92Y School of Music Faculty Concert Series: Kirsten Jermé with Nathaniel LaNasa

• Kirsten Jermé, cello
• Nathaniel LaNasa, piano

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About Kirsten Jermé, cello

A devoted chamber musician, cellist Kirsten Jermé has performed internationally from Harlaxton College in England to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. to the Pieve di Gropina in Arezzo.

Based in New York City, Kirsten served as guest cellist of the Cassatt String Quartet for the 2022 Seal Bay Festival of American Chamber Music and has recently appeared with the Harlem Chamber Players, North Country Chamber Players, Atrikk Ensemble, and as a soloist with the Bar Harbor Music Festival. Formerly cellist of the Larchmere String Quartet, she performed across the U.S., in Canada and Italy and recorded for Naxos while serving for several seasons as Eykamp String Quartet Faculty Artist-in-Residence at the University of Evansville and Principal Cellist of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra. She has appeared as a chamber musician with the Carolina Ballet, Battleworks Dance Company at the Joyce Theater, and with members of the Louisville Ballet at the Speed Art Museum, and on series such as Electric Earth Concerts, the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music Raleigh Sights and Sounds Series, and the Strad for Lunch Recital Series. Her eclectic freelance life in New York has brought her to stages ranging from Carnegie, Weill and Zankel Halls to Madison Square Garden, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Roulette, and the United Nations, and she has taken part in several recent film score recordings.

Kirsten served as cello faculty at North Carolina State University and has given masterclasses at UNC-Chapel Hill, Otterbein and Western Kentucky University. A passionate proponent of chamber music pedagogy, she helped launch a chamber music course at the University of Evansville and run a string quartet mentorship program for the youth orchestra. A dedicated educator, she has been on faculty at New York institutions including 92nd Street Y School of Music and Greenwich House Music School, among numerous others, and has taught chamber music for the North Carolina Chamber Music Institute and Kidznotes. Kirsten received her M.M. at Eastman School of Music and her B.A. from Stony Brook University, and is currently a D.M.A. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. Her primary teachers include Colin Carr, Steven Doane, and Marcy Rosen.

About Nathaniel LaNasa, piano

Pianist Nathaniel LaNasa discovers fresh possibilities of sonority, gesture, and storytelling in music — especially in music being written NOW. In early 2022, Nate played sixty performances of Ricky Ian Gordon’s new opera for two pianos, Intimate Apparel, at Lincoln Center Theater. The work debuted on PBS Great Performances in September. In 2023, Nate's also appeared at Wigmore Hall, Royaumont Abbey, Musée d’Orsay, and with the Federation of Art Song (Princeton); he looks forward to returning to Brooklyn Art Song Society in January. Nate appeared in NYFOS Next’s 2021 show, 9 under 34, and on the mainstage in The Wider View last April. In October 2022 he became the curator of NYFOS Next, presenting a composer portrait of Errollyn Wallen and a program of diverse living composers entitled The Threefold Terror of Love at the Rubin Museum.

A consummate collaborator, he has been praised for his "stormy lyricism" (The New York Times) and his
"poise and elegance" (Feast of Music). As winners of the 2019 Joy In Singing International Art Song Competition, Nate and baritone Gregory Feldmann made their sold-out Carnegie Hall debut in February 2020. In April, they recorded Fauré and Ullmann songs for B records (Paris). Nate has also partnered extensively with vocalist Lucy Dhegrae; they have performed together in a candlelit crypt, as part of the Resonant Bodies Festival, and at the American Music Festival (Albany Symphony). Nate has premiered works for quarter-tone pianos by Dimitri Tymoczko at Princeton, made first recordings of chamber works by Tobias Picker for Tzadik, and workshopped Hannah Lash’s opera Desire at Columbia’s Miller Theater.

Nate's NYC credits include Alice Tully Hall, MoMA, and (le) Poisson Rouge. A graduate of the Juilliard School and a 2018 fellow at Tanglewood, Nate joined the coaching staff at Berlin Opera Academy in 2019, and the faculty of Saluzzo Opera Academy in 2021. He’s been teaching at Piano Works in Progress, in residence at the Adamant Music School, since 2017.