Adam Nielsen

Pianist Adam Nielsen (MM ’07, piano) enjoys a diverse career as a collaborative pianist, répétiteur, coach, and artistic administrator. Highlights include the Chautauqua Institute Chamber Music Series, Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten, Daniel Catan’s Florencia en el Amazonas, and Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer at the Metropolitan Opera, an American recital tour with bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green culminating in a Carnegie Zankel Hall debut, at the Met, a residency as head coach of the Académie d’Festival Aix-en-Provence,  recital with bass-baritone Davóne Tines at Carnegie Hall and as part of the Shriver Concert Series in Baltimore. That collaboration has also taken them to the Barbican, Stanford Live, Ravinia, and the Kennedy Center. Nielsen has also had engagements with bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green, mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford, and baritone Steven LaBrie. A répétiteur and assistant conductor at the Met and a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Nielsen has also performed at the Frick Collection, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum of Art, St. Louis Celebrity Series, Alice Tully Hall, Aspen Festival, Chicago’s Myra Hess Series, the Heifetz Institute, and the Vilar Center in Beaver Creek, Colorado. He has appeared in concert with the St. Louis Symphony, Utah Symphony, Stony Brook Symphony, the Fry Street Quartet, a Far Cry, and Windscape, and in recital with Erin Morley, Joshua Hopkins, Liv Redpath, Jakub Orliński, and Ying Fang, among others.

Nielsen has served on the music staff at Opera Theater of St. Louis and been  guest music staff with Washington National Opera, Harvard’s American Repertory Theater, Aspen Opera Theater, Virginia Opera, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Richard Tucker Foundation, the Dallas Opera, Teatro Nuovo, and Lyric Opera of Chicago. Nielsen also enjoys a career as a recording artist for film and television. His playing can be heard in The Upside (STX/Lantern Entertainment), The Chaperone (PBS), The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson), The Staircase (Netflix), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime), and The Unforgiveable (Netflix). In addition to Juilliard, Nielsen earned piano performance degrees from Utah State University (bachelor’s) and Stony Brook University (doctorate). Born in Arco, Idaho, Nielsen was raised primarily in Salt Lake City and has called New York City home since 2005.