An "alert and highly musical baritone" (Opera News), Nathaniel Sullivan infuses his work with "impressive strength and precision" (Schmopera), as well as “great eloquence” and "allegiance to both music and words" (ConcertoNet). He has appeared with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and the Alabama Symphony. He has been heard at Tanglewood, Carnegie Hall, and with Apollo’s Fire. A winner of the 2023 Astral Artists National Competition, Nathaniel is the recipient of the Grace B. Jackson Prize for exceptional service at the Tanglewood Music Center.
Pianist Nathaniel LaNasa has been praised for his “stormy lyricism” (The New York Times), his “dark, liquid piano tone” (Classical Music Daily), and his “poise and elegance” (Feast of Music). As winners of the 2019 Joy In Singing International Art Song Competition, Nate and partner, baritone Gregory Feldmann, made their sold-out Carnegie Hall debut in February 2020. He has appeared in song partnerships at the Musée d’Orsay, Royaumont Abbey, the Brooklyn Art Song Society, and the New York Festival of Song. In 2022, Nate took charge of the Festival of Song’s new music series, NYFOS Next, where his presentations of works by living composers at the Rubin Museum have received critical acclaim.
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This concert is made possible, in part, with the generous support of Ridgeway Garden Center, White Plains, and the Morano Group, LLC, Mamaroneck.
An “alert and highly musical baritone” (Opera News), Nathaniel Sullivan infuses his work with “impressive strength and precision” (Schmopera), as well as “great eloquence” and ”allegiance to both music and words” (ConcertoNet). With a particular devotion to the operatic repertoire of the 21st Century, Nathaniel has performed the roles of the King in George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center), the Reporter in the English- language premiere of Ma Hanrui’s Mi 谜 (Jazz at Lincoln Center), Harvey Milk in the world premiere of Stewart Wallace’s Harvey Milk Reimagined (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Opera Parallèle, covered), and Manfred Lewin in Jake Heggie’s Two Remain (Out of Darkness) (Quad City Symphony Orchestra). Nathaniel also performed the role of Jokanaan in Heartbeat Opera’s acclaimed production of Salome, for which Nathaniel was regarded as “somber and appropriately a bit deranged” (New York Times), “Mellifluous” (Classical Voice North America), and “a magnificent actor” (Bachtrack).
In addition to music theatre, Nathaniel engages in many oratorio and concert performances around the USA, including his Carnegie Hall solo debut in 2018 performing Gerald Finzi’s Requiem da Camera “with great eloquence” (ConcertoNet) alongside the NY Choral Society. He has joined the Blanche Moyse Chorale Memorial Orchestra in performances of J. S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor—bringing “natural expressiveness and warmth” to the “Et in Spiritum Sanctum” (Rutland Herald)—as well as numerous concerts featuring the cantatas of Bach—singing with a “warm lyricism” and “expressive presence” (Rutland Herald). Other orchestral highlights include the bass soloist and Jesus in J. S. Bach’s St. John Passion with Abendmusik at First- Plymouth Church, Jesus in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Apollo’s Fire, the bass soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Frank Martin’s Sechs Monologe aus Jedermann with The Orchestra Now, and HK Gruber’s Frankenstein!! with Maestro James Bagwell. For this performance, Nathaniel was regarded as “ebullient” and “a marvelous actor” (ConcertoNet), putting on “a virtuoso show in the part” (The Berkshire Eagle).
Nathaniel also takes great interest in the art song and chamber music repertoires, with a particular focus on recently composed works. Notable chamber music premieres include Matthew Greenbaum’s Crossing Brooklyn Ferry with the acclaimed Momenta Quartet, Oliver Leith’s Dream Horse with conductor Thomas Adès, two works by Joshua Groffman and Lawrence Kramer with the Contemporaneous ensemble at Carnegie Hall, and Songs of the Earth with members of the Albany Symphony. As an avid recitalist, Nathaniel has appeared with presenters across the Americas, including with the Yellow Barn Summer Festival (Vermont), the Brooklyn Art Song Society (New York), Chamber Music Quad Cities (Iowa), the Riverview Chamber Series (New York), Downtown Music at Grace (White Plains), and Piano Lunaire (Toronto).
Nathaniel was one of seven winners of the 2023 Astral Artists National Competition. Additional awards and recognitions include the Grace B. Jackson Prize for exceptional service at the Tanglewood Music Center (2019); Third Place in the Washington International Competition (2023), in the Orpheus Vocal Competition (2019), and in the Lyndon Woodside Oratorio Solo Competition (2019); and First Place in the NATS National Musical Theatre Auditions (2018). He holds degrees in vocal performance from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (BM) and the Bard College Conservatory of Music (MM), and has been a Vocal Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center (2018-19) and at the Ravinia Steans Music Institute (2023), a Gerdine Young Artist at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (2022), and a participant in the Yellow Barn Summer Festival (2025-26). During the COVID-19 shutdown, Nathaniel conceived and self-produced the Pandemigram Project, raising over $7,500 for 43 different charitable organizations. Nathaniel is currently based in New York City. Connect with him at nathanielsullivan.com.
Pianist Nathaniel LaNasa discovers fresh possibilities of sonority, gesture, and storytelling in music — especially in music being written NOW. In early 2022, Nate played sixty performances of Ricky Ian Gordon’s new opera for two pianos, Intimate Apparel, at Lincoln Center Theater; the opera was subsequently broadcast on PBS Great Performances. He returned for LCT’s 2025-26 Amahl and the Night Visitors with Joyce Didonato. An enthusiastic advocate for new opera, Nate has workshopped new material by Huang Ruo, Herschel Garfein, Mark Adamo, and Missy Mazzoli at Chautauqua Opera and the Metropolitan Opera. He prepared the premiere of Gabriel Jenks’s Desire at Columbia’s Miller Theatre, and William Antoniou’s Anathema at National Sawdust. Nate has also premiered works for quarter-tone pianos by Dimitri Tymoczko at Princeton, made first recordings of chamber works by Tobias Picker for Tzadik, and appeared in a new off-Broadway play about music students. A consummate collaborator, he has been praised for his “stormy lyricism” (The New York Times), his “dark, liquid piano tone” (Classical Music Daily), and his “poise and elegance” (Feast of Music). As winners of the 2019 Joy In Singing International Art Song Competition, Nate and partner baritone Gregory Feldmann made their sold-out Carnegie Hall debut in February 2020. Nate also frequently partners with vocalist Lucy Dhegrae; they have performed together in the candlelit crypt of the Church of the Intercession, as part of the Resonant Bodies Festival, and at the American Music Festival (Albany Symphony). He’s also appeared in song partnerships at the Musée d’Orsay, Royaumont Abbey, Brooklyn Art Song Society, and New York Festival of Song. In 2022, Nate took charge of New York Festival of Song’s new music series, NYFOS Next, presenting recitals of songs by living composers at the Rubin Museum; for which he has received critical acclaim for his “artfully constructed” programs and his “exquisite” playing.
Nate has appeared with diverse artists including Leona Mitchell, Will Liverman, Amy Owens, Kearstin Piper Brown, Sharon Harms, Robin Steitz, and Blythe Gaissert. Works written for him include Tyler Harrison’s piano concerto; songs by Shawn Jaeger, Molly Joyce, and Iván Rodriguez; and solo pieces by Matthew Ricketts, Nate Wooley, and Timothy Maksimuk. Further premieres include works by Timo Andres, Jack Perla, Iain Bell, and Christopher Trapani.
His solo projects include “Memory Prosthetic,” a recital/exhibition which explores the mechanics and aesthetics of music notation by re-notating Bach’s Goldberg Variations as a series of graphic scores, which are projected during live performance. His concerto appearances include Berg’s Kammerkonzert with TACTUS, John Cage’s Piano Concerto with New Juilliard Ensemble, Rachmaninoff’s second concerto with Bravura Philharmonic, and concerti by Mendelssohn, Bach, Mozart, Lyapunov, and Beethoven with New York ensembles.
Nate’s NYC credits include Alice Tully Hall, MoMA, the Morgan Library, and (le) Poisson Rouge. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music, and was a 2018 fellow at Tanglewood. Nate maintains a small teaching studio of professional and semiprofessional pianists in New York City.