William Nield Christensen, Tenor

William Nield Christensen joined the vocal faculty of the Wanda L. Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University, where he is an Assistant Professor of Voice.

He has taught at Westmont College, in Santa Barbara California, at the University of California at Santa Barbara, the Santa Barbara Summer Session’s Young Artists Vocal Institute, Cate Preparatory School, and Indiana University.

While at Indiana University, Mr. Christensen represented the University’s School of Music in an exchange program with the Hochschule für Musik Stuttgart, Germany. He was subsequently invited to join the Stuttgart Opera Studio then under the direction of Herr Klaus Nagora. This led to engagements with the Wüttenbergishe Philharmonie Reutlingen, and the Chor-und Konzertverin Internationales Opernstudio Merran.

He has been a featured soloist with the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, Santa Barbara Choral Society, Grand Opera Santa Barbara, Opera Santa Barbara, Adriatic Music Festival, and the Arts and Letters Cafe Opera Series.

He is a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of California at Santa Barbara. In 2005, he partnered with the Santa Barbara County Board of Education and Children’s Creative Project to form a new music arts program teaching core arts curriculum to at risk and under-performing elementary school students.

Professor Christensen lives in Edmond, Oklahoma with his wife and son.