Ms. Sirota is a faculty member in the College for the following department(s) and division(s): Contemporary Performance — Viola (College)

Hailed by Time Out New York as one of "New York's brightest, busiest players," violist Nadia Sirota is best known as an interpreter of new music, having commissioned and premiered dozens of works by composers and songwriters including Marcos Balter, Caleb Burhans, Bryce Dessner, Judd Greenstein, Nico Muhly, Valgeir Sigurðsson, and Ryan Streber. She received her undergraduate and Master's degrees from the Juilliard School, where she performed as co-founder of the AXIOM ensemble, initiated the Castleman/Amory/Huang studio’s New Music Project, and created the Juilliard Plays Juilliard program for student composers and performers. Nadia has collaborated as soloist and chamber musician with such artists as Marin Alsop, Joseph Kalichstein, Itzhak Perlman, and the Silk Road Ensemble, and has worked with such composers as Milton Babbitt, Meredith Monk, Osvaldo Golijov, and Max Richter. Currently a member of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), she was a founding fellow of the Academy, a program of Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute. She can also be found performing with such groups as Continuum, The Meredith Monk Ensemble, and Alarm Will Sound. In the spring of 2009, Nadia will make her solo recording debut with an album on the newly-minted New Amsterdam label, including music by Judd Greenstein, Nico Muhly and Marcos Balter. In addition to playing viola, Nadia also hosts Overnight Music on WNYC, 93.9FM and WNYC.org.

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