MR. NICHOLAS SEIFERT, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF BANDS
Mr. Seifert has been newly hired as the Assistant Director of the Immaculata Band Program, including the academic classes Concert Band, Symphonic Band, and Honors Wind Ensemble; as well as the Immaculata Marching Band. Mr. Seifert will also serve as director of the Jazz Band, teach instrumental lessons, and teach electives in Music Technology and Music and Film.
Mr. Seifert graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Notre Dame majoring in music performance and biological sciences. At Notre Dame, he studied saxophone with Mr. Wade Armentrout and conducting with Mr. Dan Stowe. He was involved throughout the Band of the Fighting Irish, performing with the Marching Band, Symphonic Winds, Jazz Band, New Orleans Brass Band, Saxophone Ensemble, Sorin’s Band, Basketball and Hockey Pep Bands, and on the annual Domestic Concert Band Tour. For his service to the band, he was awarded the Notre Dame Outstanding Band Member Award in 2020. He also was very active in Notre Dame’s music ministry, serving as Assistant Director of the Notre Dame Handbell Choir, and directing Unchained Melodies Christian a Capella.
Mr. Seifert previously graduated from Bridgewater-Raritan High School and is excited to return home as an educator to the central NJ music community. Mr. Seifert is also the Assistant Director of Somerset Hills Harmony, an area mixed a capella and barbershop chorus, and a choir member and instrumental soloist at Pluckemin Presbyterian Church.