Conductor Nadya Potemkina currently serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Music at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT where she leads the University Orchestra and Concert Choir and teaches courses in instrumental conducting, music theory, and orchestral literature. She is also the board member and the music director of Connecticut FluteFest and the Ad Hoc Bach Collective, both performance and community engagement initiatives. Nadya remains active as a violist and welcomes every opportunity to play chamber music with her colleagues and friends and to perform new works, and music by underrepresented composers. 

Nadya Potemkina enjoys numerous guest-conducting, adjudicating, and workshop engagements and opportunities with regional, community, and youth orchestras, festivals, and competitions. Prior to her arrival in Connecticut in 2013, Nadya served as an assistant conductor of The University of Memphis Orchestras, as the music director of Mid-South Young People’s Orchestras in Memphis, TN, and was a founding conductor of Memphis Occasional Orchestra, an all-volunteer community outreach ensemble. Nadya Potemkina holds degrees in viola performance and pedagogy, and choral and instrumental conducting from Herzen State Pedagogical University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), The University of Northern Iowa, Ball State University (IN), and The University of Memphis (TN).