Playing with Words
"Poetry is music written for the human voice" — Maya Angelou
“Everyone loved [Nicole’s performance]… someone even stopped me on the subway after to tell me how much they enjoyed it!”
— Erica Perez, Super Awesome Friends marketing, NY
As seen in Broadway World:
“Visionary artist Nicole Brancato connects poetry, piano, and painting in an enchanting and immersive concert experience…”
“Brancato improvise[s] at the piano in real time while narrating visionary poetry... Moving seamlessly through styles from impressionism to jazz and beyond, Brancato dives into the piano, and its strings, as she explores the depths of each poem and fuses sound, sight, and storytelling.”
Nicole performing two sold-out shows at the premiere of Playing with Words at Monet’s Garden: The Immersive Experience.
Nicole Brancato perform’s bound/less, combining poetry by Frederio Garcia Lorca with her own composition and improvisation.
Playing with Words premiered at the "stunningly beautiful" (NBC) Monet's Garden: The Immersive Experience in two sold-out shows in New York City. Moving seamlessly through styles from impressionism to jazz and beyond, this piano-meets-poetry program fuses fascinating piano techniques and improvisation with storytelling and poetry. Using the works of poets like Maya Angelou, Robert Frost, and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore as frameworks of improvisation, Nicole narrates the vivid poems aloud while improvising in real time, creating a shared electric and connective energy with audiences.