Division: Expanded Education

Department: Faculty, Piano

Instrument: Piano

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.