Deborah Nemko regularly appears in concert throughout the United States and abroad as soloist and collaborative artist. Nemko has performed in prestigious venues including the Carnegie Hall in New York, The Library of Congress, Washington, DC, the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, Shanghai and the Bethanienklooster in Amsterdam. Reviews of her performances describe her “beautiful and incisive playing.” After completing her 2015 Fulbright Fellowship to the Netherlands for her project, “Suppressed and Forgotten Dutch Composers of World War II,” she developed innovative recitals and workshops on Dutch Composers of the Holocaust. In Taipei, Taiwan, Nemko was recognized by the Taipei Times with violinist Annegret Klaua as the first classical musicians to perform in residence in the remote Taiwanese village of Alisan. Though established as an interpreter of twentieth and twenty-first century music, pianist Deborah Nemko is equally at home playing the music of Ravel and Glass or Brahms and Beethoven. A frequent recording artist; her recordings of the piano music of Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee and Grazyna Bacewicz are compelling.
Deborah offers clinics, master classes and lecture recitals nationally and internationally on the music of Tania Leon, Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee, Henriette Bosmans and Grazyna Bacewicz. Her students have excelled and performed in Carnegie Hall, Utrecht Conservatory, and throughout Belgium in the International Piano Masterclasses.
In conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania Design Institute-Paris in the Schola Cantorum in Paris Dr. Nemko performed a program entitled “Le Corbusier and Xenakis’s Methods of Composition and Rhythmic Structures, Spanning Between Architecture and Music” with University of Pennsylvania faculty.
A committed educator, Dr. Nemko has served as visiting faculty at Utrecht Conservatory (the Netherlands), Dr. Nemko is Professor of Music at Bridgewater State University and faculty member of New England Conservatory’s Piano Preparatory and Continuing Education Program. In addition, Deborah served on the faculty of the International Master Classes in Belgium with Madame Diane Anderson and the Grumo International Music Festival. Deborah is currently a 2020-21 Bridgewater State University Presidential Fellow and serves as a board member of the International Alliance for Women in Music.