About

Nathaniel Pierce, cellist and tenor, thrives in exploring new ways to engage in the art of performance. Pierce has performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and has been a featured soloist with the Toledo, Dexter, Dearborn, Albany, Ann Arbor and Birmingham-Bloomfield Symphonies, the Rose Chamber Orchestra as well as with the University of Michigan and Indiana University Symphonies. As a recitalist, Pierce has performed his own innovative arrangements for cello and voice, such as Schubert’s Winterreise with pianist Martin Katz, and paraphrases of Wagner’s Walkure and Tristan and Isolde with pianist Amy Cheng. He premiered Frank Stemper's Good Night Moon for solo cello and voice written for Pierce in May 2021. Recent engagements included a recital with pianist John Etsell at the La Maison de la Musique of repertoire for tenor and cello, including Pierce’s own transcription of Benjamin Britten’s Canticle III.

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