Nathan Davis

Nathan Davis "writes music that deals deftly and poetically with timbre and sonority" (NYTimes). His opera/ballet "Hagoromo" premiered at the BAM Next Wave Festival. Lincoln Center presented “Bells” for ensemble, electronics, and live broadcast to mobile phones. He has received commissions from the International Contemporary Ensemble, Ekmeles, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Ensemble CBarré, Hidejiro Honjoh, American Opera Projects, Tanglewood, Calder Quartet, Yarn/Wire, Steven Schick, Claire Chase, Miller Theatre, and the Ojai Festival. Other performances were presented at the Mostly Mozart Festival, Carnegie Hall, the Park Avenue Armory, The Kitchen, Roulette, Darmstadt, Helsinki Musica Nova, and Acht Brücken Köln. Davis was a Fellow at the Camargo Foundation and the 2018 Aaron Copland Fellow at the Bogliasco Foundation, and he has received awards from Meet The Composer, Fromm Foundation at Harvard, Copland Fund, Jerome Foundation, American Music Center, MATA, and ASCAP. He and Phyllis Chen won an NY Innovative Theater Award for their score to Sylvia Milo's play The Other Mozart, for which Davis also received a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Sound Design. CDs include "Hagoromo", “On the Nature of Thingness” (Independent Music Award for Best Contemporary Classical Album), “The Bright and Hollow Sky”, and "Memory Spaces". An active percussionist, he is a member of ICE and has appeared as a concerto soloist with the Seattle Symphony, Tokyo Symphony, and Nagoya Philharmonic.