Love of Music

Week of June 1, 2024

Enjoy Performances and Classes with Korean-American composer, pianist, and YouTuber Nahre Sol:

Genius Breakdown: Inside the Minds of the Greatest Composers
A class that dives into the beautiful details of the classical music that we love, and how famous composers create their style.

How to Listen to Classical Music: A Beginner’s Guide
A class on how to find music that resonates with us within the vast repertoire of classical music, and connect with our emotions while doing so.

 

Nahre Sol is best known for her YouTube channel, with around 619,000 subscribers as of July 2023, and as being co-host of the PBS Digital Studios show “Sound Field”. She has also been a guest host of NPR’s Performance Today, created a video for Wired magazine, appeared as a guest on the online channel Physics Girl, and collaborated with other composers and musicians such as David Bruce, Andrew Huang, Adam Neely, L.A. Buckner, Tantacrul, and Ben Levin. She was nominated in the category Best YouTube Musician in the 12th Annual Shorty Awards in 2020.  The blog Pianote featured her YouTube channel in 2021 as #1 on their list of top YouTube pianists.

As a composer, Nahre Sol has had works commissioned by the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and her music was used in the film The Boss Baby: Family Business. In 2021, she released a digital album called Alice in Wonderland. In June 2023, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg announced Nahre Sol as its first-ever ‘Creator in Residence’ for the 2023-2024 season.

Nahre Sol received her Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from the Juilliard School in 2013, studying with Matti Raekallio. In 2015 she earned her Artist Diploma from The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada, studying with John O’Conor.