"Pianist Nancy Garniez, a recognized fixture of the New York musical scene...is a founding member of the Alaria Chamber Ensemble and a highly regarded teacher of piano and chamber music." (Critic Charles Timbrell)
ABOUT NANCY GARNIEZ


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    NANCY GARNIEZ enjoys a musical life that spans many different styles, centuries (15th to 21st), venues (classrooms to Carnegie Hall) and activities: performing, teaching people of all ages, writing, and recording. Many people know Nancy Garniez as the mother of versatile musician Rachelle Garniez.

    Founder of Alaria in 1983 and its pianist until 2008, she originated a unique course in Chamber Music at Mannes College The New School for Music in 1975, coordinating it until 2008.

    Garniez is the author of What Might It Mean? An Uncommon Glossary of Musical Terms and Concepts for the Stuck,Bored and Curious (1999); and of numerous articles: "The Teacher/Performer" (The Piano Quarterly, 1972); "Teaching Music Through Awareness" (Prism: A Learning Journal and Transformations, 1998); in Music For the Love of It: "Learning Music: An Obstacle Course" (2006); "The Ping-Pong of Chamber Music" (2003); "There's More To It Than Meets the Ear" (2002); "Warming up to Continuo Playing" (2001).

    She has three unedited live-performance solo CD's: Haydn/Bartok, Piano Works of Haydn,   Schubert/Dvorak, and two chamber music CD's: Alaria (Cowell, Clementi, Schumann, Shostakovich) and Alaria plays Tcherepnin. She performs regularly at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and in festivals throughout Europe, especially in Italy and in Prague.

     Re TONAL Refraction: A paper on educational applications delivered at the adjudicated Research Symposium at the Southeastern Conference on Music Education at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA in May 1998; Special Seminar at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, June 1998; a computer film with live performance premiered at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 1997.

     Ms. Garniez holds a B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, from Oberlin College, with a performance concentration in organ under Fenner Douglass. She studied organ on a Fulbright grant with Helmut Walcha in Frankfurt am Main. She was appointed Assistant Professor of Piano at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music in 1961; has taught piano and chamber music at Mannes since 1972 (Preparatory and Extension Divisions). She inaugurated experimental early childhood piano classes at Bloomingdale School of Music in NYC, and has taught music in conjunction with general curriculum in both public and private inner-city schools.