Nathan Fletcher (b. 1992) seeks to create music that is engaging,                     emotionally resonant and broadly appealing. His music has been performed                   throughout the country, at venues and events such as Opera America’s National                       Opera Center in New York; the New York Festival of Song’s 2016 NYFOS Next                           Festival; the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, CT; Providence                       College in Rhode Island; the Zoellner Arts Center in Bethlehem, PA; New York                         Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C.; the 2012 American Choral                   Directors Association’s (ACDA) National Symposium on American Choral Music in                   Washington, D.C.; and the 2015  ACDA National Conference in Salt Lake City. 

In 2015 and 2016, Nathan was named a finalist in the ASCAP Foundation                         Morton Gould Young Composer Awards; he was also a finalist in the American                         Choral Directors Association's 2014 Raymond W. Brock Student Composition                 Competition. 

A versatile musician, Nathan has been enriched by a diverse range of                       experiences and by listening to all sorts of music; his work is thus influenced by a                               variety of styles and genres. Recently, he has gotten into arranging, and his                         version of Michel Legrand’s classic tune, “Watch What Happens,” was premiered                     by the UConn Jazz Lab Band under the direction of John Mastroianni in April                           2015. 

Having grown up in a musical family, Nathan began his formal musical                       training in the Anglican choral tradition at the age of eight, when he joined the                             Choir of Men and Boys at Trinity Church on the Green in New Haven. The                             following year he enrolled at Saint Thomas Choir School, an independent                     boarding school in New York City, where he sang in the Choir of Men and Boys at                                 Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue from 2002-2006, graduating in 2007. Nathan                     went on to earn his Bachelor of Music degree summa cum laude from the                           University of Connecticut , where he studied composition with Kenneth Fuchs and                     voice with Gregory Zavracky . 

Nathan has remained active as a singer; opera chorus credits include                     Offenbach’s La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein and Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with                   UConn Opera Theatre, as well as Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at the 2014                         Connecticut Early Music Festival. Sought after for his vocal sensitivity, high-level                     musicianship and extensive experience in liturgical and ensemble singing,                 Nathan has held tenor substitute and section leader positions at numerous                     churches in Connecticut and New York. He is currently a professional chorister at                         Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York. 

Nathan is a member of ASCAP, and is currently earning his Master of Music                           degree in composition at Mannes School of Music in New York, where he studies                           with Lowell Liebermann. 

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