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Raised in Larchmont, New
York, Nathaniel Lew has been singing seriously since the
age of twelve, when he sang the treble solos in Leonard
Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and Benjamin
Britten's Ceremony of Carols with the Juilliard
Pre-College Chorus. His voice then changed, but,
undaunted, he went on to sing tenor with the Yale Glee
Club, the Choir of Gonville and Caius College,
Cambridge, and the UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus,
incidentally picking up degrees from the same
institutions. In a decade spent in the San Francisco Bay
Area, he sang with the Philharmonia Chorale and Volti. He also served as
director of Ars Subtilior Medieval Vocal Ensemble, Vox
Populi Renaissance Vocal Ensemble, the UC Berkeley
Chorus, the Chorus of Festival Opera of Walnut Creek,
and the Choir of Montclair Presbyterian Church in
Oakland.
Nathaniel holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from UC Berkeley.
His research focuses on twentieth-century British music,
a topic on which he has published articles and presented
papers at national and international conferences. He is currently
Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Saint Michael's
College in Colchester, Vermont, where he teaches music
history, music theory and humanities. As director of the College's
choral program, he has commissioned a series of choral
compositions, including a major new work by Terry Riley. |
