Composing Music: The Creative Process of Eric Nathan

Composing Music: The Creative Process of Eric Nathan

Two sessions:
July 28 and 29 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
at Berkshire Community College

In-person only.

Composer and Brown Associate Professor of Music Eric Nathan will discuss his creative process as a composer and will take the class through the fascinating process of how his works come to be – from their initial inspiration, to their composition, rehearsals and then premieres. Nathan will discuss his music over two sessions – one devoted to orchestral music and the other to chamber music. Come to learn and appreciate this wonderful music and talent.

Eric Nathan’s (b. 1983) music has been called “as diverse as it is arresting” with a “constant vein of ingenuity and expressive depth” (San Francisco Chronicle), and “thoughtful and inventive” (The New Yorker). A 2013 Rome Prize Fellow and 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, Nathan has garnered acclaim internationally through performances by Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Scharoun Ensemble Berlin, Dawn Upshaw, Jennifer Koh, Stefan Jackiw, and Gloria Cheng. His music has been featured at the New York Philharmonic’s 2014 and 2016 Biennials, Carnegie Hall, and the Aldeburgh, Tanglewood, and Aspen festivals. Recent projects include three commissions from the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Opening (2021), cocommissioned by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation at the Library of Congress, was premiered by the MSO and broadcast nationally on PBS. He has received commissions from the New York Philharmonic, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Barlow Endowment, Fromm Music Foundation, Tanglewood Music Center, and Aspen Music Festival, and has been honored with a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship and Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Nathan has completed residencies at Yellow Barn, Copland House, and American Academy in Rome, and is a 2022 Civitella Ranieri Foundation fellow. Nathan’s most recent album, Some Favored Nook, was released in 2023 on New Focus Recordings. He serves as Associate Professor of Music at Brown University and is currently the Artistic Director of Collage New Music, a Boston’s oldest contemporary music ensemble, now in its 52nd season, as well as Composerin-Residence with the New England Philharmonic. He received his doctorate from Cornell.

Cost: $30 for OLLI at BCC members,
           $35 for non-members

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