Nailah Nombeko

About

Nailah Nombeko (b.) is a native New Yorker. Her music has been performed all over the US in such venues as Symphony Space, Columbia University, The University of Kansas, National Sawdust and The Portland Opera. Internationally her music was performed in the Netherlands with soprano Marijke Groenendaal and in England at the Royal Northern College of Music. Ms. Nombeko is primarily an art song composer receiving commissions from Sparks and Wiry Cries to write for international opera star Karen Slack, and most recently Kara Dugan for WQXR’s “In a New York Minute” where five composers were commissioned to set poems about life during the pandemic. This was premiered in December 2021. In August of 2021 Ms. Nombeko’s short opera entitled “Sunder” was premiered at the University of Maryland and the Annapolis Opera. This performance was a new work reading with the Maryland Opera Studio. In addition to receiving art song and opera commissions she was commissioned to write a string quartet for the ETHEL Quartet and most recently for renowned oboist Jared Hauser (2021) with Intersection Music in Nashville TN.

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