Nicholas Contorno

Dr. Contorno served 24 years as the Director of Music Programs, bands and orchestra at Marquette University in Milwaukee (WI). He received a Bachelor and Master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to his 24 years at Marquette University, he spent 22 years working with bands at the high school level. A published composer with a variety of educational music publishers, he was an ASCAP award winning composer and arranger. Dr. Contorno was active as a guest soloist, conductor, adjudicator, and clinician in Wisconsin, as well as Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, New York, Nevada, Tennessee, and China.