{"id":842,"date":"2022-03-30T15:21:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T19:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=842"},"modified":"2026-07-10T13:57:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:57:30","slug":"ketty-nez","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/about\/contact-directions\/directory\/ketty-nez\/","title":{"rendered":"Ketty Nez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ketty Nez<\/strong> joined the composition and theory department at the Boston University School of Music in 2005, after teaching for two years at the University of Iowa. <em>Listen to a Wonder Never Heard Before!<\/em>, her portrait album as composer\/pianist, was released in 2010 by Albany Records. Her folk opera, <em>The Fiddler and the Old Woman of Rumelia<\/em>, was premiered in a staged version in May 2012, by Juventas New Music Ensemble. Her piano concerto <em>thresholds<\/em>, performed by Ketty and the Boston University Wind Ensemble, was released in July 2013 by Ravello Records. BUWE also recorded <em>four scenes for Juliet<\/em>, released February 2019 by Summit Records. Her albums of chamber music with Albany Records also include <em>double images<\/em> (2020), <em>far sight sun light<\/em> (2023), <em>through the light<\/em> (2025), and <em>only the path remains<\/em> (2026). During the fall term of 2021, Ketty was a guest teacher at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary, as a Fulbright scholar. In 2025, Ketty co-founded the BiND Ensemble (with saxophonist Jennifer Bill and violist Daniel Dona), and Trio Perruches (with violinist Robyn Julyan and cellist David Short).<\/p>\n<p>Ketty completed, in 2002-3, a residence of several months at the Ecole Nationale de Musique in Montbeliard, France, prior to the premiere of her chamber opera <em>An Opera in Devolution: Drama in 540 Seconds<\/em>, at the 2003 Seventh Festival A*Devantgarde in Munich. In 2001, she spent several months as visiting composer\/scholar at Stanford University&#8217;s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), and in 1998 participated in the year-long computer music course at the Institute de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique\/Musique (IRCAM). Before computer music studies, Ketty worked for two years with Louis Andriessen in Amsterdam, and co-founded the international contemporary music collective Concerten Tot and Met. She spent a year studying with composer Michio Mamiya in Tokyo before her graduate work, and her music has been performed in festivals in Europe, North America, and Asia. Ketty holds a Ph.D. in composition from the University of California at Berkeley, a master&#8217;s degree in composition from the Eastman School of Music, a bachelor&#8217;s degree in piano performance from the Curtis Institute of Music, and a bachelor&#8217;s degree in psychology from Bryn Mawr College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14125,"template":"","bu_progs_degree-option":[],"dicipline":[125],"school":[133],"unit":[],"program":[157],"position":[123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14125"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131716,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/842\/revisions\/131716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bu_progs_degree-option","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_progs_degree-option?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"dicipline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dicipline?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"unit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"position","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/position?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}