Nancy Sicsic

Biography

Passion, imagination and a natural ease are qualities that pianist and organist Nancy Sicsic brings to her playing and her audiences. Ms. Sicsic is a member of the Graduate Music Faculty at the University of Toronto, where she teaches courses in piano and the Alexander Technique for musicians. Her mission is helping musicians of any age to be fully engaged, aware and empowered and able to achieve their potential at the instrument with ease and fluidity. She is a certified Alexander teacher and one of the few performing pianists in the country qualified to teach the Alexander Technique, practiced worldwide and which helps artists, musicians and dancers in particular to maximize their potential by eradicating unnecessary muscular effort and tension in their movement.

Ms. Sicsic’s career spans thirty years of teaching music and piano in every kind of academic setting. She is extremely active as a professor, enthusiastic studio piano teacher, and promoter of wellness for musicians.

Nancy received a Masters degree in Piano Performance from the prestigious Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Her mentor’s include John Perry, H. Max Smith, Rodney Reynerson, and Clyde Holloway.  

As well, Nancy is the Director of Music and organist at Westminster United Church in Orangeville, Ontario where she leads the Celebration Choir. She has private piano studios in Toronto and Orangeville, and is accompanist for the Achill Choral Society and the Amaranth Chamber Choir. She is a dynamic clinician who gives workshops on piano teaching and the Alexander Technique for musicians, and plays throughout the area and in the United States as a performer, collaborator and accompanist. Nancy is the Artistic Director of the popular concert series, “The Sounds of Westminster” that showcases local artists and musicians and covers a wide variety of classical and contemporary music in thematic settings.