Nancy Ives

CELLO

Nancy Ives is Principal Cello of the Oregon Symphony and received a DMA and MM from the Manhattan School of Music and a BM from the University of Kansas. She has been featured soloist with the Oregon Symphony as well as orchestras in the Northeast, Midwest and Pacific Northwest. Nancy is Instructor of Chamber Music at Lewis & Clark College and is active as a teacher and recording artist. She is a frequent guest of groups such as Chamber Music Northwest, 45th Parallel, Portland Piano International Summer Festival, Third Angle, Pink Martini and Portland Cello Project, and her composition Shard is featured on a recent PCP album, to e.s.. She is a founder of Classical Up Close and has served on the Board of Directors of the Oregon Symphony. Nancy spent a year as “Cellist-in-Residence” with OPB’s arts magazine State of Wonder and frequently speaks about upcoming programs on All Classical Portland radio, as well as appearing on that station’s live broadcast program Thursdays@3. Nancy blogs at nancyives.com and classicalupclose.com.