Nancy Green

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

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, and performed in the masterclasses of Mstislav Rostropovich. 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.

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 (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.

• Nancy Green & R.Larry Todd, "Felix Mendelssohn: The Complete Works for Cello & Piano (Includes Bonus CD) - JRI Recordings", www.jrirecordings.com, retrieved June 25, 2022
• Nancy Green & Tannis Gibson, Song of the Birds: Spanish & Latin Cello, retrieved June 25, 2022
• Nancy Green, Desenne: Jaguar Songs (21st-Century Cello), retrieved June 25, 2022
• Nancy Green & Frederick Moyer, Brahms/Piatti, retrieved June 25, 2022
• Nancy Green, "Tovey and Kodaly: Two sonatas for solo cello - JRI Recordings", www.jrirecordings.com, retrieved June 25, 2022
• Nancy Green & Frederick Moyer, J143 - Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello and Piano with Frederick Moyer, retrieved September 2, 2022
• Nancy Green & Frederick Moyer, J132 - Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete Works for Cello and Piano, with Frederick Moyer, retrieved September 6, 2022
• Nancy Green with Bucharest Chamber Soloists, conductor Eric Shumsky, J129 - Haydn Cello Concertos, retrieved September 6, 2022
• Nancy Green & Tannis Gibson, J123 - Sonatas by Dohnanyi/Kodaly/Strauss, with Tannis Gibson, retrieved September 6, 2022
• Nancy Green & Frederick Moyer, J120 - Cello Works of Arensky and Rachmaninoff, retrieved September 6, 2022
• Nancy Green & Babette Hierholzer, J119 - Ries: Complete Works for Cello and Piano, retrieved September 6, 2022
• Nancy Green & Frederick Moyer, J111 - Johannes Brahms - Two Sonatas for Piano and Cello, retrieved September 6, 2022
• Nancy Green & Frederick Moyer, J102 -Green/Moyer Cello Recital, (Schumann, Mendelssohn, Debussy, Britten), retrieved September 6, 2022
• Nancy Green & Babette Hierholzer, J147 - Robert Volkmann Works for Cello and Piano, retrieved September 6, 2022
• Nancy Green & Caroline Palmer (November 8, 1992), LAW005 - Robert Fuchs: Complete Works for Cello and Piano, with Caroline Palmer, retrieved September 6, 2022
• Nancy Green & Franz-Josef Birk, A1 - Beethoven, Chopin, Bruch, de Falla, Bach/Moscheles, with Franz-Josef Birk, retrieved September 6, 2022