Nina Stern

A Historical Performance faculty member since 2012, Nina Stern, born in New York City, has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, City Opera, New York Collegium, Concert Royal, Philharmonia Baroque, Sinfonia NY, American Classical Orchestra, Apollo’s Fire, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Orchestra della Scala (Milan), I Solisti Veneti, Hesperion XX, and Tafelmusik. She is featured in recordings on the Erato, Harmonia Mundi, Sony Classics, Newport Classics, Wildboar, Telarc, and Smithsonian labels. With the ensemble East of the River, which she co-directs with Daphna Mor, Stern performs traditional music from Eastern Europe, Armenia, and the Middle East. She founded S’Cool Sounds, an award winning music education non-profit organization and serves as Director of Community Engagement for the Boston Early Music Festival. Stern was director of education for the New York Collegium, consulted for Midori and Friends and for Carnegie Hall’s Weill Institute, developed a teacher-training course for the Amherst Early Music Festival, and has written two books of traditional music arranged for recorders and percussion. Stern is a former faculty member at Mannes College and Milan’s Civica Scuola di Musica and has taught at Oberlin Conservatory and the Five Colleges in Massachusetts. Stern received a soloist degree from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland where she studied with Jeanette van Wingerden and Hans-Rudolf Stalder.