Nathan Currier is a composer. His works have been performed at prestigious venues, from David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center to the Philharmonie in Berlin. He has been published by Theodore Presser and has received accolades and awards such as the Rome Prize, Guggenheim, and American Academy of Arts & Letters’ Academy Award. Other grants and awards he has received include the International Barlow Prize, International Sackler Prize, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Fromm Foundation, Charles Ives Prize and ASCAP Prizes, as well as a Fulbright Fellowship.
Currier studied at Juilliard, where he received a Doctorate, and at Peabody, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in piano. He was the Leonard Bernstein Fellow in composition at Tanglewood, studied piano with Leon Fleisher among others, and received a Diploma with First Prize from the Royal Conservatory of Belgium. His primary composition teachers were Joseph Schwantner, Bernard Rands, Steven Albert, David Diamond, and Frederic Rzweski.