Descriptions of the Moon [2010]

Slee Sinfonietta
Daniel Bassin, conductor

My Hands Are Empty [2011]

Wooden Cities:

Christopher Culp, clarinet
Evan Courtin, violin
T.J. Bordin, cello
Michael McNeill, piano

Halve Time (quartet after Zeno) [2012]

a refrain One keeps playing year after year, concerning the nature of things as they are [2011/13]

Tammy Coil, mezzo soprano
Henrik Heide, alto flute
ChoEun Lee, piano

Text by Wallace Stevens

been cold a long time

Live recording by Oerknal! new music ensemble.
Gregory Charette, conductor

Breather

Setting of "L'infinito" by Giacomo Leopardi. 

Live recording by the SUNY Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players.

come il vento tra queste piante

Nathan Heidelberger composes diverse instrumental and vocal music. Currently a Presidential Fellow and PhD candidate at the University at Buffalo, Nathan also holds undergraduate degrees in Composition and English from Oberlin College and Conservatory, where he was awarded the Walter E. Aschaffenburg Composition Prize. His primary teachers have included David Felder, Lewis Nielson, and Richard Carrick.

Nathan was a composition fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center in summer of 2013 and at the Aspen Music Festival in the summer of 2012. He has also participated in the Copland House CULTIVATE Institute, June in Buffalo, and a residency at the Banff Centre. His music has been performed by such groups as the New Fromm Players, Ensemble Court Circuit, Ensemble Linea, Norbotten NEO, the Slee Sinfonietta, and the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble. His composition Of songs for soprano and string quartet was awarded the 2010 Frank Robert Abel Prize from the University of Louisville.

Sometimes a pianist and a horn player, Nathan focuses on performing the contemporary repertoire. He is a founding member of Wooden Cities, an ensemble committed to introducing new music to audiences throughout Western New York. As an undergrad, he worked closely with Helmut Lachenmann during the composer’s 2008 residency at Oberlin to prepare his solo piano works Echo Andante and Ein Kinderpsiel.


Nathan Heidelberger

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