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Nuiko Wadden, harp

In addition to her work with janus, Nuiko holds the principal harp position in both the Pittsburgh Opera and Ballet Orchestras and with the Des Moines Metro Opera. She is also a member of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE).

Ms. Wadden has been a prizewinner in numerous competitions including the 2005 Minnesota Orchestra Competition (WAMSO). She has been recognized in the Ann Adams, ASTA, American Harp Society, and Houston Tuesday Music Club competitions. As a soloist she appeared with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Skokie Valley Symphony and the Shepherd School Chamber Orchestra.

An avid proponent of contemporary music, Ms. Wadden performs regularly with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), an organization devoted to the performance of works by young composers. In Oberlin, she was active as a member of the Contemporary Music Ensemble, and was a member of the Chimera Trio, which performed only premiers of student works. She continued this interest in Houston performing with Musiqa, a local composers’ collective, and Syzygy, Rice University’s contemporary music series. Over the span of her career, she has performed world premiers of both solo and chamber works by Arascimowicz, Jalbert, Al-Zand, and John Luther Adams as well as an uncountable number of orchestral works.

Originally from Chicago, she has appeared in a number of different chamber series’ there, including, but not limited to, the Orpheus Young Artists series, and a handful of times at the Music in the Loft chamber series. She has appeared many times on Chicago’s classical musical station, WFMT, as well as KUHF in Houston and WQXR New York as part of the Young Artists’ Showcase.

Ms. Wadden is currently dual-citied, performing and living in both Pittsburgh and New York. Interested in maintaining an active orchestral career, she acts as a substitute harpist for the Milwaukee, Minnesota, Houston and Pittsburgh Symphonies.