A "sensitive pianist" who delivers "powerful interpretations," Nashville-based Nicole DiPaolo enjoys a multifaceted career as a sought-after pianist, harpsichordist, composer, arranger, coach, teacher, and online Adjunct Lecturer at Indiana University. Her compositions have been heard in Mexico, Ireland, Denmark, England, Macedonia, Kenya, and all over the US, and have been published with EVC Music.
Favorite performing highlights include giving the world premiere of H. Leslie Adams' Grand March for trumpet and piano, then accompanying his 90th birthday gala concert, joining the Camerata del Sol for its Baroque on the Border concerts as continuo harpsichordist, a Collaborative Piano Fellowship at the Bay View Music Festival, and two cruise ship tours as half the violin-piano ensemble Duo del Mare. Opera coaching credits include the Spooky Goose Opera's livestreamed Die Zauberflöte production and John Frederick Lampe's Pyramus and Thisbe at Indiana University, and she continues to coach professional and student opera singers in the Nashville area.
A metro Detroit native, Nicole holds a B.Mus from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, where she studied piano with Michele Cooker and Louis Nagel, composition with Bright Sheng, and basso continuo with Edward Parmentier. She also holds an MM in Music Theory and a doctoral minor in composition from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.
