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NANCIANNE PARELLA - ORGANIST: Acclaimed largely for her vast experience as an Organist, Pedagogue and Performer, holds distinctions in the instrumental and Choral music genre –both secular and sacred. Her understanding and practice at every educational and performing level positions her uniquely.

In association with major orchestras as a touring artist, her know-how rightly attests to the phrase: “totally knowledgable and proficient”. Church, Concert, Teaching venues all have validated her competence.

Presently,Ms. Parrella is Associate Organist of the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, where she works closely with director Kent Tritle in the Church's extensive liturgical music program and is featured frequently on the concert series, Sacred Music in a Sacred Space.

Her signature Organ Plus! recitals, which demonstrate the versatility of the organ with various combinations of instruments, have become audience favorites. In addition to performances at St. Ignatius Loyola, she has brought Organ Plus! to many other venues. Her 2011 Organ performances include "Concerts at One". Notable was her May performance at the Organ Of Trinity Church, Wall Street which is known for their Music and The Arts Series.

Continuing her active performance career, in the spring of 2009, she was one of two organists with the New York Philharmonic for Music Director Lorin Maazel's farewell concerts of the Benjamin Britten War Requiem.

Among America's preeminent choral accompanists, Ms. Parrella is an Emeritus Faculty member of Westminster Choir College of Rider University, Princeton, NJ, where she was accompanist and assistant director of the famed Westminster Choir and Symphonic Choir, directed by Joseph Flummerfelt.

Ms. Parrella was long associated with America's pioneering choral conductor, Robert Shaw, with whom she toured and recorded in the U.S., France, and Brazil. She has also collaborated with noted conductors: Kurt Masur, Charles Dutoit, Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic; Wolfgang Sawallisch and The Philadelphia Orchestra; Zdenek Macal and Neeme Järvi and the New Jersey Symphony; and James Bagwell and Louis Langreé in New York's Mostly Mozart Festival.