Bio
Nadine Dyskant-Miller is a composer, flutist, and farmer from a small town in western New York State, now living in the Boston area. Her music draws on her background in classical music, the traditional music of Québec, Ireland, and New England, and free improvisation. She has composed for a range of ensembles both traditional and otherwise, including orchestra, flute choir, and mixed chamber ensembles. Nadine is also a full-time farmer and is dedicated to putting all her strength into nurturing the community around her.
In 2021 she was commissioned by the Eastman Community Music School and the Howard Hanson Institute for American Music to write this is the silence before the leaf sound grows, for flute choir, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Eastman School of Music. The performance will take place in March 2022, performed by the Krusenstjerna Scholarship Flute Choir, directed by Sophia Gibbs Kim. In March 2015, she premiered her piece They Move with No One Watching: Dances at the New York Flute Club Fair as a prize-winner in the NYFC composition competition, and in 2009 her Trio for Violin, Viola, and Cello won first prize in Chamber Music Rochester's Young Composer Competition, which culminated in a performance by Chamber Music Rochester. In August 2015, They Move with No One Watching: Dances was performed by flutist Amy Porter at the National Flute Association Convention in Washington D.C.
Nadine is a founding member of The Suburban Piano Quartet, a performance ensemble that combines elements of music, spoken word, dance, theater, and the visual arts to create a variety of works that incorporate both written and improvised material. In 2015, they wrote and performed Requiem in Water, an experimental choral piece commissioned by the McCormick Bridgehouse and Chicago River Museum.
She is also an active contra-dance musician, performing traditional music of Québec, Ireland, and New England for dances and concerts throughout the Northeast. She has been featured at festivals including the New England Folk Festival, the Flurry Festival, Ashokan New Year's Eve Weekend, Michigan Dance Heritage Fall Weekend, Fiddlehead Frolic, and the Ann Arbor Dawn Dance Weekend.
She received her Bachelor of Music with Honors from the University of Michigan, where she studied composition with Evan Chambers, Kristin Kuster, Erik Santos, and Paul Schoenfeld, and flute with Amy Porter.
In 2021 she was commissioned by the Eastman Community Music School and the Howard Hanson Institute for American Music to write this is the silence before the leaf sound grows, for flute choir, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Eastman School of Music. The performance will take place in March 2022, performed by the Krusenstjerna Scholarship Flute Choir, directed by Sophia Gibbs Kim. In March 2015, she premiered her piece They Move with No One Watching: Dances at the New York Flute Club Fair as a prize-winner in the NYFC composition competition, and in 2009 her Trio for Violin, Viola, and Cello won first prize in Chamber Music Rochester's Young Composer Competition, which culminated in a performance by Chamber Music Rochester. In August 2015, They Move with No One Watching: Dances was performed by flutist Amy Porter at the National Flute Association Convention in Washington D.C.
Nadine is a founding member of The Suburban Piano Quartet, a performance ensemble that combines elements of music, spoken word, dance, theater, and the visual arts to create a variety of works that incorporate both written and improvised material. In 2015, they wrote and performed Requiem in Water, an experimental choral piece commissioned by the McCormick Bridgehouse and Chicago River Museum.
She is also an active contra-dance musician, performing traditional music of Québec, Ireland, and New England for dances and concerts throughout the Northeast. She has been featured at festivals including the New England Folk Festival, the Flurry Festival, Ashokan New Year's Eve Weekend, Michigan Dance Heritage Fall Weekend, Fiddlehead Frolic, and the Ann Arbor Dawn Dance Weekend.
She received her Bachelor of Music with Honors from the University of Michigan, where she studied composition with Evan Chambers, Kristin Kuster, Erik Santos, and Paul Schoenfeld, and flute with Amy Porter.