Nailah Nombeko
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Nailah Nombeko
Nailah Nombeko is a native New Yorker. Her music was performed all over the US in such venues as Symphony Space, Columbia University, The University of Kansas, The University of Kentucky, The International Double Reed Conference at the University of Colorado, National Sawdust, The Annapolis Opera and The Portland Opera. Internationally her music was performed in the Netherlands with soprano Marijke Groenendaal and in England at the Royal Northern College of Music. She’s also written for artists such as Karen Slack, Kara Dugan and Jennifer Sgroe.
Ms. Nombeko also received commissions from the Maryland Opera Studio, the Ethel Quartet, Intersection Music to compose a new work for Oboist Jared Hauser, Ex-Aequo’s “Changing the Canon” project, and Skaneateles Music Festival.
In 2022 Ms. Nombeko was among nine composers selected to participate in the National Association of Teachers of Singing composer mentor/mentee program. As a participant of this program she was commissioned to write a new work for countertenor which will be premiered in the summer of 2023. She also wrote music for the PBS Documentary “Buildings and Moods.”
Her most recent projects include writing a string quartet for the Overlook Quartet in honor of the life of Mary Eliza Mahoney. This is a joint project with the New York Times “Overlooked Obituary Series” commissioned by ACM and produced in collaboration with the Esopus Foundation, Ltd. In April of 2023 soprano Emily Albrink’s Album entitled “Force of Nature” is set to be released. This album features a song cycle “Facets of Womanhood” with music by Nailah Nombeko and texts by Mary McCallum.
Nailah Nombeko is a member of the African American Art Song Alliance, Vox Novus and the New York Women Composers. Her song “Nobody Knows” is published by E.C. Schirmer.
Elfin
Year: 2014
Duration (in minutes): 2:30
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: mixed instrument trio
Publisher: Uheri Music Publishing
Preludes for Piano
Year: 2013
Duration (in minutes): 5:00
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: piano
Publisher: Uheri Music Publishing
Short Songs set to the Poetry of William Blake
Year: 2010
Duration (in minutes): 6 minutes
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Mount Morris Park Suite
Year: 2009
Duration (in minutes): 10 minutes
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, percussion, piano, violin
Short Pieces for piano-- What?!, Waterlilies and The Chase
Year: 2008
Duration (in minutes): 6:30
Category: piano
Obscurity
Year: 2005
Duration (in minutes): 5 minutes
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, flute, piano, violin
Piece for piano trio
Duration (in minutes): 5 minutes
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, cello, piano, violin
piece for piano four-hands, violin and flute
Duration (in minutes): 2 minutes
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, flute, piano, violin
Publisher: Uheri Music Publishing
If I Were Tall As Tall Can Be
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: composed to the poetry of Marsha Abrams
Yes-Man
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: composed to the poetry of Marsha Dale Abrams.
Various Rounds
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: choral
Description: Secular and religious rounds.Varying levels of difficulty.
Facets of Womanhood
Year: 2023
TRACK LIST
Weave me a Name
Rene Orth | Jeanne Minahan
1. Beginnings (1:47)
2. One Of Nine Children, Your (Wild) Grandmother (2:35)
3. The Return (3:20)
4. The Plaits (3:57)
5. Your Turn (2:32)
6. The Single Mother (1:20)
7. Handiwork (5:01)
Many Facets of Womanhood
Nailah Nombeko | Mary McCallum
8. Be brave, be bold, be free! (5:06)
9. Time to take this Leap! (3:54)
10. How do I keep it all together? (3:19)
Morreale Monologues
Steve Rouse | Vin Morreale, Jr.
11. I Know I Look Good (2:39)
12. Thank You (2:59)
13. Can You Keep a Secret? (2:01)
14. Rest Now (3:46)
15. I Love This Song (2:36)
Force of Nature
Jake Heggie | Emily Albrink and Kathleen Kelly
16. Force of Nature (3:11)
17. Space Mountain (4:35)
18. Now I See You (3:10)
Composers: Jake Heggie, Rene Orth, Steve Rouse and Nailah Nombeko
Label: Lexicon Classics
Label's Website: https://www.lexiconclassics.com/force-of-nature
Product ID: LC2304
Short Songs to the Poetry of William Blake
Five songs for soprano and piano.
1. The Lilly
2. The Garden of Love
3. The Divine Image
4. My Pretty Rose Tree
5. The Sick Rose
Tracks 1,2,4 and 5: Sarah Comfort Reed, soprano and Michelle Horsley pianist
Track 3: Sara Paar, soprano and Marcia Eckert, pianist
Composers: Nailah Nombeko
Label: CDBaby.com
Label's Website: www.nailahnombeko.com
Product ID: 1.95E+11
Buy URL: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/sarahcomfortreed?SourceCode=HEARNOW
Buy URL 2: https://music.apple.com/us/album/short-songs-to-the-poetry-of-william-blake-ep/1490034909
Multifarious Aggressions (excerpt)
Year: 2019
Composer: Nailah Nombeko
Description: String Quartet
Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iijU17CP7fM
Agrestic Landscape-Birds at Dawn
Year: 2021
Composer: Nailah Nombeko
Description: Solo Oboe Piece
Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6f-jiOVbtw
Short Songs to the Poetry of William Blake
Year: 2012
Composer: Nailah Nombeko
Description: Soprano Tiffany Du Mouchelle and pianist Marcia Eckert perform composer Nailah Nombeko's "Four Songs" to Poems by William Blake" on February 5, 2012 at the New York Composers Circle Concert at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, 131 East 10th Street, New York, NY.
Video URL: https://youtu.be/eGttHHRnYSM
Obscurity
Composer: Nailah Nombeko
Description: Composer's Voice presents Nailah Nombeko's "Obscurity" performed by violinist, Stanichka Dimitrova, and pianist, Noah Palmer at the Jan Hus Church, New York City, 2013.
Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDx6Ch2ORtQ
2023 Calendar
Skaneateles Festival: “Following Harriet”
Soprano, Kearstin Piper Brown will be performing “Fortitude” in celebration of the life of Harriet Tubman.
Venue: First Presbyterian Church;Time: 8pm; Date: August 4th, 2023
National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) “Let it be new” digital concert
Countertenor,Nick Kelliher and pianist David Mamedov will premiere “Courage.”
Time: 4pm EST; Date June 25th
International Society of Bassists
Bassist, Kate Alexandra and Pianist Christina Lalog will perform “Anima.”
Time: 3 pm; Date: June 7th
Gregory Weissman, oboe and Markus Kaitila, pianist will perform “Piece for Oboe and Piano #2”
Venue: Redeemer Episcopal Church in Astoria Queens
Time: 4 pm; Date: May 7th
Overlooked No More
The Overlook String Quartet will be performing a string quartet written by Nailah Nombeko honoring the life of Mary Eliza Mahoney
Venue: Symphony Space; Time: 7 pm; Date: April 28th 2023
Emily Albrink, soprano and Kathy Kelly, pianist
Baylor University: March 17th 2023; University of Notre Dame: March 21, 2023; University of Louisville: March 24th 2023; Les Jardins de Sardy: July 20th 2023.
Pianist, Alexander Wu “Going the Distance”
This is a solo and chamber music concert celebrating New York City composers of today and the centennial of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.”
Venue: Third Street Music School Settlement; Time: 7 pm; Date: March 24th, 2023
Oboist, Jared Hauser will perform “Agrestic Landscape”
Venue: SUNY Fredonia Oboe Day; Date: March 5th, 2023; Venue: Louisiana State University School of Music; Time: 7:30 pm; Date: February 27th, 2023.
Pianist, Alexander Wu “A Music Legacy-Three Centuries of the African Diaspora”
Venue: Elmont Public Library; Time: 2 pm; Date: February 5th
Louisiana Philharmonic String Quartet performing “Multifarious Aggressions”
Venue: Gasa Gasa; Time: 6 pm; Date: January 5th
Ms. Nombeko also received commissions from the Maryland Opera Studio, the Ethel Quartet, Intersection Music to compose a new work for Oboist Jared Hauser, Ex-Aequo’s “Changing the Canon” project, and Skaneateles Music Festival.
In 2022 Ms. Nombeko was among nine composers selected to participate in the National Association of Teachers of Singing composer mentor/mentee program. As a participant of this program she was commissioned to write a new work for countertenor which will be premiered in the summer of 2023. She also wrote music for the PBS Documentary “Buildings and Moods.”
Her most recent projects include writing a string quartet for the Overlook Quartet in honor of the life of Mary Eliza Mahoney. This is a joint project with the New York Times “Overlooked Obituary Series” commissioned by ACM and produced in collaboration with the Esopus Foundation, Ltd. In April of 2023 soprano Emily Albrink’s Album entitled “Force of Nature” is set to be released. This album features a song cycle “Facets of Womanhood” with music by Nailah Nombeko and texts by Mary McCallum.
Nailah Nombeko is a member of the African American Art Song Alliance, Vox Novus and the New York Women Composers. Her song “Nobody Knows” is published by E.C. Schirmer.
Elfin
Year: 2014
Duration (in minutes): 2:30
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: mixed instrument trio
Publisher: Uheri Music Publishing
Preludes for Piano
Year: 2013
Duration (in minutes): 5:00
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: piano
Publisher: Uheri Music Publishing
Short Songs set to the Poetry of William Blake
Year: 2010
Duration (in minutes): 6 minutes
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Mount Morris Park Suite
Year: 2009
Duration (in minutes): 10 minutes
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, percussion, piano, violin
Short Pieces for piano-- What?!, Waterlilies and The Chase
Year: 2008
Duration (in minutes): 6:30
Category: piano
Obscurity
Year: 2005
Duration (in minutes): 5 minutes
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, flute, piano, violin
Piece for piano trio
Duration (in minutes): 5 minutes
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, cello, piano, violin
piece for piano four-hands, violin and flute
Duration (in minutes): 2 minutes
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, flute, piano, violin
Publisher: Uheri Music Publishing
If I Were Tall As Tall Can Be
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: composed to the poetry of Marsha Abrams
Yes-Man
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: composed to the poetry of Marsha Dale Abrams.
Various Rounds
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: choral
Description: Secular and religious rounds.Varying levels of difficulty.
Facets of Womanhood
Year: 2023
TRACK LIST
Weave me a Name
Rene Orth | Jeanne Minahan
1. Beginnings (1:47)
2. One Of Nine Children, Your (Wild) Grandmother (2:35)
3. The Return (3:20)
4. The Plaits (3:57)
5. Your Turn (2:32)
6. The Single Mother (1:20)
7. Handiwork (5:01)
Many Facets of Womanhood
Nailah Nombeko | Mary McCallum
8. Be brave, be bold, be free! (5:06)
9. Time to take this Leap! (3:54)
10. How do I keep it all together? (3:19)
Morreale Monologues
Steve Rouse | Vin Morreale, Jr.
11. I Know I Look Good (2:39)
12. Thank You (2:59)
13. Can You Keep a Secret? (2:01)
14. Rest Now (3:46)
15. I Love This Song (2:36)
Force of Nature
Jake Heggie | Emily Albrink and Kathleen Kelly
16. Force of Nature (3:11)
17. Space Mountain (4:35)
18. Now I See You (3:10)
Composers: Jake Heggie, Rene Orth, Steve Rouse and Nailah Nombeko
Label: Lexicon Classics
Label's Website: https://www.lexiconclassics.com/force-of-nature
Product ID: LC2304
Short Songs to the Poetry of William Blake
Five songs for soprano and piano.
1. The Lilly
2. The Garden of Love
3. The Divine Image
4. My Pretty Rose Tree
5. The Sick Rose
Tracks 1,2,4 and 5: Sarah Comfort Reed, soprano and Michelle Horsley pianist
Track 3: Sara Paar, soprano and Marcia Eckert, pianist
Composers: Nailah Nombeko
Label: CDBaby.com
Label's Website: www.nailahnombeko.com
Product ID: 1.95E+11
Buy URL 2: https://music.apple.com/us/album/short-songs-to-the-poetry-of-william-blake-ep/1490034909
Multifarious Aggressions (excerpt)
Year: 2019
Composer: Nailah Nombeko
Description: String Quartet
Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iijU17CP7fM
Agrestic Landscape-Birds at Dawn
Year: 2021
Composer: Nailah Nombeko
Description: Solo Oboe Piece
Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6f-jiOVbtw
Short Songs to the Poetry of William Blake
Year: 2012
Composer: Nailah Nombeko
Description: Soprano Tiffany Du Mouchelle and pianist Marcia Eckert perform composer Nailah Nombeko's "Four Songs" to Poems by William Blake" on February 5, 2012 at the New York Composers Circle Concert at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, 131 East 10th Street, New York, NY.
Video URL: https://youtu.be/eGttHHRnYSM
Obscurity
Composer: Nailah Nombeko
Description: Composer's Voice presents Nailah Nombeko's "Obscurity" performed by violinist, Stanichka Dimitrova, and pianist, Noah Palmer at the Jan Hus Church, New York City, 2013.
Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDx6Ch2ORtQ
2023 Calendar
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Skaneateles Festival: “Following Harriet”
Soprano, Kearstin Piper Brown will be performing “Fortitude” in celebration of the life of Harriet Tubman.
Venue: First Presbyterian Church;Time: 8pm; Date: August 4th, 2023
National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) “Let it be new” digital concert
Countertenor,Nick Kelliher and pianist David Mamedov will premiere “Courage.”
Time: 4pm EST; Date June 25th
International Society of Bassists
Bassist, Kate Alexandra and Pianist Christina Lalog will perform “Anima.”
Time: 3 pm; Date: June 7th
Gregory Weissman, oboe and Markus Kaitila, pianist will perform “Piece for Oboe and Piano #2”
Venue: Redeemer Episcopal Church in Astoria Queens
Time: 4 pm; Date: May 7th
Overlooked No More
The Overlook String Quartet will be performing a string quartet written by Nailah Nombeko honoring the life of Mary Eliza Mahoney
Venue: Symphony Space; Time: 7 pm; Date: April 28th 2023
Emily Albrink, soprano and Kathy Kelly, pianist
Baylor University: March 17th 2023; University of Notre Dame: March 21, 2023; University of Louisville: March 24th 2023; Les Jardins de Sardy: July 20th 2023.
Pianist, Alexander Wu “Going the Distance”
This is a solo and chamber music concert celebrating New York City composers of today and the centennial of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.”
Venue: Third Street Music School Settlement; Time: 7 pm; Date: March 24th, 2023
Oboist, Jared Hauser will perform “Agrestic Landscape”
Venue: SUNY Fredonia Oboe Day; Date: March 5th, 2023; Venue: Louisiana State University School of Music; Time: 7:30 pm; Date: February 27th, 2023.
Pianist, Alexander Wu “A Music Legacy-Three Centuries of the African Diaspora”
Venue: Elmont Public Library; Time: 2 pm; Date: February 5th
Louisiana Philharmonic String Quartet performing “Multifarious Aggressions”
Venue: Gasa Gasa; Time: 6 pm; Date: January 5th