee University and Shorter University, has been on the faculty of the University of Illinois, and has been guest lecturer at Indiana University and the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.
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In 2006, Donald Nally returned to the United States to become the chorus master for the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
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Donald Nally has guest conducted the Swedish Radio Choir, the Latvian State Choir, the Grant Park Symphony Chorus, and the Santa Fe Desert Chorale; he has prepared choirs for the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Pennsylvania Ballet, the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, and Spoleto USA.
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Donald Nally was music director for Lang's The Mile-Long Opera, overseeing a thousand singers on The High Line in Manhattan.
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In September 2012, Donald Nally joined the faculty of the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois as a tenured professor and director of choral organizations.
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Donald Nally was appointed following the retirement of longtime professor Dr Robert A Harris, who held the position for the 35 years previous to Nally's appointment.
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In 2013, Donald Nally rehearsed Howard Hanson's Song of Democracy, which sets texts from various poems of Walt Whitman.
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Donald Nally told the student he would receive a failing grade if he did not perform the work.
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In 2022, Donald Nally became an artist in residence at Westminster Choir College, the school of music of Rider University, in Lawrenceville, NJ.