Performance Year: 2025
Pianist Adam Nielsen enjoys a diverse career as a soloist, collaborator, répétiteur, and coach. His performances have been praised as “deftly and sensitively played” (New York Times), “an emotional account of the score” (Musical America), and “tapping into the emotional core of his audience” (Times Picayune, New Orleans).
Born in Arco, Idaho, Nielsen has served as pianist, coach, chorus master, and assistant conductor for Juilliard’s Marcus Institute of Vocal Arts since 2011. As an opera pianist, he has worked for Harvard’s American Repertory Theater, Aspen Opera Theater, Virginia Opera, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Metropolitan Opera, the Richard Tucker Foundation, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the Dallas Opera, and Lyric Opera of Chicago. He has also been a staff pianist with the Steans Institute of the Ravinia Festival and the Heifetz International String Institute.
As a soloist and chamber musician, he has appeared in concert with the St. Louis Symphony, Utah Symphony, Stony Brook Symphony, the Fry Street Quartet, A Far Cry, Windscape, and in recital with Andres Cardenes, Tamara Mumford, Ryan Speedo Green, Steven LaBrie, Simone Osborne, Davone Tines, Claire DeSevigne, and Ying Fang. Recital appearances include Carnegie Hall, the Frick, Alice Tully Hall, Ravinia Festival, Abravanel Hall, Aspen Festival, Chicago’s Myra Hess Series, and the Vilar Center in Beaver Creek, CO.
Mr. Nielsen earned degrees in Piano Performance from Utah State University (BM), The Juilliard School (MM), and Stony Brook University (DMA).
