Connecting people through music since 2018
from founders Zachary Mowitz & Nick DiBerardino
Nodality is the convergence of separate things on one connecting point. We create and explore networks of connections between art and artists, musicians and audiences, and music and broader culture in a world searching for more nodality.
We are a composer/cellist duo and arts organization that cultivates direct links between artists and audiences with narrative-driven musical experiences. We create, commission, perform, and advocate for new music, emphasizing authentic stories and human connections.
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Suite Talk Digital Series to be released in Fall 2022
Nodality Music will soon be bringing Suite Talk to audiences around the world with the Suite Talk Digital Series. Produced in partnership with Guarnari Hall, the series is centered around stunning videos of two new works for solo cello: Oracle by our very own Nick DiBerardino, and Suite for Solo Cello, by Ira Mowitz, Zach’s dad. These videos will be released alongside a variety of other content drawing listeners into a personal dialogue with Zach and the composers. Look out for sneak peeks soon!
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Suite Talk Goes Digital
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About Nodality Music
Nodality Music was founded by cellist Zachary Mowitz and composer Nick DiBerardino as a platform for the presentation of narrative-driven concerts in non-traditional spaces. Our events feature a story-telling format that connects people through music and makes new music accessible to people across broad cultural contexts. We build bridges between artists and audiences through shared experiences of the connection between music and the world at large. We harness this connection to create unique projects that deliver impactful messages around social causes.
Our organization presents a wide variety of programs that highlight the stories behind meaningful art, that connect music to the world at large, and that work towards real social impact. These include live interactive concerts, large-scale commissioning projects, digital releases, and interdisciplinary collaborations.
Nodality Music is pioneering a new model for collaborative performance, where performer and composer take equal part in delivering musical experiences. We work to stimulate dialogue through interactive demonstrations with listeners that illuminate the music’s underlying creative forces and highlight the intersections between art and modern-day life. Along the way, we break down the walls between performer, composer, and audience, fostering greater human connection in classical music experiences.
A native of Princeton, NJ, Zach Mowitz made his solo debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in July 2018. He is an Artist in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium under the tutelage of Gary Hoffman. Having played with artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Robert McDonald, Ida Kavafian, Ettore Causa, Donald Weilerstein, and Hsin-Yun Huang, Zach has an intense passion for chamber music. As a member of Trio St. Bernard, he was awarded Gold Prize at the Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition. Zach has also performed at festivals such as the Gstaad Menuhin Festival String Academy, IMS Prussia Cove, the Perlman Music Program, and Music from Angel Fire. During the 2018/19 season, Zach performed as a member of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and appearedaas Guest Principal Cello for the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra.
In 2018, he graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in 2018, where he studied with Carter Brey and Peter Wiley.
A recipient of the Ian Fleming Instrumental Award and the Craxton Memorial Trust Award, Zach currently resides in London where he studies at the Royal College of Music with Richard Lester. Recently, he was awarded First Prize in the first World Bach Competition. In the summer of 2022, Zach will be attending the Marlboro Music Festival. In his spare time, Zach enjoys exploring the endless world of podcasts and tossing a frisbee.
Composer Nick DiBerardino is noted for creating "richly textured, multilayered" sound worlds (Minnesota Star Tribune) that tell fantastical tales. He has written music about everything from failed flying machines and particle physics to Walt Whitman and tall glasses of beet juice.
A Rhodes Scholar, Nick has received commissions from numerous artists and institutions, including Symphony Tacoma, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the New College Choir, arx duo, Sandbox Percussion, The Brass Project, Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, and Music From Angel Fire.
Nick founded England's first laptop orchestra, OxLOrk, and has designed several collaborative composition initiatives, including a children's opera composed with students at Girard College and a workshop series for people living with Alzheimer's disease, created in partnership with the Penn Memory Center.
Nick is the Director of Composition Studies at the Curtis Intitute of Music. He holds composition degrees from Princeton, Oxford, Yale, and Curtis.
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