Nathan Currier

Nathan Currier (born 1960, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania) is an American composer. Biography Coming from a musical family, Currier is son of composer Marilyn Currier (1931) and brother of composer Sebastian Currier (1959). His principal teachers were David Diamond, Joseph Schwantner, Bernard Rands, Stephen Albert and Frederic Rzewski. He studied at the Juilliard School, where he received the Doctorate in 1989, and also served on their Evening Division faculty over a ten-year period. Starting in 2007 he served for two years as a visiting faculty member at the McIntire Department of Music at the University of Virginia. In 2016 he initiated a concert series called Orchard Circle, with concerts in New York City and Philadelphia. Awards * 2008 International Sackler Prize for Music Composition * 2008-09 Fellowship at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities * 1999 Academy Award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters * 1995-96 Rome Prize for Composition from the American Academy in Rome * 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship * 1993 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship * 1992 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship * 1991 Fromm Foundation Grant * 1991 Charles Ives Fellowship from The A