Upon Kathryn Lehmann’s departure from PLU in 2006, Nance was named Director of Choral Activities and conductor of the Choir of the West.
That tour featured performances at the Harmonie Festival in Lindenholzhausen, Germany, a world competition that takes place once every six years.
Dr. Nance also serves as director of music at St. Mary's Episcopal Church of Lakewood, Washington, and is active as a clinician and adjudicator.
The remaining movements of the mass were composed at the request of Dr. Sparks for a recording the choir was undertaking in 2000, to showcase the new organ that had been installed in the university’s famed Lagerquist Concert Hall.
[6] Mass for a New Millennium was composed during the 1999-2000 academic year and was premiered by the Pacific Lutheran University Choir of the West, conducted by Richard Sparks on May 30, 2000.
[7] In 2002, Nance conducted the PLU Choral Union tour of Europe and at the World Harp Congress in Geneva, Switzerland, where his Mass for the New Millennium was a featured work.
In November 2011, two Washington Lutheran churches presented the Cora Voce-Mass for a New Millennium program featuring Nance's Mass.
The Senior Choir of Fairlawn Avenue United Church in Toronto, Canada presented Mass for a New Millennium on April 28, 2013, under the direction Eleanor Daley.