Nancy Harder, instructor of aural skills

Nancy Harder earned a M.M. degree in accompanying from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and a B.M. in piano performance summa cum laude from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. She has also studied at the Conservatoire de Montreux, Switzerland. Described by the Classical Voice of North Carolina as showing “guts and passion” and being “emotive and artful,” Harder has performed across the United States and Europe. Select performances, in both piano and voice, have included collaborative artist recitals in Austria with the American Institute of Musical Studies; soloing with the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra (as the only person to win the Richard R. Deas Concerto Competition twice); singing the operatic role of Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, and participating in masterclasses with Barbara Bonney, Harold Heiburg, and Walter Moore. She was also a recipient of a research fellowship for her work on a critical edition of an original Liszt manuscript at Yale University.