BM, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (one year at Manchester University, U.K.), Piano Performance
MM, Arizona State University, Piano Accompanying
DMA, University of Arizona, Piano Performance
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. 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.
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 School. In addition, Deborah served on the faculty of the International Master Classes in Belgium with Madame Diane Anderson and the Grumo International Music Festival. This summer Deborah is a featured artist and instructor at the Altschuler Music Institute (ASMI) in Rimini, Italy. Dr. Nemko is a recipient of the prestigious Bridgewater State University Presidential Fellowship and a Marion and Jasper Whiting Fellowship. Dr. Nemko is the faculty mentor of the International Alliance for Women in Music Bridgewater State Collegiate Chapter. Deborah Nemko earned her doctoral degree from the University of Arizona under the tutelage of noted concert pianist and former CMS President, Dr. Nohema Fernandez.
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Music of the Holocaust
Women and Music
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