Nancy Scimone

Gifted Virginia songstress Nancy Scimone is a multi-talented and seasoned vocalist. A stunning and winsome beauty, she was raised in Westchester, New York and educated at American University in Washington, DC with further studies at Berklee College of Music in Boston. She has graced many stages from New York to the Midwest and north to Canada. She is at home performing as a soloist or with trio, quartet, big band or full orchestra.

Her career as a jazz vocalist is enriched and deepened by her extensive performing experience in theatre, opera and inspirational music. She brings it all home in spirited jazz and pop performances with such favorites as the nostalgic “They Can’t Take That Away,” to the slinky “Peel Me a Grape,” to the intriguing “Corcovado.”

Whether she’s playing an intimate club or an enormous concert hall, she fills the space with grace and humor, engaging each audience member with her warm and enveloping presence. Great pipes, unerring pitch and an impressive three-octave range characterize her extraordinary voice.

Nancy Scimone has performed jazz and pop programs in Washington, DC and surrounding states. She has performed at such establishments as the Carlyle Club, Colonel Brook’s Tavern, 49 West, Columbia Station, Twins Jazz, and the Potomac River Jazz Club and repeatedly for Smithsonian National Zoo gala fundraisers. Such fine musicians as guitarists Steve Herberman and John Sessums, bassists Victor Dvoskin and Stan Hamrick and pianists Wade Beach, Bob Smith and John Eaton, accompany her.

She has delighted audiences in performances of musicals, theatre and classical faire. At Lisner Auditorium, she performed a solo concert of all- Bernstein songs including “Glitter and be Gay,” his comic tour de force aria for coloratura soprano from Candide as well as the comic culinary song cycle, “La Bonne Cuisine.” She also performed in the annual pops concert at the Bar Harbor Music Festival in Maine.

She sings in English, French and Italian. She has sung French chanson accompanied by Pierre Vallet (Metropolitan and Paris Operas). Her orchestral appearances include Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins and Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’Eté with the Mount Vernon Orchestra. She performed Verdi’s “Sempre Libera” and selections from Jerome Kern’s Showboat with the Yonkers New York Philharmonic. She played Olga in The Merry Widow at the Kennedy Center with the Washington Opera. The Washington Area Music Association (WAMA) has nominated her for two awards.

Over 12,000 units of Scimone’s popular inspirational recordings have been sold and are heard world wide on radio.

She has performed sacred music including her own compositions at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, at the John Paul II Cultural Center and appeared in churches and auditoriums in many American cities. She has performed works by Mozart, Bach, Handel, Verdi and Hindemith and sings Gregorian chant. She wrote, and toured for three years, in a one-woman show, Messenger of Mercy, based on the life of Polish Saint Faustina. Show less