Melody Fader
Pianist Melody Fader enjoys a busy career as a soloist, chamber musician, vocal and dance accompanist, and interdisciplinary collaborative artist in New York City. Ms. Fader has performed throughout the United States as a soloist and chamber musician, and in such New York venues as Alice Tully Hall, The Joyce Theater, The New York Times Center, and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. Her performances in those venues have been called “sumptuous” and “stirring,” noting she “plays with elegance” (The New York Times), and “masterful” (Pointe Magazine).
Her newest project, Melody and Company Chamber Series, began in 2015 and continues to thrive, having won grants from the Queens Council on the Arts and the Puffin Foundation, and performing multiple times each year.
Her Trio, the Fader-Gendron-Haas Trio performed at the Shandelee Music festival in 2022.
Ms. Fader is the resident pianist with New Chamber Ballet, performing regularly at Mark Morris Dance Center, and has appeared with many dance companies including Dance Theatre of Harlem, Columbia Ballet Collaborative,Buglisi Dance Theater, FJK Dance and New York Theater Ballet, at dance venues including the Miller Theater, the Joyce Theater and St. Mark’s Church and New York Live Arts.. She has also toured the country as the Company Pianist for the Dance Theatre of Harlem.
In 2019, Fader performed Bach for a ballet commissioned for Stars of American Ballet, set on New York City Ballet Principal Dancers Teresa Reichlen and Russell Janzen, at the Dance Against Cancer event at Lincoln Center and the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe. Other performances include a U.S. embassy sponsored recital tour of Chile with Soprano Elisa Cordova and chamber music concerts presented by the Chopin Foundation in Florida.
Fader has performed internationally in Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, England, Canada, Korea and Chile and at the Spoleto Festival in Italy, Aspen Music Festival, Chautauqua, International Festival Institute at Round Top, and the Scotia Festival of Music. She is a Coleman Chamber Ensemble competition prizewinner, and an Aspen Concerto competition prizewinner, and was a concerto soloist with the Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestra as well as the Aspen Conductor’s Orchestra.
Ms. Fader earned her Master’s Degree in Music in Collaborative Piano at the Juilliard School, where she studied with Margo Garrett. She has been selected to perform numerous times in Alice Tully Hall’s “Wednesdays at 1”, and “Evening of Chamber Music” series, as well as at the Juilliard Vocal Honors recital and also performed at the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, England.
Before working on her advanced degree, Fader was a resident artist at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. While earning her Bachelor’s Degree in Music in Piano Performance from the Eastman School of Music, she performed concertos with student orchestras, played solorecitals, and appeared numerous times on Buffalo Public Radio’s “Opus Classics Live” broadcast series.
Ms. Fader currently serves on the faculty of the Greenwich House Music School in NYC. She has also worked as a staff accompanist at Juilliard, Mannes and The San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Bowdoin International Music Festival and Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School and Camp, and held a collaborative piano internship at the Banff Centre.
