| P. Kellach Waddle |
Pain, Beethoven, And The Rain : Evocation-Prelude for Piano |
12/11/2016 |
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| P. Kellach Waddle |
Dust Covered Bible on Walnut Table: Lied for flute and piano |
11/08/2013 |
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| Samuel Coleridge Taylor |
Valse-Suite, Op. 71, nos. 1, 2, 6 |
11/08/2013 |
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| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Fantasy and Fugue in C Major, K. 394 |
11/08/2013 |
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| Undine Smith Moore |
Before I'd Be a Slave |
11/08/2013 |
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| Julia Perry |
Prelude for Piano |
11/08/2013 |
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| Philip Koplow |
Sonata in Memoriam -- Martin Luther King Jr. |
11/08/2013 |
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| Claude Bolling |
Concerto for Classic Guitar and Jazz Piano, part 4: Finale |
11/08/2013 |
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| Claude Bolling |
Concerto for Classic Guitar and Jazz Piano, part 3: Africaine |
11/08/2013 |
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| Claude Bolling |
Concerto for Classic Guitar and Jazz Piano, part 2: Mexicaine |
11/08/2013 |
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| Claude Bolling |
Concerto for Classic Guitar and Jazz Piano, part 1: Hispanic Dance |
11/08/2013 |
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| Maurice Ravel |
Pièce en Forme de Habanera |
11/08/2013 |
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Nikki Birdsong, Piano
Biography
Nikki Birdsong is a professional collaborator whose playing has been described as having "a quiet elegance" (Austin-American Statesman). Based in Austin, Texas, her many collaborations include the Austin Chamber Music Center, Audio Inversions, and Austin Lyric Opera, and performances with members of the Austin Symphony and Grammy-nominated choral group Conspirare. Ms. Birdsong has traveled with soloists and choirs to several U.S. states as well as Toronto, Canada and Nassau, Bahamas. Locally, she has performed at the Long Center, One World Theatre, Bates Recital Hall (Butler School of Music) and various smaller venues, including the Alamo Drafthouse Theatre as part of the popular PKW Productions "Music and a Movie" series, and local elementary and middle schools as part of the outreach program Opera Treasure Chest Live. She has been a pianist for the Viola by Choice concert series (with artistic director Aurèlien Petillot) since its 2006-2007 inaugural season and can be heard on the CD Florilegium; she has also been a frequent collaborator with PKW Productions (founder and director P. Kellach Waddle). Recent years have revealed a flair for contemporary music; her premieres have included several works by P. Kellach Waddle (Pulitzer Prize-nominated composer), Donald Grantham (Professor of Composition at the Butler School of Music), and Peter Stopschinski and Graham Reynolds (composer/pianists and co-founders of the Golden Hornet Project). Ms. Birdsong holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Louisiana State University, where she studied with Constance Carroll and Michael Gurt, and a Master of Music degree from The University of Texas at Austin, where she studied with Danielle Martin and was the recipient of a graduate teaching assistantship. Ms Birdsong has been on the faculty of the Orpheus Academy of Music, Huston-Tillotson University and the Regents School of Austin. Her professional affiliations include Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity and the Music Teachers National Association.
Ms. Birdsong is available for solo performances, private lessons, and accompanying/collaboration with instrumentalists, soloists and choirs of all levels of musical study.
www.nikkibirdsong.com
nikki@nikkibirdsong.com