NANCIA D'ALIMONTE Nancia D’Alimonte serves as director of orchestral activities at The George Washington University in Washington DC and is the Music Director and Conductor of NIH Philharmonia in Bethesda MD; she also is an Education Programs Consultant for the National Philharmonic at the Strathmore Center. In December 2009, D’Alimonte made her Kennedy Center Concert Hall debut conducting in Handel’s Messiah Sing-along concert, working with members of the NSO and other distinguished musicians and soloists. Guest conducting appearances have included concerts with the “Mihail Jora” Bacau Philharmonic in Romania, National Chamber Orchestra at Organ Hall in Chisinau, Moldova (sponsored in part by the US Embassy), Academic State Ballet Theatre Orchestra in St. Petersburg, Russia, Finger Lakes Symphony Orchestra (NY), Macon Symphony Orchestra (GA) and Brighton Symphony Orchestra (NY). She was a winner of the International Conductors Workshop Award (GA). As a doctoral student at the Eastman School of Music, she conducted performances with the Eastman Philharmonia, Eastman School Symphony Orchestra, Eastman Chamber Orchestra and contemporary music ensembles.
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D’Alimonte received a Doctor of Musical Arts in orchestral conducting from the Eastman School of Music where she studied with Israeli conductor, Maestro Mendi Rodan; she also was a recipient of Eastman’s prestigious Evan Whallon conducting award. She received her Master of Music in horn performance from Ithaca College, and she studied horn in post-graduate work at the Royal Flemish Music Conservatory in Brussels, Belgium with Andre Van Driessche. She received a Bachelor of Music Education with applied horn from Bowling Green State University. D’Alimonte has attended the distinguished American Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival where she had the opportunity to work with conductors David Zinman, Murry Sidlin and Jorma Panula. Additional conducting teachers include Robert Spano, Ivan Fisher, Leonid Korchmar, Sian Edwards, Daniel Lewis, Kenneth Kiesler and Gustav Meier. Links: NIH Philharmonia, Concert Audio Page |
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