Nathália Kato Giordano

Since August 2022, pianist Nathália Kato Giordano has been based in Pittsburgh, PA, where she is highly sought after for her expertise in collaborative piano. Dr. Kato is an Adjunct Professor of Voice at Duquesne University, where she serves as vocal coach and music director of Opera Workshop. Prior to this appointment, she served as staff pianist at the University of Wyoming from 2020–2022.

Nathália has extensive experience in orchestral, operatic, and chamber music activities. Her repertoire list consists of numerous instrumental, chamber, and vocal works, including 25 complete operas. Before moving to the United States, she served as a répétiteur for three seasons at Theatro São Pedro, an opera house in São Paulo in her home country of Brazil. An avid collaborative pianist, Nathália has been involved in groundbreaking and thought-provoking projects throughout the years. Alongside her husband violinist Andrew Giordano, they have formed Duo Pragma and often perform rarely-heard repertoire by both well-known and historically marginalized composers. In November 2021, she and flutist Kaleb Chesnic made their debut album together recording Chesnic’s own transcriptions for flute and piano of the three violin sonatas of Edvard Grieg, which was released on MSR Classics. Further recent projects include collaborations with the Carnegie Mellon Opera, Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, and Chamber Music Pittsburgh.

Nathália received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in collaborative piano from the University of Colorado Boulder, studying with Margaret McDonald and Alexandra Nguyen. From 2015 to 2020, she held a teaching assistantship through which she served as a rehearsal and orchestral pianist, harpsichordist, and coach for Eklund Opera under the guidance of maestro Nicholas Carthy. Nathália has maintained a close professional relationship with CU Boulder College of Music and returns to Boulder, CO every summer since 2019 to be on the artistic team of the CU New Opera Workshop. She has been mainly involved as music director of the Composer Fellows’ Initiative (CFI), which provides her with the opportunity to work with distinguished American composers such as Tom Cipullo and Jake Heggie.

• D.M.A., University of Colorado Boulder
• M.M., University of Colorado Boulder
• M.M., Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil)
• B.M., Universidade do Estado do Pará (Brazil)

• Opera
• Art song
• Vocal coaching