Nathan Williamson

Nathan has also written Cabaret Songs for soprano Emilie Bregéon, and Homecoming for US-based violinist Piotr Szewczyk, performed at the Santa Fe and Spoleto Festivals, as well as on a tour of Germany. Natipur, a collaboration with Sarangi and Tabla players Aruna Narayan and Hanif Khan and Endymion, was heard at LSO St Luke’s, The Gate, Cardiff and Turner Sims Concert Hall. In 2005 a residency at the Deer Valley Festival, for which he composed a String Quartet 2005 was commissioned for a residency at the Deer Valley Festival, Utah, premiered by the TinAlley Quartet and a major orchestral work, As Chants Would Have It..., was commissioned by the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra of Korea and Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra, premiered under Shink Hahm.

2011 will see a major new Sonata for cello and piano, commissioned by a private sponsor for cellist Charles Watt, as well as songs for James Gilchrist and Alison Nicholls for first performance at the Southwold Concert Series in July, and the completion of A Fountain Sealed for production in 2012. Nathan has also been commissioned works for the highly acclaimed NOW ensemble of New York, violinist David Chivers (for his debut CD) and a major work for piano trio.

Nathan’s work on the concert platform has resulted in collaborations with many of the leading artists of his generation: Arisa Fujita, Nadia Wijzenbeek, Ylvali Zilliacus, Max Baillie, Marie Macleod, Guy Johnston, Emilie Bregeon, Njabulo Madlala, and the Allegri, Cavaleri, and Sacconi Quartets. He has performed at many prestigious venues, including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Lucerne Concert Hall, Bolzano Festival, Purcell Room, St John’s Smith’s Square, St Martin’s in the Fields, Palais du Residence Brussels, and the Atrium du Magne Paris.

The coming year will see an increasing number of solo recitals and the release of his first solo CD, as well as performances with Guy Johnston, Alexander Somov, the Carducci String Quartet, a cycle of Mozart Sonatas for piano and violin with Nadia Wijzenbeek, recitals combining South African folk music and Western repertoire with baritone Njabulo Madlala, and further recitals with the Sacconi Quartet.

Nathan lives in the town of Southwold, on the Suffolk coast. He founded the new Southwold Concert Series there in 2008 with the generous support of local businesses Spring Design and Advertising and Adnams. He teaches harmony, ear-training and music history at the Yehudi Menuhin School.

Nathan is a regular performer on the ‘Tiny Wurlitzer’ at Southwold’s exquisite and diminutive Electric Picture Palace, as well as often playing in music and singing groups at the local church of St Edmund. He is on the committee of the unique and rather eccentric Southwold Model Yacht Regattas, held every year since the late 1800s, and he and his wife, Daisy, a music therapist, love nothing more than fishing, walking, sailing and generally anything else requiring large amounts of time in the beautiful Suffolk countryside around their home.