Nanci Belmont

Praised as “a lyrical soloist” with “beautiful playing in both tone and technique” by the New York Concert Review, bassoonist Nanci Belmont is a dynamic performer and educator currently serving as the Assistant Professor of Bassoon at Louisiana State University. An engaging soloist, Nanci is a Performing Artist for Leitzinger Bassoons and Second Prize winner of the 2016 Fernand Gillet-Hugo Fox Competition of the International Double Reed Society. She is driven by a desire to cultivate meaningful relationships and relevant musical experiences and is frequently invited to perform as a soloist and chamber musician on festivals and series throughout the United States. Nanci is a member of The City of Tomorrow, an experimental wind quintet dedicated to the performance and expansion of contemporary repertoire and is also active in the commissioning of new works for bassoon. In other contemporary music ventures, Nanci has collaborated with groups such as Talea ensemble International Contemporary Ensemble, Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, and Alarm Will Sound. As an orchestral musician, she has performed with groups such as the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, New York City Ballet Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic, and Charleston Symphony. In her role as an educator, Nanci strives to cultivate curious, lifelong learners in music. She has been invited to present clinics and master classes at a variety of institutions across the country and is also on faculty at the  Mostly Modern Festival and a coach for the Lucerne Festival Academy.