Biography
Avery Nielsen, an award-winning pianist and lifelong educator, has been performing and teaching piano for almost 20 years. He has performed in multiple concert halls across the US and Europe, and has taught students in Washington DC as well as in Rome, Italy. Avery is a graduate of the world-renowned Indiana University Jacobs School of Music with majors in classical piano and theoretical physics. His former teachers include Reiko Neriki, Evelyne Brancart, and Arnaldo Cohen at Indiana University, Antoinette Van Zabner at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria) and Yonghee Moon at Peabody Conservatory. Avery is a native of Washington, DC and a graduate of DC’s premier arts high school, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, where he studied piano under Dr. Haewon Moon and was valedictorian of his graduating class.
A lover of learning and teaching and a believer in a well-balanced life, Avery has taught numerous subjects in addition to piano at schools in Italy and in DC, from music and musical theater to philosophy courses on happiness, ethics, and the theory of knowledge, to math courses such as AP Calculus and IB High Level mathematics. For a number of years, Avery also was a yoga teacher, having studied hatha yoga and yoga philosophy at the Himalayan Institute, which heavily influenced his approach to piano with an understanding of anatomy and the movement of the body as well as an understanding of the effective use of the mind for learning and developing.
A lover of learning and teaching and a believer in a well-balanced life, Avery has taught numerous subjects in addition to piano at schools in Italy and in DC, from music and musical theater to philosophy courses on happiness, ethics, and the theory of knowledge, to math courses such as AP Calculus and IB High Level mathematics. For a number of years, Avery also was a yoga teacher, having studied hatha yoga and yoga philosophy at the Himalayan Institute, which heavily influenced his approach to piano with an understanding of anatomy and the movement of the body as well as an understanding of the effective use of the mind for learning and developing.