Nicholas Cords

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Nicholas Cords (* 1974 ) is an American violist .

Cords studied viola at the Juilliard School of Music and played the New York world premiere of John Harbison's Viola Concerto at Avery Fisher Hall . He completed his education at the Curtis Institute of Music in Chicago. His teachers included Karen Tuttle , Harvey Shapiro , Joseph Fuchs and Felix Galimir .

As a chamber musician, he has appeared with ensembles such as the Caramoor Virtuosi , the Richardson Chamber Players , the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra , the Davidsbund Chamber Players and the Metropolitan Museum Artists in Residence , as a soloist a. a. with the Philadelphia Orchestra , the Minnesota Orchestra , the New York String Seminar Orchestra and the Queens Symphony .

Cords is also a permanent member of Yo-Yo Mas Silk Road Ensemble , with whom he has performed in the USA and Europe, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, India, Egypt, Iran, Syria and several Central Asian republics. He had radio and television appearances a. a. on the David Letterman Show , Good Morning America, and on a Chinese state television broadcast of the Great Wall of China. For several years he worked as a presenter and musician on the weekly program On AIR (Artists-in-Radio) on New York's WQXR Radio .

Cords teaches summer courses at the Bennington Chamber Music and Composers Conference and teaches viola at Harvard University . He continued to mentor workshops at Carnegie Hall and teach workshops for the New York City Department of Education . He plays a viola made by the instrument maker Samuel Zygmuntowicz in 2004.

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SURNAME Cords, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American violist
DATE OF BIRTH 1974