Nathaniel Pierce
Nathaniel Pierce (born July 18, 1990 in Winston-Salem , North Carolina , USA ) is an American cellist and artistic director of the Anchorage Chamber Music Festival .
Life
Nathaniel Pierce was born to tenor John Pierce and soprano Alice Pierce . In 1992 the family moved to Germany , where the parents accepted an engagement at the Cottbus State Theater . Pierce attended school in Glinzig, a town in the Kolkwitz community , was already involved in the children's choir and began studying cello with Günter Großmann at the Cottbus Conservatory at the age of six . He completed his studies with Marianne Jakobovitz and Ulrike Schaeffer at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz .
In 2004 the Pierce family returned to the USA, where Pierce resumed his studies at the University of Michigan with Richard Aaron , with whom he had attended high school, and graduated with a Bachelor of Music . At the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University , he continued studying and has graduated Master of Music reached.
Pierce is an active chamber musician who gives around fifty solo and chamber music performances a year.
Prizes and awards
- 2008: Winner of the Louis Potter cello competition
Web links
- Audio sample: Rachmaninoff's 3rd Cello Sonata accessed on February 15, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nathaniel Pierce on the website of the Anchorage Chamber Music Festival ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 15, 2014
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| SURNAME | Pierce, Nathaniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American musician (cellist) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1990 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Winston-Salem North Carolina |