Nathaniel Pierce, cellist and tenor, is a highly active and multi-talented musician. He has performed as a soloist at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and has also been a featured soloist with the Toledo, Dexter, Dearborn, Albany, Ann Arbor and Birmingham-Bloomfield Symphonies, as well as the University of Michigan and Indiana University symphonies. He is a founder and Co-Artistic Director of the Anchorage Chamber Music festival, and Co-Education Director at the Innsbrook Institute. Pierce is a founding member of the Koinonia Piano Trio which has toured in Europe and in the States.
Pierce started his cello studies at the Cottbus Conservatory in Germany and also appeared on stage as a member of the children’s choir of the Brandenburg State Theater in Germany, where his parents were engaged as operatic soloists. Currently he is a Doctorate student at the University of Michigan, studying with Anthony Elliot for cello, and David Daniels and Martin Katz for voice. His previous teachers include Richard Aaron and Brandon Vamos.
