Role: Responsible for shaping and guiding the organization’s artistic vision and direction.
Nasar, a drummer, is the founder, leader and driving force of SUPERNOVA® and his performing ensembles. Each band configuration performs music from the threshold of Jazz to beyond space and time, through traditional African rhythms, bebop, fusion, and free form. Abadey’s performance credits include many of the Jazz greats of today and yesterday including but not limited to Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, and Pharoah Sanders and has recorded and/or performed with many national artists throughout his career. Mr. Abadey was selected for various honors and awards for merit and composition, and has served as a Music Panelist for DC, Commission on the Arts and Humanities; National Endowment for the Arts, and the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, respectively. Selected honors are from the DC Jazz Festival which presented Nasar Abadey with a Lifetime Achievement award at the Kennedy Center; the UBC organization presented Mr. Abadey with the John Coltrane Black Classical Music, Living Legends in Music and Culture Award. The Capital Hill Jazz Foundation honored him with the Jazz Leadership and Service Award; and the DC Legendary Musicians awarded him with the Community Service Award. Nasar Abadey is currently a Professor in the Jazz Studies Department of the Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.