Nancy Green

Nancy Green (born May 25, 1952) is an American cellist.

Early life Green was born in Boston in 1952 and started playing the cello at age eight. She studied at the Juilliard School with Leonard Rose and Lynn Harrell, After receiving a Rockefeller grant to study in London, England with Jacqueline du Pré, In 1976 her debut at Carnegie Hall, sponsored by the Concert Artists Guild, was described as one by a "fine young musician" by the New York Times. In 1978 Green performed a cello solo with the Chappaqua Chamber Orchestra.

Career Green has taught at the Guildhall School of Music and the Chethams School of Music. In 1995, she joined the faculty at the University of Arizona, where she was head of cello studies. In 2005 she left academia to focus her time on performing and recording music.

Green was the first cellist to record the complete Hungarian Dances of Brahms arranged by Alfredo Piatti, Franz Schmidt’s Three Fantasy Pieces (after Hungarian National Melodies), and the complete works of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, all on Biddulph Recordings (London, UK) and later re-issued on JRI Recordings (USA). Other premieres include Donald Francis Tovey's sonata for solo cello (JRI), the complete works for cello and piano of Robert Fuchs, complete Arensky works for cello and works of Venezuelan composer Paul Desenne (Cello Classics) as well as Mendelssohn-Merk Variations in A major, newly completed by R. Larry Todd and published by Bärenreiter.

With her longstanding duo partner, Frederick Moyer, (also her cousin), Green recorded numerous CDs which are described as "musically thoughtful". She also performed regularly as a duo with Brazilian pianist Diana Kacso.

The minor planet 11067, discovered in 1992, is named Greenancy in honor of Green.

Selected works