Norm grew up on a farm in northwest Iowa. For the first seven years of his education, he attended a one-room schoolhouse near the farm. When the consolidation of country schools happened, he entered the eighth grade in the town school in Sioux Center, Iowa. He became deeply involved in music and sang in Four Of A Kind, a male quartet. Norm attended Northwestern and Augustana Colleges for his bachelor’s degree then taught music and German at Madison High School in Madison, Minnesota. Norm was drafted into the U.S. Army and sent to Vietnam, returning stateside to Ft. Hood, Texas, where he led the 2nd Armored Division Chorus and was a member of the army band. Graduate school and Master’s Degree from University of Minnesota. He married Cathy Schey. They spent one year in Europe and returned to teach music in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Norm founded Schola Cantorum and began studies for Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting (DMA) at the University of Illinois and completed all course and his dissertation. He taught at Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota, where he Founded Prairie Arts Chorale. Norm moved to Colorado and began a 40 year career in business and founded the SINGERS MASTER CHORALE. He and Cathy have two children and four grandchildren.