Nadine B. Silverman (she/her/hers)

Director of Research

Nadine B. Silverman is a passionate, multi-disciplinary graduate student committed to furthering equity in the arts. She is currently pursuing two master’s degrees at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts in clarinet performance and music theory. She holds a Bachelor of Music in music theory and composition from West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

As a performer, teacher, and analyst, Nadine strives to elevate music by historically marginalized composers and further equity and accessibility in music pedagogy. She presented her research on Amy Beach in 2019 at West Chester University. In 2021, she presented her research on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor at the Midwest Music Research Collective conference at the University of Kansas and the THEMUS graduate conference at Temple University. Nadine’s research aims to examine the history of marginalization in the musical canon and remedy some of its shortcomings.

Nadine’s compositions have been featured by the Pennsylvania Chamber Winds, the West Chester University Tuba–Euphonium Ensemble, the Nimbus Clarinet Quartet, and the Arcanum Flute Quartet. She was commissioned to write works for wind band for the Albion University Wind Ensemble and the Upper Dublin High School Concert Band, and she has also written for the Jasper String Quartet and the West Chester University Symphony Orchestra (WCUSO). As the New Music Director of WCU’s New Music Society, Nadine created an annual event called the Collaborative New Music Concert. This event provides student composers and performers with the opportunity to create, rehearse, and perform a series of new works for chamber ensembles. She has studied composition with Dr. Amanda Harberg, Dr. Adam Silverman, Dr. Robert Maggio, Dr. Jacob Cooper, and Dr. Sabrina Clarke.

As a clarinetist, Nadine has performed in China, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Switzerland with various ensembles. She has performed with the Pennsylvania Chamber Winds, Nimbus Clarinet Quartet, and the Main Line Symphony Orchestra. During her two-year tenure as principal clarinetist of the WCUSO and the bass clarinetist of the WCU Wind Ensemble, she performed at Carnegie Hall in New York and at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. Nadine has been playing the clarinet since she was five years old, and has studied with Dr. Maureen Hurd, Mr. Charles Salinger, Dr. Karen Dannessa, and Dr. Caroline Hartig.