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Nikki Birdsong, Piano

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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.

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Performances by Nikki Birdsong

Composer Title Date Action
P. Kellach Waddle Pain, Beethoven, And The Rain : Evocation-Prelude for Piano 12/11/2016 Play
P. Kellach Waddle Dust Covered Bible on Walnut Table: Lied for flute and piano 11/08/2013 Play
Samuel Coleridge Taylor Valse-Suite, Op. 71, nos. 1, 2, 6 11/08/2013 Play Add to playlist
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Fantasy and Fugue in C Major, K. 394 11/08/2013 Play Add to playlist
Undine Smith Moore Before I'd Be a Slave 11/08/2013 Play Add to playlist
Julia Perry Prelude for Piano 11/08/2013 Play Add to playlist
Philip Koplow Sonata in Memoriam -- Martin Luther King Jr. 11/08/2013 Play Add to playlist
Claude Bolling Concerto for Classic Guitar and Jazz Piano, part 4: Finale 11/08/2013 Play
Claude Bolling Concerto for Classic Guitar and Jazz Piano, part 3: Africaine 11/08/2013 Play
Claude Bolling Concerto for Classic Guitar and Jazz Piano, part 2: Mexicaine 11/08/2013 Play
Claude Bolling Concerto for Classic Guitar and Jazz Piano, part 1: Hispanic Dance 11/08/2013 Play
Maurice Ravel Pièce en Forme de Habanera 11/08/2013 Play Add to playlist

Nikki Birdsong Concerts

PKWproductions Presents The Piano...According to PKW, Vol. 2
06/28/2015 07:30, Blackerby Violin Shop (recital hall)
"You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"
02/05/2015 07:00, Ridgeview Middle School
Ensemble Cameranze presents From Hell to High Estate
10/18/2014 07:30, St. Matthew's Episcopal Church
Ensemble Cameranze presents The Vow
08/09/2014 07:30, First English Lutheran Church
Ensemble Cameranze presents A Celebration of Brahms
05/31/2014 07:30, University Presbyterian Church
Ensemble Cameranze presents A Celebration of Brahms
05/24/2014 07:30, University Christian Church
PKWproductions presents Bass Around the World
10/20/2013 07:00, Blackerby Violin Shop Recital Hall
PKWproductions presents The Voice According to PKW
10/06/2013 15:00, Blackerby Violin Shop Recital Hall
PKWproductions presents The Flute According to PKW
02/27/2011 15:00, Ascension Lutheran Church
Audio Inversions presents The Season Finale: Meditations and Homage
05/22/2009 20:00, Debra and Kevin Rollins Studio Theater at the Long Center for the Performing Arts
HAAM (Health Alliance for Austin Musicians) Benefit Concert
05/03/2009 00:00, Congregation Agudas Achim
Viola by Choice: Listening to People of Note
12/14/2008 18:00, Episcopal Church of the Resurrection
Viola by Choice: Around the Viola in 80 Minutes
05/02/2008 20:00, Christ Chapel--Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest