Nathaniel Parks is a Baltimore based composer and singer whose work has become increasingly obsessed with vulnerability and taking a microscopic look at the myriad ways people relate to each other. Nathaniel’s music has been performed around the country by ensembles such as Confluss, Bergamot Quartet, and the Peabody Conservatory Chamber Vocal Ensembles. It has been presented at numerous festivals and conferences including the Florida State University Festival of New Music (2024), New Music on the Point (2023), Walden’s Creative Musicians Retreat (2022), the Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference (2017), and the Society of Composers, Inc. Region VI Conference (2018). He has received a fellowship from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (2023). Nathaniel received third prize in the Cantori New York Score Competition (2024), was the recipient of the Otto Ortmann Award in Composition (2020), and was a semifinalist for the American Prize in Choral Composition – Student Division (2018). He currently serves as an Adjunct Professor in Music Composition at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina.
As a singer, Nathaniel possesses a deep affinity for choral music and has served many choirs both on the stage and behind the scenes. He is currently the Director of Operations for the Washington Master Chorale, a staff tenor at Grace and Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church in Baltimore, and was selected as a tenor vocal fellow for the Baltimore Choral Arts Society’s 2021–2022 season.
Nathaniel holds an MM in Composition from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, and a BM in Music Composition from Gardner-Webb University. His primary teachers include Christopher Cerrone, Michael Hersch, Bruce Moser, and Matt Whitfield.