COLLABORATIONS

NANCY GREEN, CELLIST

Nancy Green and Frederick Moyer have been performing together for over twenty years. From the Kennedy Center to Windsor Castle, audiences have loved the uncanny precision of their ensemble, their intensely musical approach and their obvious joy in playing together. The Green/Moyer Duo has made six highly-acclaimed recordings for the GM, JRI and Biddulph labels.

ABOUT NANCY GREEN

Hailed by Fanfare Magazine as "in the elite of today's concert cellists" (Sept/Oct 2006), Nancy Green is an international recording artist, known for her highly acclaimed CDs of previously unrecorded works as well as staples of the cello repertoire. Ms. Green was the first cellist to record the complete Hungarian Dances of Brahms arranged by Piatti, Donald Francis Tovey's sonata for solo cello, the complete works for cello and piano of Robert Fuchs, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Arensky, among others.
Her numerous CDs are broadcast frequently both in the United States and abroad and her performances have earned rave reviews internationally. Ms. Green's Tovey/Kodaly solo disc was chosen by Fanfare Magazine as among the top recordings of the year and reviews have likened her to great cellists such as Mstislav Rastropovich, Yo-Yo Ma, and Jacqueline du Pre.

Green has performed extensively on the concert stage and for radio and television in the United States, Europe, and the Far East. She has appeared as soloist in venues such as Boston's Symphony Hall, New York's Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Munich's Herkulessaal, Windsor Castle, and London's Wigmore Hall as well as major concert halls in Shanghai, Taipei, and Seoul.

Nancy Green studied at the Juilliard School with Leonard Rose and Lynn Harrell and performed in the master classes of Mstislav Rostropovich. She made her concerto debut in New York playing Dvorak concerto at Lincoln Center, was spotlighted as a Young Artist of the Year by Musical America and won prizes and awards including the Concert Artists Guild Award which sponsored her first New York recital. After receiving a Rockefeller grant for study in London with Jacqueline du Pre, she worked with Johannes Goritzki in Dusseldorf, Germany where she was winner of the Schmolz-Bickenbach Award.

GREEN/MOYER DUO DISCOGRAPHY

• JRI Recordings (J120)
• ARENSKY: The Complete Works for Cello and Piano
• RACHMANINOFF: Sonata for Piano and Cello, Opus 19
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• JRI Recordings (J117)
• BRAHMS-PIATTI: Twenty-One Hungarian Dances
• FRANZ SCHMIDT: Three Fantasy Pieces
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• JRI Recordings (J111)
• BRAHMS: Two Sonatas for Piano and Cello
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• JRI Recordings (J102)
• SCHUMANN: Fantasiestucke, Opus 73
• MENDELSSOHN: Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Opus 58
• DEBUSSY: Sonata for Cello and Piano
• BRITTEN: Sonata in C, Opus 65
• Biddulph Recordings (LAW 024)
• CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: The Complete Works for Cello and Piano
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• GM Recordings (GM 2011)
• RACHMANINOV: Sonata for Piano and Cello, Opus 19
• TCHAIKOVSKY: Pezzo Capriccioso

REVIEWS OF THE GREEN/MOYER DUO

“Having never heard of Nancy Green, or Frederick Moyer, or JRI Recordings, or indeed Lee, New Hampshire, I have been obliged to keep playing this recording over and over again to convince myself I have not been dreaming. But in fact I have been wide awake each time. The music is terrific. The performances are terrific. The sound is terrific... The performances, besides being technically top-rank, adjust to the distinctive style of each piece: a veritable demonstration of 'idiomatic performance' in every case...” Fanfare

“It's evident from the outset that cellist Nancy Green and her partner at the keyboard Frederick Moyer have plenty to say about this music. In sum, these are astoundingly good performances, played with empathetic grandeur and charisma... Frederick Moyer proves to be uncannily accommodating to Green's vital, invigorating style, even when the rhythmic interstices of the music are stretched almost to breaking point by the gripping spontaneity of her playing. It's all thrilling stuff...” Fanfare

“...some of the best chamber playing around. If everyone related as well as Green and Moyer, the world would be a better place.” American Record Guide

“It must be grateful, enjoyable music to play, with its highly varied impressionistic piano sonorities and idiomatic cello writing, and Nancy Green and Frederick Moyer take full advantage with performances of panache and expressive force.” Gramophone

“Green and Moyer are an exceptional tandem ... each player articulates the formal classicism of Brahms' music while fully exploring the emotions brimming from within. Their musical dialogue captures both the breadth of Brahms' compositional ideals and the intimacy of its execution... brimming with thoughtful artistry and lovely, lyrical playing... sublime performances...from aching introspection to breathless, biting brilliance, sometimes in the single sweep of a broad, well-paced phrase... world-class musicianship.” The Wichita Eagle

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“If everyone related as well as Green and Moyer, the world would be a better place.“

AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE