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21 May 2015, Article
Teaching, Tutoring, Accompanying, and Transcription Services
Teaching, Tutoring, Transcribing/Copyist Work, Recording, and Accompanying For more detailed information about my online studio and policies, please visit my dedicated studio website:  studio-dipaolo.weebly.com  ! The information below should only be considered a summary. Piano/Music Theory/Aural Skills/Composition Instruction Online via Google Meet:  30-Minute Lessons: $120 USD/month or $35 per one-time lesson 45-Minute Lessons: $160 USD/month or $50 per one-time lesson ...
21 May 2015, Article
Reviews and Press
Press Article from the Northville Record on my piano trio and performance - July 2007 (PDF)  Article from Classical Singer on the Shoperatic marketplace, which mentions my Accessible Accompaniments - Oct/Nov. 2017  (PDF) Article from Cleveland Classical on the She Scores festival, with a couple specific mentions of my work - June 2022  (PDF) Article from International Piano on the 22 Nocturnes for Chopin - September 2023  (PDF) I've downloaded and hosted all the above ...
21 May 2015, Article
Audio and Video Recordings
Selected Recordings (all were recorded live unless otherwise noted) Please Note: the hosted files are slowly, but surely being replaced by YouTube links (to prevent dealing with hosting sites being sold or changed as they have a few times already). You may view most of the videos at the DiPaoloPiano YouTube channel; however, a few of them are hosted on other channels. All links will open in new windows. Enjoy! NEW! Nicole and violinist Jamie Lee playing the Canzonetta (2nd movement) of ...
21 May 2015, Article
Solo Repertoire List
Note: my chamber and collaborative repertoire (including orchestral piano parts for piano concerti) is listed in a separate document . The list below includes solo selections, concerti for which I have learned the solo parts, and solo piano arrangements of works that originally came in other instrumentations. *Titles marked with an asterisk can be heard via  my YouTube channel  and others on YouTube. Please get in touch if you would like me to design a customized solo recital program ...
21 May 2015, News
2014 Events
11/2014 - Nicole served as a regional adjudicator for the Music Teachers National Association Student Composition Competition, evaluating elementary through Young Artist-level submissions. Congratulations to the division winners! 8/4-8/17/2014 - Nicole just successfully completed her first session as Faculty and Chair of the Composition Department at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp (Session IV, Middle School) in Twin Lake, Michigan, having been hired for the position only two weeks prior. 7/12/2014 - ...
21 May 2015, News
2013 News and Performances
b>10/3/2013 - Nicole's Divertimento for string quartet was premiered by the International String Quartet of Yucatan to an enthusiastic reception in Merida, Mexico. The run-through and performance can be viewed on Youtube here . Fall 2013 - Nicole will be performing with violinist Amy Schlicher as a newly-formed Duo del Mare aboard the MS Maasdam cruise liner (Holland America) for three months between September 28 and January 3, 2014. 6/14/2013 - Nicole has begun composing a series of ...
21 May 2015, News
2012 Happenings
12/2012 - Nicole's compositions will soon be featured at the LA-based production library Premier Tracks , which will make them available to film, commercial, TV and radio producers around the world. 10/19/2012 - The first movement of Nicole's Piano Trio in C minor was featured in recital at IU's Jacobs School of Music (with John Kluge, cello, and Ari Fisher, violin). In addition, the trio performed John Kluge's Song Without Words , and Nicole also served as a song accompanist. (Auer Hall, 5PM) ...
21 May 2015, News
Fall 2011 Events
12/3/2011 - Nicole presented a paper on complex emotions in Beethoven's Piano Sonata no. 31 in A-flat, op. 110 at the Gesellschaft fur Musiktheorie's annual meeting in Bern, Switzerland (via Skype!). 11/18/2011 - Nicole's Etude-Fantasy for solo flute was premiered by Eric Bowling at The Bishop, an off-campus venue in Bloomington, IN. (8PM) 10/14/2011 - Nicole performed the third movement of Sergei Prokofiev's Sonata no. 7 in B-flat, op. 83 at IU's annual Graduate Theory Association Recital in ...
21 May 2015, News
Summer 2011 Performances
7/10/2011 - Nicole served as the orchestral pianist in a recital featuring Mozart's beloved Piano Concerto in C major, K467 , with soloist June Xiao. View the concert program here . Recording forthcoming via IU Variations software. Summer 2011 - Nicole will serve as a solo and collaborative artist on select Saturday nights at the Story Inn restaurant (Story, IN).
21 May 2015, News
Spring 2011 Premieres
4/9, 5/21/2011 - Nicole presented her paper on Rachmaninoff at both the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis (Santa Barbara, CA) and at Louisiana State University's inaugural Biennial Music Colloquium (Baton Rouge, LA), by which point she has given this paper five times in five states in five months! 3/29/2011 - Two movements of Nicole's Sextet for mixed chamber ensemble were performed at IU's Jacobs School of Music under the baton of Jason Jedlicka, conductor, with the composer at the ...