Founded by composer/cellist duo Nick DiBerardino and Zach Mowitz, Nodality Music is a non-profit arts organization that cultivates direct links between artists, audiences, and broader culture with narrative-driven musical experiences. We create, commission, and perform new music, emphasizing human stories & connections, education, and social advocacy.
Latest Updates
New Videos!
Our new digital series in partnership Guarneri Hall is coming out this summer! Please enjoy this video of Zach performing the central movement of Nick’s Oracle in Chicago. To see the rest of the piece, other musical works that inspired Nick, and profiles on us as they come out in the following weeks, check out this playlist!
Our Mission
The concept of Nodality is the convergence of separate paths on one connecting point.
We create and explore networks of connections between art and artists, musicians and audiences, and music and broader culture in a world searching for more nodality.
Nodality Music was founded by cellist Zachary Mowitz and composer Nick DiBerardino as a platform for the presentation of narrative-driven concerts in non-traditional spaces. Our events feature a story-telling format that connects people through music and makes new music accessible to people across broad cultural contexts. We build bridges between artists and audiences through shared experiences of the connection between music and the world at large. We harness this connection to create unique projects that deliver impactful messages around social causes.
Our organization presents a wide variety of programs that highlight the stories behind meaningful art, that connect music to broader culture, and that work towards real social impact. These include live interactive concerts, large-scale commissioning projects, digital releases, and interdisciplinary collaborations.
Nodality Music is pioneering a new model for collaborative performance, where performer and composer take equal part in delivering musical experiences. We stimulate dialogue through interactive demonstrations with listeners that illuminate the music’s underlying creative forces and highlight the intersections between art and modern-day life. Along the way, we break down the walls between performer, composer, and audience, fostering greater human connection in classical music experiences.
About the duo
A native of Princeton, NJ, Zachary Mowitz made his solo debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in July 2018. An artist who wears many hats, Zach has appeared as Guest Principal Cello for the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, founded ensemble132 and Trio St. Bernard – the 2018 Gold Prize winner of the Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition – and performed in halls and festivals throughout the world. These appearances include Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium, Alice Tully Hall, Berlin Konzerthaus, Salzburg Mozarteum, Jupiter Chamber Players, and Music from Angel Fire.
In 2018, he graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Carter Brey and Peter Wiley. He also studied with Gary Hoffman at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel and Richard Lester at the Royal College of Music in London. In 2022-23, he was a Community Artist Fellow at the Curtis Institute, where he he led a climate justice education program in the Philadelphia school district and served people living with dementia in partnership with Penn Memory.
Zach was recently awarded First Prize in the first World Bach Competition and is currently an Associated Artist at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel. In the summers of 2022-2023, Zach attended the Marlboro Music Festival. In his spare time, Zach enjoys exploring the endless world of podcasts and tossing a frisbee.
Composer Nick DiBerardino is noted for creating "richly textured, multilayered" sound worlds (Minnesota Star Tribune) that tell fantastical tales. He has written music about everything from failed flying machines and particle physics to Walt Whitman and tall glasses of beet juice.
A Rhodes Scholar, Nick has received commissions from numerous artists and institutions, including Symphony Tacoma, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the New College Choir, arx duo, Sandbox Percussion, The Brass Project, Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, and Music From Angel Fire.
Nick founded England's first laptop orchestra, OxLOrk, and has designed several collaborative composition initiatives, including a children's opera composed with students at Girard College and a workshop series for people living with Alzheimer's disease, created in partnership with the Penn Memory Center.
Nick is the Chair of Composition Studies and Dean at the Curtis Institute of Music. He holds composition degrees from Princeton, Oxford, Yale, and Curtis.
You can watch video profiles and read more about Nick and Zach’s story in our About section.
