NathanaelFilippelli

Having started the piano at age 5, pianist Dr. Nathanael Filippelli has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in various venues including Music Festival Palouse and the Young Artists Concert Series at the Amalfi Festival. He was a finalist at the 2016 Semper Music International Competition in Völs am Schlern, Italy. As a member of the Ozarka Piano Trio with cellist Steuart Pincombe and violinist Jody Killingsworth, he performed throughout the Midwest and Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Filippelli performed with violinist Andrew Gentzsch as the Gentzsch-Filippelli Duo, and with trumpeter Dr. George Dougherty IV of Toccoa Falls College as the Paradox Duo. He has performed with conductors Steven Byess (formerly of the Detroit Symphony) and Piotr Sułkowski, and with Dr. David Erb and cellist Dr. Cole Tutino of New Saint Andrews College. Dr. Filippelli has taught master classes at Evangel University and Eastern Mennonite University, and performed in master classes with Enrico Elisi, Vakhtang Kodanashvili, Juan Pablo Andrade, Anatoly Zatin, Georgy Saradjian, Nicholas Phillips, Logan Skelton, and Gleb Ivanov. He gave the world premiere of Greek composer Alexandros Spyrou's Ατάκτως Ερριμμένα (Disorderly Cast) at the Midwest Composers' Symposium. His scholarly interests trace the development of polyphonic thinking from its medieval theoretical foundations in Franco of Cologne through the Renaissance Franco-Flemish School to the early-modernist counterpoint of Ildebrando Pizzetti, Ferruccio Busoni, and the Second Viennese School.

Born in Cortland, New York, Dr. Filippelli earned his Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance at Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri where he studied piano with Linda Ligate, music theory with Michael Kolstad, theory and orchestration with John Akins, and violin with Larry Dissmore. He studied piano with Peter Collins at Missouri State University where he did his Masters in Piano Performance and held a Graduate Assistantship. He completed a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance and Pedagogy at the University of Iowa, where he held a piano Teaching Assistantship and a choral accompanist Teaching Assistantship in the School of Music. During his doctoral study at Iowa, he studied piano with concert pianist Ksenia Nosikova, piano pedagogy with Alan Huckleberry, piano literature with Réne Lecuona, choral conducting with Timothy Stalter, music theory with Michael Eckert, Matthew Arndt, and Zachary Stanton, Renaissance musicology and Renaissance notation with Christine Getz, and nineteenth-century music with Marian Wilson Kimber. His other piano teachers have included Edmund Battersby, Gregory Morris, Myrtle Hart, Janet Radmore, John Ravert, David Fairbanks, and Sister Maurita Murnaghan, SSJ. Dr. Filippelli holds the Kodály Music Education Certificate, Levels I–III from the Chenaniah Summer Music Institute at the New Saint Andrews College Conservatory of Music. He lives in Toledo, Ohio, with his wife Ashley and their five children, and attends Christ the Word Church.