Nardo Poy

Nardo Poy, viola, has been a member of the world-renowned Orpheus Chamber Orchestra since 1978 and has been featured as soloist in the United States, Europe and Japan with Orpheus, the North Carolina Symphony, the Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, the American Symphony Orchestra and the Kansas City Camerata. For 33 years Mr. Poy had been an Associate Musician with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and is a member of The Lighthouse Chamber Players. He has performed with The Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Perspectives Ensemble and many others.

He can be heard on over 70 recordings with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra as well as numerous chamber music recordings with the Perspectives Ensemble, the Harmonie Ensemble, the Broyhill Chamber Ensemble, Lighthouse Chamber Players and others. He has held the principal viola position in many orchestras, including the Opera Company of Philadelphia, the Santa Fe Opera, the Philharmonia Orchestra of Philadelphia, the American Symphony Orchestra and the Grand Teton Music Festival orchestra. Mr. Poy was an Artist-in-Residence at SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music with the Carnegie String Quartet and is currently teaching chamber music at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as well as at the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Vermont. He has given master classes at Juilliard, Manhattan School of Music, Penn State University, Boston University, Yong Sieuw Toh Conservatory, and University of Massachusetts, among others.