New York-based violist Nadia Sirota is best known as an interpreter of new music, having commissioned and premiered dozens of works by composers and songwriters including Marcos Balter, Bryce Dessner, Judd Greenstein, Nico Muhly, Valgeir Siguršsson, and Ryan Streber. She received her undergraduate and Master's degrees from the Juilliard School, where she performed as co-founder of the AXIOM ensemble, initiated the Castleman/Amory/Huang studio's New Music Project, and created the Juilliard Plays Juilliard program for student composers and performers.

After winning the top prize in Juilliard's 2005 concerto competition, Nadia performed Hindemith's Der Schwanendreher with conductor Marin Alsop and the Juilliard Orchestra in Alice Tully Hall, and she has also collaborated as soloist and chamber musician with such artists as Joseph Kalichstein, Itzhak Perlman, and the Silk Road Ensemble. Nadia is currently a member of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) and was a founding fellow of the Academy, a program of Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute. She can also be found performing with such groups as Continuum, The Meredith Monk Ensemble, and Alarm Will Sound. In the fall of 2007, Nadia joined the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music for its new Masters Program in Contemporary Music Performance.

She has performed in-studio for NPR's Morning Edition, BBC Radio 3, CBS Morning Edition, and A&E Breakfast with the Arts, and her recording credits include work for MTV2, Neuma, Bedroom Community, the Royal Academy of Music, and 11:11 Records. In the fall of 2008, Nadia will make her solo recording debut with an album on the newly-minted New Amsterdam label, including music by Judd Greenstein, Nico Muhly and Marcos Balter. In addition to playing viola, Nadia also hosts Overnight Music on WNYC, 93.9FM and WNYC.org.

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