Nadia Sirota
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{{short description|American viola player}}
Nadia Sirota (born in New York) is an American viola player.[https://web.archive.org/web/20140803234741/http://www.americanviolasociety.org/studio/2012/12/introducing-nadia-sirota Introducing Nadia Sirota!], American Viola Society, December 10th, 2012{{efn|1=New York – Volume 42 Nos 15-22 2009 "The viola is one of those soulful, lost-in-the- middle instalments that occasionally erupt into the foreground – when Nadia Sirota is handling one, for example."}} Her father is Robert Sirota, a composer and conductor.[https://web.archive.org/web/20130410024015/https://www.juilliard.edu/journal/qa-nadia-sirota 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.{{efn|1=The New Yorker – Volume 84, Nos 1-7 – Page 81 2008 "Muhly formed alliances with a number of musicians who have become regular collaborators, including Nadia Sirota, a violist. Sirota says of Muhly, "He is different from a lot of composers his age in that he prefers a kind of old-school way."}} 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,{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2009/giftguide-classical/list.html/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101008162959/https://www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2009/giftguide-classical/list.html/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 8, 2010 |title=Classical Music Gift Guide|last=Kozinn|first=Allan|date=2009|work=The New York Times}} and her second album, Baroque, was released in March 2013.{{cite web|url=http://www.bedroomcommunity.net/artists/nadia_sirota/|title=Bedroom Community > Nadia Sirota|website=www.bedroomcommunity.net|accessdate=12 August 2017}} 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.{{cite web |title=42nd Annual ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards Announced |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101111013950/http://www.ascap.com/press/2010/1108_taylorawards.aspx |archive-date=11 Nov 2010 |url=http://www.ascap.com/press/2010/1108_taylorawards.aspx |publisher=ASCAP |accessdate=10 May 2014}} 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, [https://www.newsounds.org/shows/meet-composer Meet the Composer], which she co-created and hosted.{{Cite web |title=Meet the Composer |url=https://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/meet-the-composer/ |access-date=2022-05-20 |website=The Peabody Awards |language=en-US}} 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.{{cite web |title= Nadia Sirota |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131027113636/http://www.msmnyc.edu/FacultyBio/fid/1019017303 |archive-date=27 Oct 2013 |url=http://www.msmnyc.edu/FacultyBio/fid/1019017303 |publisher=Manhattan School of Music |accessdate=10 May 2014}}
Since 2018, Sirota has served as the New York Philharmonic’s Creative Partner.{{Cite web|title=Bio|url=https://nadiasirota.com/bio|access-date=2021-08-09|website=Nadia Sirota|language=en-US}}
Discography
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| 2017 | Tessellatum | a Bedroom Community release |
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| 2013 | Baroque | a Bedroom Community release |
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| 2009 | First Things First |with Judd Greenstein and Clarice Jensen |
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| 2018 |
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| 2018 | Son Lux |
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| 2017 | Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly & James McAlister |
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| 2017 |
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| 2015 | So There | Ben Folds and yMusic |
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| 2015 | Divers |
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| 2014 |
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| 2013 | Secrets of Antikythera | Andrew McPherson |
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| 2013 | Lanterns | Son Lux |
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| 2013 | Traveling Alone |
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| 2012 |
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| 2012 | My Antagonist | Jónsi |
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| 2012 | Drones |
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| 2012 | Gossamer |
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| 2012 | Architecture of Loss |
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| 2011 | Lar Fleur de L'Aube |
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| 2011 |
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| 2011 | En Garde |
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| 2011 | Lumiere |
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| 2010 |
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| 2010 | Strange Waves |
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| 2010 | Go | Andrew McPherson |
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| 2010 | I Drink the Air Before Me |
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| 2010 | LP4 | Ratatat |
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| 2010 | !!! |
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| 2009 | The Conformist | Faux Fix |
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| 2006 | Speaks Volumes |
Notes
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References
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External links
- [https://nadiasirota.com/ Nadia Sirota], official website
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