JAMES NALLEY, Assistant Professor of Piano, is the winner of many national and international competitions and has performed across the United States, Canada, and Europe as a solo recitalist. He made his New York Debut in Carnegie Hall to great acclaim. Other solo appearances have included New York's Merkin Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rockefeller University, and Boston's Tsai Auditorium. He has performed for the Bravo Channel Broadcasts in Canada, the BBC in England, and numerous public radio stations across the country. He has appeared as soloist with many orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony. He is a frequent collaborator with vocalists and instrumentalists at venues in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.

Equally comfortable in chamber music, he has performed at many festivals including the Taos Chamber Music Festival and has collaborated with the Muir and Shanghai String Quartets. He was also the pianist for the Washington Opera Summer Program for three years at the Kennedy Center. Dr. Nalley has been a frequent guest artist/teacher and Artist-in-Residence at the University of New Orleans Festival and International Piano Competition. He has presented masterclasses at many institutions, and was a speaker at the 5th World Piano Pedagogy Conference. He has also given lectures on "The Use of Imagery to Introduce 20th Century Music to Piano Students" at the National Piano Wellness Seminar and the Boyle Arts Festival in Ireland. He was recently added to the Who's Who of Americallist for 2004. Dr. Nalley was the Artist-in-Residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, where he recorded a CD of the Charles Ives Sonata No. 1 and the Aaron Copland Piano Sonata. His CD was released on the Eroica Label. In 2002, Dr. Nalley made his Irish solo recital debut at the Boyle Arts Festival in Ireland and was also selected as a Fulbright Scholar for inclusion on the roster of Senior Specialists by the State Department for 2002-2007.

Dr. Nalley is a graduate of Temple University's Esther Boyer College of Music and the Eastman School of Music, where he received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree. He is represented by Lois Scott Management, Inc.