Nadia Sirota (born in New York) is an American viola player. Introducing Nadia Sirota!, American Viola Society, December 10th, 2012 Her father is Robert Sirota, a composer and conductor.Q&A With Nadia Sirota The Juilliard School, April 2013. Archived copy accessed 12/6/2017
Life and career
Sirota is best known for her singular sound and expressive execution, coaxing solo works from the likes of Nico Muhly, Daníel Bjarnason, Judd Greenstein, Marcos Balter and Missy Mazzoli. Her debut album First Things First was released in 2009 on New Amsterdam Records and cited as a record of the year by The New York Times, and her second album, Baroque, was released in March 2013. In 2012, she recorded Nico Muhly's "Drones & Piano" with pianist Bruce Brubaker; it appears on the Bedroom Community recording Drones.
In addition to her work as a soloist, Sirota is a member of yMusic, ACME (the American Contemporary Music Ensemble) and Alarm Will Sound, and has lent her sound to recording and concert projects by such artists and songwriters as Grizzly Bear, Dirty Projectors, Jónsi and Arcade Fire. Sirota also hosted a radio show on WQXR's New Music radio stream, Q2Music, for which she was awarded the 2010 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award in Radio and Internet Broadcasting. Sirota is the recipient of Southern Methodist University's 2013 Meadows Prize, awarded to pioneering artists and scholars with an emerging international profile. In 2015, Sirota won a Peabody Award for her work on WQXR's Q2 Music podcast, Meet the Composer, which she co-created and hosted. She received her undergraduate and master's degrees from the Juilliard School, and since 2007 has been on faculty at the Manhattan School of Music in their Contemporary Performance Program.
Since 2018, Sirota has served as the New York Philharmonic’s Creative Partner.
Discography
As leader Year Album Notes 2017 Tessellatum a Bedroom Community release 2013 Baroque a Bedroom Community release 2009 First Things Firstwith Judd Greenstein and Clarice Jensen
As sideman Year Album Artists 2018 Never Let Me Down 2018 David Bowie 2018 Brighter Wounds Son Lux 2017 Planetarium Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly & James McAlister 2017 Thanks for Listening Chris Thile 2015 So There Ben Folds and yMusic 2015 Divers Joanna Newsom 2014 In the Hollows Dead Heart Bloom 2013 Secrets of Antikythera Andrew McPherson 2013 Trouble Will Find Me The National 2013 Lanterns Son Lux 2013 Traveling Alone Tift Merritt 2012 Swing Lo Magellan Dirty Projectors 2012 My Antagonist Jónsi 2012 Drones Nico Muhly 2012 Sugaring Season Beth Orton 2012 Gossamer Passion Pit 2012 Architecture of Loss Valgeir Sigurðsson 2011 Lar Fleur de L'Aube Arcade Fire 2011 Songs of Ascension Meredith Monk 2011 Puzzle Muteson En Garde 2011 Lumiere Dustin O'Halloran 2011 All Things Will Unwind My Brightest Diamond 2010 The Suburbs Arcade Fire 2010 Strange Waves Dirty Projectors 2010 Go Andrew McPherson 2010 I Drink the Air Before Me Nico Muhly 2010 High Violet The National 2010 LP4 Ratatat 2010 Strange Weather, Isn't It? !!! 2009 The Conformist Faux Fix 2008 A Thousand Shark's Teeth My Brightest Diamond 2006 Speaks Volumes Nico Muhly
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References
External links Nadia Sirota, official website