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Described by the Classical Voice of North Carolina as showing “guts and passion” and being “emotive and artful”, Nancy Harder has performed across the U.S. and Europe.
Select performances, in both piano and voice, have included collaborative artist recitals in Austria with the American Institute of Musical Studies; soloing with the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra (as the only person in the history of the competition to win the Richard R. Deas Concerto Competition twice); performing the operatic role of “Prince Orlofsky” in Die Fledermaus, and participating in masterclasses with Barbara Bonney and Harold Heiburg.
Nancy holds a Masters of Music in Accompanying from the University of North Carolina Greensboro and has studied at the Conservatoire de Montreux, Switzerland, the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and privately in the Netherlands and Austria.
She was also a recipient of a research fellowship for her work on a critical edition of an original Liszt manuscript at Yale University.
Her primary piano teachers have included James Douglass, Andrew Harley, and Barry Salwen. Her voice teachers have included Clara O’ Brien and Nancy King.
Nancy is currently an active freelance accompanist and teaches both piano and voice to students of all ages. She is also on the faculty at Virginia Tech’s Department of Music.
