Eric Nathan

Works by Eric Nathan (b. 1983) have been performed in the United States and abroad at music festivals including the Aspen Music Festival, Ravinia Festival Steans Institute, Tanglewood, Aldeburgh Music, Shanghai Conservatory New Music Week, and the Composers Now Festival at Symphony Space, among others.

Works by Eric Nathan (b. 1983) have been performed in the United States and abroad at music festivals including the Aspen Music Festival, Ravinia Festival Steans Institute, Tanglewood, Aldeburgh Music, Shanghai Conservatory New Music Week, and the Composers Now Festival at Symphony Space, among others.
Nathan’s music has been presented by orchestras including the American Composers Orchestra, Aspen Concert Orchestra, Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra (South Korea), Omaha Symphony Chamber Orchestra, Cornell Symphony Orchestra, Cornell Festival Chamber Orchestra, Cornell Chamber Orchestra, Juilliard Pre-College Symphony, Yale Symphony Orchestra, and the University of Maryland Repertoire Orchestra; and ensembles including the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Tanglewood New Fromm Players, Britten-Pears Contemporary Performance Ensemble, Damocles Trio, Momenta String Quartet, Mirari Brass Quintet, Yale Brass Trio, Indiana University New Music Ensemble, Purchase College Contemporary Ensemble, Purchase College Percussion Ensemble, Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players, Ohio River Brass Quintet, Boston New Music Initiative, and the Syracuse Society for New Music.
Nathan’s music has been recognized with the ASCAP Foundation Rudolf Nissim Prize, three ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, BMI William Schuman Prize, Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Jacob Druckman Prize from the Aspen Music Festival, First Prize in the ASCAP/SCI National Student Commission Competition, American Modern Ensemble Composition Competition, Leonard Bernstein Fellowship to the Tanglewood Music Center, American Composers Orchestra Underwood New Music Readings, Brian Israel Prize from the New York Federation of Music Clubs, Dean’s Prize from Indiana University, and the Abraham Beekman Cox Prize from Yale.
Nathan is a currently a doctoral student at Cornell University where he studies with Steven Stucky, Roberto Sierra and Kevin Ernste. He has studied at Indiana University (M.M.), Yale College (B.A.), and The Juilliard School Pre-College Division and has received fellowships to the Tanglewood Music Center, Aspen Music Festival and the Wellesley Composers Conference and participated in the Aldeburgh Music Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme. His past teachers include Kathryn Alexander, Claude Baker, Jeffery Hass, Sven-David Sandström, Ira Taxin and George Tsontakis.
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