My Bio
Russell Nadel, 23, graduated from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland, in 2006, having earned Master's and Bachelor's degrees in music composition and a Bachelor's degree in Music Education. While at Peabody, he primarily studied with Dr. Bruno Amato and Dr. Harlan Parker. Recent awards include the 2006 Madge Cathcart Gerke Music Education Scholarship of the Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation, Second Prize in the 2006 Virginia Carty DeLillo Composition Competition, the Mu Phi Epsilon Sterling Senior Achievement Award for 2005, and the 2005 Peabody Alumni Association Award. Mr. Nadel's sextet Dodici was recently selected by the Bakersfield, CA Symphony to be featured on their 2006 New Directions Concert Series, and his chamber winds work Five Scenes for Ten Players won the Mu Phi Epsilon Original Composition Contest for 2005 and received Second Prize in the Prix d'Été X (2005). Other notable awards include Second Prize in the Eighteenth Annual APSU Young Composer's Competition (2004), a 2004 Peabody Development Grant, First Prize in the 2003 Vancouver Chamber Choir Young Composers' Competition (University category), and Second Prize in the Prix d'Été VIII (2003). Mr. Nadel was also the 2003 winner of the Peabody Camerata Student Composer Contest. Mr. Nadel will be teaching K-6 general music and 5th and 6th grade chorus at Mount Vernon Woods Elementary School in Alexandria, VA beginning in September 2006.
Mr. Nadel attended The Walden School in the summers of 2000 and 2001, and received their prestigious Director's Award in 2001. He received Second Prize in the 2001 Vancouver Chamber Choir Composition Competition and participated in the 2001 and 2002 Baltimore Choral Arts Society Student Composer Projects. Previous instructors in music theory and composition include Dr. Harold Boatrite and Christopher Buzby. Mr. Nadel has had original compositions performed and recorded by members of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, the Vancouver Chamber Choir, Voces Novae et Antiquae, Non Sequitur, and the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble; students at Peabody; and various student and adult choruses and bands in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, DC.