Biography

Lance Mattice grew up in small town Shenandoah, IA. He began with piano lessons at age 8, and later joined band on clarinet at age 10. Through out grade school, he participated in marching, concert and pep bands, as well as concert choir and multiple musicals. He served as Drum Major for two years in the SHS Marching Band. He moved Omaha area and attend Iowa Western Community College and University of Nebraska at Omaha. He continued his career in band and choir at IWCC, where served as Drum Major for one year. At University of Nebraska at Omaha, he unfortunately had to leave choir behind in order to focus on his private clarinet and piano lessons, his many performing ensembles, and his education classes. He graduated in 2018 with a Bachelors Degree in PK-12 Music Education. 

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Lance has had performance opportunities all around the US, and even in Europe. He has performed in high school honor bands that traveled to Chicago, Illinois and Little Rock, Arizona. In college, he performed with the Nebraska Intercollegiate Band. His greatest performance accomplishments were performing with the Honors Performance Series at Carnegie Hall in New York City, and performing multiple times with the World Youth Wind Orchestra Project in Schladming, Austria as part of the MidEurope BlasMusick-Festival.

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Lance has arranged tunes for pep band and brass band, written songs for his rock band, Waiting for Parry, composed music for a DnD group - giving musically appropriate themes to each character - as well as composed the full score for a video game. For examples of his compositions, please go to the "Compositions" tab. 

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Lance has been inspired by the scores of great composers such as John Powell, Pinar Toprak, Bear McCreary, Alexandre Desplat, Randy Newman, Ramin Djawadi, and of course, John Williams. 

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Lance currently works as the Assistant Band Director at Norwest High Magnet School, as well as Beginning Band Director at Ashland Park, Chandler View, Gateway, Indian Hill and Washington Elementary Schools in Omaha, Nebraska.