For the American slave, nanny, cook, and model, see Nancy Green. For the Canadian senator and alpine skier, see Nancy Greene.
Nancy Green (born May 25, 1952) is an American cellist.
Green was born in Boston in 1952[1] and started playing the cello at age eight.[2] She studied at the Juilliard School with Leonard Rose and Lynn Harrell, and performed in the masterclasses of Mstislav Rostropovich.[3] After receiving a Rockefeller grant to study in London, England with Jacqueline du Pré, she continued her studies at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, Germany with Johannes Goritzki.[4]
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 (Biddulph), complete Arensky works for cello[5] (JRI) 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 (JRI).
With her longstanding duo partner, Frederick Moyer, (also her cousin), Green recorded numerous CDs on the JRI label. She also performed regularly as a duo with Brazilian pianist Diana Kacso.
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 (Tucson) until 2006. In 2015 she stepped away from the concert stage in favor of recording.
She presently resides in the U.S.
The minor planet 11067, discovered in 1992, is named Greenancy in honor of Green.