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| - American cellist Nancy Green was born in Boston on May 25th, 1952 and grew up in Weston, Massachusetts. She attended the Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Leonard Rose and Lynn Harrell. After performing in the master classes of Mstislav Rostropovich, she moved to England on a Rockefeller grant to study with Jacqueline du Pré, and later resided in Düsseldorf, Germany where she continued her studies with Johannes Goritzki at the Robert Schumann Institut. Nancy Green's is known primarily as a recording artist. Her first commercial CD was an LP for GM Recordings of works by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. This was followed by three CDs on the Biddulph Recordings label (London, UK), two of which have been reissued on the American label, JRI Recordings. She has also recorded two CDs for Cello Classics (UK). Her first three CD releases included world premieres of the complete works of Robert Fuchs, 21 Hungarian Dances by Brahms arranged by Alfredo Piatti, and the complete works of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Subsequent world premieres include the complete works of Anton Arensky, works by Venezuelan composer Paul Desenne (including multi-tracked works for multiple cellos), complete works of Ferdinand Ries, and Donald Frances Tovey's sonata for solo cello. Green partnered with pianist/musicologist R. Larry Todd in a recording of complete works for cello and piano of Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel. This recording included the world premiere of Mendelssohn-Merk Variations in A Major, a work for which the cello part had been lost and for which Todd wrote a cello part. This work has been subsequently published by Bårenreiter in their edition of the complete works, with R. Larry Todd as editor. Nancy Green lived in England, Holland, and Germany from 1978 to 1995. She taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, Chetham's School of Music in Manchester (UK), and upon returning to the U.S. taught at the University of Arizona in Tucson until 2006. She presently resides in the U.S. (en)
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