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Nicole Piunno
Biography
Nicole Piunno (b. 1985) is an American composer and trumpeter.
Dr. Piunno holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition and a Master of Music degree in theory pedagogy at Michigan State University, 2014. Her composition teachers were Ricardo Lorenz and Charles Ruggiero. She earned a Master of Music degree in composition at Central Michigan University, studying with David Gillingham. She has also worked with Jason Bahr, David Ludwig, and Tony Zilincik. Nicole earned a Bachelor of Music degree in music education from Ohio Wesleyan University, where her emphasis was on trumpet.
She has performed with the Central Ohio Symphony Orchestra and appeared as a soloist with the Ohio Wesleyan University Chamber Orchestra.
Dr. Piunno views music as a vehicle for seeing and experiencing the realities of life. Her music often reflects the paradoxes in life and how these seemingly opposites are connected as they weave together. Her harmonic language and use of counterpoint mirrors the complexity of our world by acknowledging lightness and darkness, past and present, beauty and brokenness, confinement and freedom, spiritual and physical, life and death.
Her music has recently been performed by the Principal Brass Quintet of the New York Philharmonic, Athena Brass Band, University of Akron Faculty Brass Quintet, and the Michigan State University Symphony Band.
Dr. Piunno was the winner of the 2018 Female Composer Competition, Beta Omicron Chapter, Kappa Kappa Psi. She teaches in the city schools of Dublin, Ohio.
Works for Winds
Adaptable Music
- Postcard from Sequoia (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Solace Dance (Flex instrumentation) (2016/2020)
- Three Miniatures (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- You Decide (Adaptable Band) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Articulate March (2016)
- At a Crossroads (2022)
- Autumn Air (2016)
- Be Still and Still Moving (2020)
- Beauty Broken (2015)
- Blue Radiance (2020)
- Bright Shadow Fanfare (2021)
- Catharsis (2020)
- Concerto for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble (2018)
- Dance the Joy Alive (2016)
- Eternity in an Hour (2016)
- I Will Lament and Love (2018)
- Image on Truth (2019)
- Letters from the Traveling Doll (2021)
- Look Not Upon Us (2011)
- Monterey Sketches
- Night Watches (2020)
- On a Hill Far Away
- Postcard from Sequoia (2019)
- Postcard from Sequoia (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Resound (2021)
- Safely Rest (2020)
- Shifting Shadows
- Solace Dance (2016)
- Solace Dance (Flex instrumentation) (2016/2020)
- The Spirit Is Willing (2023)
- Spring Fanfare (2016)
- Sunflower Studies (2023)
- Three Miniatures (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Through Wind and Whispers (2014)
- Where Words Cannot Go (2020)
- Woven
- You Decide (Adaptable Band) (2020)
Resources
- Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "Nicole Piunno." Accessed 28 April 2018
- Nicole Piunno website Accessed 17 March 2022