Works by Eric Nathan (b. 1983) have been performed throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, the Netherlands, South Korea, and Japan. He has received commissions from the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra of South Korea, the Composers Conference and Chamber Music Center of Wellesley College, ASCAP/Society of Composers Inc., the Atlantic Coast Conference Band Directors Association and for the Indiana University New Music Ensemble. Eric’s music has been featured on NPR’s “From the Top†as well as at the music festivals of Aspen, Ball State University, CCM Music07, the Composers Conference at Wellesley College, the Midwest Composers Symposium, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts, among others. Eric’s “Cantus†for trumpet and electronics is recorded on trumpeter John Adler’s CD “Confronting Inertia,†released in October 2009 on Origin Classical Records.
Nathan’s music has been performed by orchestras including the American Composers Orchestra (in their new-music reading sessions), Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra of South Korea, Juilliard Pre-College Symphony, Yale Symphony Orchestra, University of Maryland Repertoire Orchestra; ensembles such as the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Damocles Trio, Indiana University New Music Ensemble, SUNY Purchase Contemporary Ensemble, Syracuse Society for New Music. His wind ensemble works have been performed by the Cornell Wind Symphony, Indiana University Symphonic Band, Keene State College Concert Band, University of Maryland Wind Ensemble, Yale Concert Band, Nishi High School Band (Japan).
Recent awards and honors include the Aspen Music Festival and School’s Jacob Druckman Prize (2010), the American Composers Orchestra Underwood New Music Readings (2009), William Schuman Prize in the B.M.I Student Composer Awards (2008), an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award (2008), First Prize in the 2008 SCI/ASCAP National Student Commission Competition, the Brian M. Israel Prize from the New York Federation of Music Clubs (2007), Second Prize in the 2007 NACUSA Young Composer Competition, the New York Art Ensemble Young Composer Competition (2005), the Dean's Prize from Indiana University, the Abraham Beekman Cox and Beekman Cannon Friends of Music Prizes from Yale College, and a Susan and Ford Schumann Fellowship to the Aspen Music Festival and School.
Nathan is currently a doctoral composition student at Cornell University where he studies with Steven Stucky, Roberto Sierra and Kevin Ernste. He received his Master of Music at Indiana University, Bachelor of Arts at Yale College, and a diploma from the Juilliard School Pre-College Division. His past teachers include Kathryn Alexander, Claude Baker, Allan Dean, John Halle, Jeffrey Hass, Sven-David Sandström, Matthew Suttor, Ira Taxin. He has also worked with John Harbison, Christopher Rouse and George Tsontakis at the Aspen Music Festival and School, Mario Davidovsky at the Wellesley Composers Conference, and performed as a trumpeter with the Boston University Tanglewood Institute.
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