Nadia Sirota
Nadia Sirota performing in 2014
Nadia Sirota (born in New York) is an American viola player.[1][lower-alpha 1]
Sirota is best known for her singular sound and expressive execution, coaxing solo works from the likes of Nico Muhly, Daníel Bjarnason, Judd Greenstein, Marcos Balter and Missy Mazzoli.[lower-alpha 2] Her debut album First Things First was released in 2009 on New Amsterdam Records and cited as a record of the year by The New York Times,[4] and her second album, Baroque, was released in March 2013.[5] In 2012, she recorded Nico Muhly's "Drones & Piano" with pianist Bruce Brubaker; it appears on the Bedroom Community recording Drones.
In addition to her work as a soloist, Sirota is a member of yMusic, ACME (the American Contemporary Music Ensemble) and Alarm Will Sound, and has lent her sound to recording and concert projects by such artists and songwriters as Grizzly Bear, Jónsi and Arcade Fire. Sirota also hosts a radio show on WQXR's New Music radio stream, Q2Music, for which she was awarded the 2010 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award in Radio and Internet Broadcasting.[6] Sirota is the recipient of Southern Methodist University's 2013 Meadows Prize, awarded to pioneering artists and scholars with an emerging international profile. She received her undergraduate and Masters degrees from the Juilliard School, and since 2007 has been on faculty at the Manhattan School of Music in their Contemporary Performance Program. [7]
Discography
As leader
| Year |
Album |
Notes |
| 2013 |
Baroque |
|
| 2009 |
First Things First |
with Judd Greenstein and Clarice Jensen |
As sideman
Notes
- ↑ [2] "The viola is one of those soulful, lost-in-the- middle instalments that occasionally erupt into the foreground — when Nadia Sirota is handling one, for example."
- ↑ [3] "Muhly formed alliances with a number of musicians who have become regular collaborators, including Nadia Sirota, a violist. Sirota says of Muhly, "He is different from a lot of composers his age in that he prefers a kind of old-school way."
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