Nathália Kato Giordano

Nathália Kato Giordano is a Brazil-born pianist whose passion spans opera, chamber music, and teaching. Based in Pittsburgh since Fall of 2022, Dr. Kato has been serving as an Adjunct Faculty at Duquesne University where she works closely with the Duquesne choirs, as a vocal coach, and music director of Opera Workshop. Prior to this appointment, she served as a full-time staff pianist at the University of Wyoming from 2020-2022.

Before moving to the United States, she was a répétiteur for three seasons at Theatro São Pedro, an opera house in São Paulo in her home country. An avid collaborative pianist, Nathália has been involved in groundbreaking and thought-provoking projects throughout the years. Alongside her husband violinist Andrew Giordano, they have formed Duo Pragma and often perform rarely-heard repertoire by both well-known and historically marginalized composers. In November 2021, she and flutist Kaleb Chesnic made their debut album together recording Chesnic’s own transcriptions for flute and piano of the three violin sonatas of Edvard Grieg, which was released on MSR Classics. Further projects include collaborations with the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, Chamber Music Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Opera and Carnegie Mellon Opera. She has also shared her expertise as a master class clinician and competition adjudicator.

Nathália holds Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in Collaborative Piano from the University of Colorado Boulder and has maintained a close professional relationship with her alma mater, returning to Boulder every summer since 2019 to be on the artistic team of CU New Opera Workshop. She has been mainly involved as music director of the Composer Fellows’ Initiative, which provides her with the opportunity to work with distinguished living composers such as Jake Heggie, Tom Cipullo, and Mark Adamo.

• D.M.A., University of Colorado Boulder
• M.M., University of Colorado Boulder
• M.M., Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil)
• B.M., Universidade do Estado do Pará (Brazil)

• Collaborative Piano
• Vocal Coach
• Opera
• Chamber Music