NATHANIEL BAKER took up the piano at age 7. Since then, he has studied with Benita Rose, Margarita Nuller and Luiz de Moura-Castro and has participated in master classes with Paul Badura-Skoda, Diane Andersen, Dmitry Rachmanov, Ludovica Mosca, Watson Morrison and Adawagin Pratt, among others.
Nathaniel has performed throughout New England and in Spain and Portugal. During his high school years he won numerous local competitions, including the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Youth Orchestra's Victor Norman Competition(1st place in 2002, 3rd place in 2001), the Connecticut State Music Teachers' Association competition(Winners' Circle, 1998-2002), the Windham Regional Arts Council competition (1st place 1997-2002) and the Hartt Honors Recital (top scorer 2002, 2003).
He has also accompanied various local musical theater productions of Annie, Oklahoma! Bye, Bye Birdie, Annie Get Your Gun, The Sound of Music and Nuncrackers; has provided rehearsal accompaniment for the Connecticut Lyric Opera's Faust, Rigoletto, Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, Romeo and Juliet, Hansel and Gretel, La Boheme, and Die Fledermaus. He has been Music Director for productions of The Last Five Years and Smoky Joe's Cafe.
Presently Nathaniel studies Piano Performance and Music Theory at the Hartt School, is Music Director at the First Congregational Church of Canterbury and rehearsal accompanist of the New Britain Chorale.