Nathan Birkholz

  Nathan Birkholz

 

Education

  • B.Mus., Northern Illinois University, Major:Piano Performance, Minor French
  • M.Mus., Indiana University-Bloomington, Major:Piano Performance, Minor:Conducting
  • D.M.A., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Major: Piano Performance and Literature, Minor: Musicology

 

Current Courses Taught

  • MUS 050 Piano
  • MUS 150 Piano

 

 

 

Awards and Honors

  • Second Prize: Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, November 2010
  • 4th International Rachmaninoff Competition, Moscow, Russia, May 2008,

One of 35 participants from around the world, and the only American to

compete

  • Second Prize:  Kankakee Valley Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, March 2008
  • Winner of Wisconsin’s Neale Silva Young Artist’s Competition, 2004
  • Winner of the Northern Illinois University Concerto Competition, 2001

 

 

Performances & Lectures

  • Berkeley Piano Club, Berkeley, California, April 2012, Recital
  • Conducted a Masterclass and gave a recital at Contra Costa College, San Pablo, California, April 2012
  • Winter Concert for Congo, Pleasant Hill, California, December 2011
  • Richard Nixon Library, Yorba Linda, California, July 2011, Recital Appearance
  • Summer Recital Tour in North East Wisconsin, July 2011: Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Washington Island, Wis., Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis., St. Mary Catholic Church, Winneconne, Wis.
  • Lecture-Recitals on the two versions of Brahms’s Trio in B Major, Op. 8 for Piano, Violin, and Cello at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, July 2009
  • Featured on a live broadcast from Wisconsin Public Radio in Madison, WI
  • American Liszt Society Annual Symposium held on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2004, Recital appearance

 

Professional Affiliations

  • American Brahms Society
  • American Liszt Society
  • MTNA

 

 

Areas of Interest

  • Chamber Music
  • Lieder
  • Spanish Piano Music
  • The Music of Johannes Brahms
  • The Music of Franz Liszt
  • The Music of Sergei Rachmaninov
  • The Music of Beethoven