Nathan Currier currently maintains a private teaching practice in New York City/New Jersey, where he is available for lessons in piano, theory, orchestration and composition.
Previously, he taught at Juilliard for over a decade, served on the music faculty of the University of Virginia from 2007-2009, and was on the piano faculty of Sweet Briar College (Amherst, Virginia) during the same period.
Awards:
1999 Academy Award, American Academy of Arts & Letters
1995-1996 Rome Prize
1993 Guggenheim Fellowship
1993 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Other awards:
2008 International Sackler Prize for Music Composition
2008 (08/09) Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Fellowship
1992 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
1991 Charles Ives Fellowship, American Academy of Arts & Letters
1991 Fromm Foundation Grant
1987-1988 Fulbright Grant
1987 The Leonard Bernstein Fellowship at Tanglewood
1987 Barlow International Prize in Composition
1990 International Olympia Composition Competition Finalist
1988, 1989 ASCAP Awards to Young Composers
1989 Juilliard Orchestral Composition Prize
1984 International Piano Recording Competition, Silver Medal
Past Teaching:
2007-2009 University of Virginia, Visiting Faculty
1991-2002 The Juilliard School, Faculty, Evening Division and MAP Program
Education:
1989 DMA, Composition: The Juilliard School
1986 MM: The Juilliard School
1988 Diploma, with 1st Prize: The Royal Conservatory of Belgium, Liège
1984 BM: The Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University
1978-1979 The New England Conservatory
1977-1978 Rhode Island College (early admissions program)
1987 Tanglewood Institute
1980, 1975 Aspen Festival
Publisher: Theodore Presser Co.
Discography:
Naxos (CD 8.559903) Hush Cries the Lamb, Patrick Yim, Kiu Tung Poon
Chandos Records, CD 9395,1995: A Sambuca Sonata
New World Records (originally CRI, CD 873, 2001): From the Grotto, includes From the Grotto and A Musical Banquet, Peabody Trio
Crystal Records, CD743, 1994: Adagio and Variations,
the Verdehr Trio
Other Publications:
Ecomusicology Newsletter (musicology)
Huffington Post (journalism)
MIT Press (science)
Residency Fellowships:
1997 Bellagio Center, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy
2012, 2013 The Hermitage, Florida
2010 Blue Mountain Center, New York
2011 Djerassi Residency Program, California
1998 Carmargo Foundation, Cassis, France
1990, 1994, 1997, 1998,
2006, 2008, 2009, 2011 MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire
1987 Millay Colony, New York
2006 Ragdale Foundation, Illinois
1987 Tanglewood Music Center, Massachusetts
2003 Ucross Foundation, Wyoming
1987, 1989, 1992, 1995,
1997, 1998, 2000, 2001,
2002, 2003, 2005, 2006,
2013, 2014, 2015 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
1986, 1987, 1989, 1991,
1993, 1995,1998, 2001,
2003, 2005, 2009, 2012 Yaddo Colony, New York
Principal Composition Teachers:
Steven Albert
David Diamond
Bernard Rands
Frederic Rzewski
Joseph Schwantner
Other Composition Studies:
George Perle
Walter Zimmerman
Thomas McKinley
Principal Piano Teachers:
Leon Fleisher
Yoriko Takahashi
Gabriel Chodos
Judith Lynn Stillman
Julio Esteban
Other piano studies with:
Dominique Weber
Aube Tzerko
Samuel Lipman
Doctoral studies:
Richard French
Theoretical studies:
Jacques-Louis Monod
Michael Cjajkowski
Steven Albert
Solfège:
Judith Lang Zaimont
Martha Cox