About me
Nicholas Gorne has taught music in every grade from Kindergarten to University. He fell in love with music at age eight when he began taking piano lessons and singing in choir at school. Throughout elementary school, junior high school, and high school, Mr. Gorne was involved in choir, jazz choir, musical theatre, and solo vocal performance in the Mukilteo School District.
Mr. Gorne entered Pacific Lutheran University in 1998 where, over four years, he developed his solo vocal performance skills performing in opera and musical theatre, sang in the Choir of the West, touring throughout the northwest and Europe, sang in a madrigal group on campus, and graduated in 2002 from Pacific Lutheran University with a Bachelor of Arts in Music. While at PLU Mr. Gorne was recruited during his junior year to begin singing with Choral Arts Northwest (CANW) in 2001. As a tenor in CANW, Mr. Gorne has been part of eight recordings and has sung for regional and national American Choral Directors Association Conferences. In December 2015, CANW had a command performance at the White House for the President and First Lady.
Mr. Gorne was the Lead in Code Blue and Eventide, quartets in the Barbershop Harmony Society, performing regionally and at District Contest. As a lead in Northwest
Vocal Project, Voices, Inc., and Northwest Sound he has performed on the Regional, District, and International stages, earning as high as 6th place in the chorus contest. In 2007, he decided to pursue a Masters Degree and teaching certificate from the University of Puget Sound, graduating in 2008 with a Master of Arts in Teaching. He is currently working through the Kodály Levels program at Seattle Pacific University and is an active adjudicator for choral festivals in the region.
Mr. Gorne currently teaches K-5 General Music at Margaret Mead Elementary School and leads a choir of 85 3-5 grade students. He has earned numerous awards and honors. As the choir director and musical director at Snohomish High School, he was honored to receive the award for Best Orchestra in a Musical and an Honorable Mention for
Best Chorus at the 2019 5th Avenue Awards for the performance of The Addams Family. He was a mentor and conductor with the Vivace! Choral Program from 2011-2018 and the Artistic Director of the Bellevue Youth Choirs from 2019-2022, shepherding the organization through the pandemic.
Mr. Gorne performs regularly throughout the Puget Sound Region, is active as a musical theatre director, offers private voice lessons and quartet coaching for the Barbershop Harmony Society.
