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Joseph Nadeau, D.M.A.
Assistant Professor of Music
Director of Choral Music
Education
DMA - University of Kansas
MA - University of Missouri, Kansas City Conservatory of Music
BM - University of Maine
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For the past 19 years, Dr. Joseph P. Nadeau has been a music educator in Maine, Colorado, and Kansas, working with students from Pre-Kindergarten through the college level. He has a passion for choral music and believes that singing is a life-long, vital part of the human experience.
Nadeau received a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from the University of Maine, and a Master of Arts degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Missouri, Kansas City Conservatory of Music, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. As a conductor, he has studied with Dennis Cox, Eph Ehly, Paul Tucker, and Dale Warland and serves as clinician and guest conductor for regional, state, and national choirs.
In addition to his work at Ottawa University, Nadeau is currently in his fifteenth year as artistic director of the Heartland Men’s Chorus in Kansas City. Since his arrival in 1998, the HMC’s membership has grown to more than 175 active members and has performed in various cities including a 2002 European tour of London, Paris, and Hamburg. The chorus performs regularly at many national and international festivals, conferences and events including a national Chorus America conference in 2003 and the American Choral Director’s Association National Conference in Oklahoma City in 2009.
Nadeau is a member of the American Choral Director’s Association, the Music Educator’s National Conference, Chorus America, GALA Choruses, and Intercollegiate Men's Choruses.
This summer, Nadeau conducted Heartland Men's Chorus and Kansas City Women's Chorus at the International GALA Choruses Festival in Denver and was recently a featured speaker at the Alabama Choral Director's Summer Conference.