Robert Cody has served as an assistant professor of music at Concordia University, Nebraska since 2023. He conducts instrumental ensembles, teaches courses in music education and conducting and helps mentor the next generation of Lutheran music educators.
A native of Alamosa, Colorado, Cody attended Concordia University, Nebraska for undergraduate studies, with a major in K–12 music education. He has served as the Director of Music at Living Word Lutheran High School (LWLHS) in Jackson, Wisconsin, and music teacher and worship arts director at St. Lorenz Lutheran Church and School in Frankenmuth, Michigan. In 2016 he was named Secondary Educator of the Year by the Wisconsin District of the LCMS.
Cody received his master’s degree from Colorado State University in 2020, where he studied music education with an emphasis in conducting. He is currently pursuing a DMA in Conducting at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His instrumental conducting experience includes concert band, jazz band, drumline and pit orchestra at LWLHS as well conducting the Hartford City Band in Hartford, Wisconsin, the Lakeshore Symphonic Band in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, and the Seward Community Band.
As a clinician, Robert works with high school instrumentalists across the nation in addition to conducting honor bands including the GNAC and Centennial Conference Bands, the Nebraska Class D All-state Honor Band, the Houston Area Lutheran High Schools Honor band and more.
Cody and his wife Katelyn (Sievert) Cody ’13 have three children, Eleanor, Liam and Eliza. When not studying scores or conducting, he enjoys the outdoors, being a father and studying theology.
“The opportunity to combine the Gospel with music and lead other young people to do the same is an incredible blessing to me. I am very thankful for Concordia for the skills and faith it increased in my life, and I am humbled to be on faculty now over a decade later. ”
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Robert Cody's Academic Programs
Undergraduate
Music
Concordia University, Nebraska’s music program exists to prepare students to glorify God through the study, performance and teaching of music in the church and the world.
Music Education
A degree in music education from Concordia University, Nebraska prepares you to teach vocal and instrumental music to students K-12 in Lutheran, Christian, private or public schools.