Chamber Music

Nella performs onstage with chamber music groups, as well as playing with various combinations for private bookings. Among the chamber music groups she has performed with are the Atlanta Chamber Players, Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet, Thamyris, Atlanta Virtuosi, and Music da Camera. As a member of the flute and harp duo, Kokopelli, she regularly presented concerts in Atlanta and throughout the Southeast.

Nella can provide a number of combinations for your engagement.

A good representation of Ms Rigell's performing repertoire can be found on the repertoire page, along with sound samples.

Orchestral Harp

Nella Rigell has enjoyed an active career as an orchestral harpist, chamber musician, recording artist, and teacher, performing in concert halls from Carnegie Hall to the Grand Ole Opry. As principal harpist with the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra for twenty-seven years, her orchestral experience also includes having played second harp with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and principal harp with the Atlanta Opera Orchestra for eleven years.
Winner of the 1979 Atlanta Chamber Orchestra Concerto Competition, Ms. Rigell has performed with such diverse orchestras as the Theater of the Stars, Chattanooga, Savannah, Dekalb, and Cobb Symphony Orchestras, Spoleto Festival, Atlanta Lyric Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra, Gwinnett Philharmonic, Mississippi Symphony, Atlanta Pops Orchestra, Georgia Sinfonia, Agnes Scott Orchestra, the North Georgia Symphony, as well as other regional orchestras.

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