About Nicole
Dr Nicole Panizza is an internationally acclaimed collaborative pianist, scholar, educator, and arts consultant. A Fulbright Award recipient – and Harvard University, University of Oxford, and Manhattan School of Music research fellow – she completed her Doctoral studies with Roger Vignoles at the Royal College of Music. She has since gained international renown for inter-medial research that creatively explores cultural memory, embodied ethnographies, and the text-music partnership as a historical source.
Nicole has worked for Opera Australia, The Cologne and Covent Garden Opera Awards, and as Education Manager for The Royal Opera, Covent Garden. She has presented key lectures and seminars in Singapore, Oxford, Sydney, Vancouver, Paris, Aveiro, Florence, Kyoto, Sydney, Adelaide, and Cambridge, and recitals in London, Boston, New York, Oxford, Rome, Dublin, Graz, Bonn, Amherst, and Philadelphia. Artistic and academic affiliations include ENO; Oxford Literary Festival; ROH; Snape Maltings; University of Oxford; The International Center for American Music; Università degli Studi di Firenze; Oxford International Song Festival; St James Piccadilly; BBC; The University of Adelaide, and The Orpheus Instituut.
Nicole currently holds the positions of Assistant Professor (Academic-Music) at Coventry University; Artistic Director of The Panizza Dynasty Project, and Performing Emily Dickinson; Creative Advisor for The International Center for American Music (ICAMus), and Creative Curator for the Women’s Song Forum.