Nancy Torrente is honored to be the conductor and music director of the Cape Community Orchestra since her appointment in December 2021. Her work with the CCO includes programming and conducting performances, developing relationships with the community, and furthering the orchestra’s goal of providing a musical home to play and hear accessible orchestral music for the greater Cape Cod community.

Ms. Torrente holds performance degrees from Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts and Queens College. In addition to her performance career, she is an active conductor and clinician. Nancy has been a featured string clinician presenting workshops at Villanova University,  the NJ String Teachers Association, and the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association. Before moving to Cape Cod, she was the Orchestra Director in the Yorktown Central Schools, NY, for 22 years leading the school’s orchestras, consistently earning the highest ratings at national and international music festivals. Her past teaching experiences include starting the orchestra program at St Francis Prep HS in Queens, NY, and piloting the first cello classes in the East Harlem, NY, string program made famous by the film “Music of the Heart.”

Nancy leads an active and varied professional life as a cellist. She has played and recorded music from Latin and jazz to classical. Nancy can be heard playing duets with jazz saxophonist David Liebman on his albums “A Walk in the Clouds” and “Dedications.” An avid chamber music player, she performs yearly in Wausau, Wisconsin’s ‘South Beach Up North Chamber Music Festival.’  She has been a member of the Orquesta Philharmónica de Caracas (Venezuela), Opera Barga (Italy), and the Hudson Valley Philharmonic (NY). Nancy is the principal cellist with the Taconic Opera Company (NY) and plays numerous freelance performances across NY and Massachusetts.