NATHAN SCHRAM
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Hailed by the New York Times as an “elegant soloist” with a sound “devotional with its liquid intensity,” Nathan Schram is a Brooklyn-based composer, arranger and violist of the Attacca Quartet. Working with many of today’s great composers he has premiered music by Steve Reich, Nico Muhly, Timo Andres, Brooks Frederickson, Elliot Cole and others. He is a founding member of the string trio Speed Bump, an ensemble devoted to improvisation and performing their own compositions which recently released their debut album, Wedding Music. Nathan is also a violist in the Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall, Decoda. Nathan has collaborated with many of the great artists of today including Björk, Itzhak Perlman, Becca Stevens, Gabriel Kahane, Gil Kalish, Simon Rattle, Phil Setzer, Joshua Bell, and others.
Apart from performing, Nathan is the Founding Director of Musicambia, a New York based initiative establishing a network of music conservatories within prisons and jails in the United States. Musicambia currently runs a music conservatory in Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York. In addition to their work in the U.S., Musicambia has collaborated with projects in Venezuela and Scotland. Nathan is an Alumnus of Carnegie Hall and Juilliard’s Ensemble ACJW. As an ACJW Fellow, Nathan participated in frequent chamber music performances throughout the city’s leading chamber music venues such as Carnegie Hall, Le Poisson Rouge, Lincoln Center, and WQXR’s Greene Space. In addition to chamber music performances Nathan partnered with Elementary School PS75k in Bushwick, Brooklyn as the resident teaching artist. His experience as a teaching artist and ACJW fellow was documented by radio journalist Jeff Lunden as a 2-year, four-part series for NPR’s Weekend Edition. Nathan is a prizewinner of the 2007 Primrose International Viola competition, the 2006 Corpus Christi Concerto Competition and a First Prize winner of the 2008 ASTA National Solo Competition. He studied at Indiana University with Alan de Veritch and at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain with Diemut Poppen and Yuval Gotlibovich. Nathan’s arrangements and compositions have been heard in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Le Poisson Rouge, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As an athlete and lover of the outdoors Nathan was a cyclist on the School of Fine Arts (SoFA) Cycling team for Indiana University’s Annual Little 500. He has also spent 6-weeks experiencing the USA on a self-contained bicycle journey from Bloomington, Indiana to San Francisco, California. On his 25th birthday he completed the Ottowa Marathon. Nathan is a proud and die-hard follower of the Atlético de Madrid Club de Fútbol. |
