Nico Olarte-Hayes: Recipient of the Leonore Annenberg Arts Fellowship, cellist and conductor Nico Olarte-Hayes has given solo recitals at Lincoln Center and the Neue Galerie in New York City, in Memphis’ Artists Ascending Series and New York’s Young Musician’s Forum, and throughout the Netherlands and Japan. As conductor, Nico is the recent recipient of a Sir Georg Solti Foundation Career Assistance Award and winner of the Vincent C. LaGuardia Conducting Competition. He has conducted the New York City Ballet, New World Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and Salzburg Chamber Soloists, among many others, and served as Music Director of New York’s IconoClassic Opera and Harvard’s Dunster House Opera.
